Antiaris Innoxia
The upas tree. Most exaggerated statements
respecting this plant have passed into history. Its poisonous
influence was said to be so great as not only to destroy all
animal life but even plants could not live within 10 miles of it.
The plant has
no such virulent properties as the above, but, as it
inhabits low valleys in Java where carbonic acid gas escapes from
the crevices in volcanic rocks which frequently proves fatal to
animals, the tree was blamed wrongly. It is, however, possessed of
poisonous juice, which, when dry and mixed with other ingredients,
forms a venomous poison for arrows, and severe effects have been
felt by those who have climbed upon the branches for the purpose
of gathering the flowers.
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