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    The manchineel tree (Hippomane mancinella) is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae). Its native range stretches from tropical...
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    Hippomanes (greek ἱππομανές) are brownish or olive-greenish, elastic formations that arise physiologically in mares during pregnancy. The up to fist-sized...
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    Hippomane is a genus of plants in the Euphorbiaceae described by Linnaeus in 1753. It is native to the West Indies, Central America, Mexico, Florida,...
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    urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:227503-2 Tropicos: 12802196 WFO: wfo-0000302804 Hippomane glandulosa Wikidata: Q21874525 CoL: 3M27S GBIF: 3071063 GRIN: 407088 IPNI:...
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    Lanka, China Polyrhachis hippomanes hippomanes Smith, F., 1861 – Borneo, Sulawesi, India, Thailand "Polyrhachis hippomanes – Facts". AntWeb. Retrieved...
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    Hippomane spinosa is a plant species in the family Euphorbiaceae. It was described by Linnaeus in 1753. In Haitian Creole, the plant is known as pomme...
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  • Hippomane horrida is a plant species in the Euphorbiaceae first described for science in 1929. It is endemic to Barahona Province in the Dominican Republic...
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    Mexico, and so named because of the abundant groves of native Manzanilla (Hippomane mancinella) trees that were used extensively in the early days of shipbuilding...
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  • la muerte (Spanish: "little apple of death"), manchineel in English (Hippomane mancinella), a tree with apple-like but poisonous fruit Manzanilla olive...
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    An acellular structure known as hippomanes floating in the alantoic liquid of mares, jennies, and cows...
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  • the Caribbean used poisons made from the sap of the manchineel tree (Hippomane mancinella) or sandbox tree (Hura crepitans), both members of the spurge...
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    demon was also blamed for the "hipomane" [sic] or horse's poison (cf. hippomanes, § Rosenkranz mine, Annaberg). Agricola, in his earlier Latin work Bermanus...
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    Drug Overdose, p. 309 at Google Book Search, accessed 12 January 2009 "Hippomane mancinella". Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. United...
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    berries, melons, oranges and milkweed. They have been documented feeding on Hippomane mancinella (poison apple), the endemic guava Psidium galapageium, the...
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    Publications. Friedman, Melissa H.; Andreu, Michael G. (24 November 2015). "Hippomane mancinella, Manchineel". EDIS Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences...
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    plant species include vomitel colorado (Cordia sebestena), manzanillo (Hippomane mancinella) and lirio de costa (Plumeria filifolia). The vegetation in...
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  • myrtifolia Heimia salicifolia Heracleum giganteum Hippobroma longiflora Hippomane mancinella Humulus japonica ~ Japanese hops Humulus lupulus ~ Hops Hyoscyamus...
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    100 different species of plant. They are known to consume manchineel (Hippomane mancinella), a tree species that produces chemicals that are toxic to...
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    love charm from the bark of a tree—it was probably poisonous, like the hippomane manzanilla, or the antiaris toxicaria the deadly upas tree of Java, which...
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  • Pará rubber tree; rubber tree Euphorbiaceae (spurge family) Hippomane: hippomane trees Hippomane mancinella manchineel Euphorbiaceae (spurge family) Manihot:...
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  • species in the genus Harpactirella Heosemys spinosa, a turtle species Hippomane spinosa, a flowering plant species Hormathophylla spinosa, a flowering...
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    myths about the abduction, kidnapping and rape of foreign women. The Hippomanes, a floating structure found in the amniotic fluid of mares, has long been...
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    reference to Vernon's invasion fleet, before the battle. Manzanilla (Hippomane mancinella) fruit are poisonous when eaten, and the sap causes blistering...
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    Parkia pendula Honduras to Bolivia and Brazil Gomphotheres. Manchineel Hippomane mancinella Southern North America and Northern South America Small seeds...
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    constituent of the highly toxic New World tropical manchineel or beach apple, Hippomane mancinella. It is very soluble in most polar organic solvents, as well...
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    hosts of L. crinitus include dead wood from Nerium oleander, Hevea spp., Hippomane spp.,  Quercus spp., Barringtonia spp., Nyssa spp., Salix spp., Rhizophora...
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  • twentieth—through which the fortunes of three men are followed: Manlius Hippomanes, a Roman Gallic aristocrat obsessed with the preservation of Roman civilization...
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    virginicus, Conocarpus erectus, Maytenus phyllanthoides, Manilkara bahamensis, Hippomane mancinella, and Opuntia stricta var. dillenii. This "is an extremely rare...
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    (Mimosa bahamensis), autograph tree (Clusia rosea), manchineel tree (Hippomane mancinella), West Indian mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni), sea grape (Coccoloba...
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    mad if they fed upon it. The Greek name hippomanes was also referenced in the creation of the genus name Hippomane for an extremely toxic genus in the Euphorbiaceae...
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