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- From: cl27111@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher Lindsey)
- Subject: Re: Horrible Plants
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:08:37 GMT
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- When I was doing a design project for some condominiums in Key West, I
- remember reading about a tropical plant that was used as an execution device
- by the native Indians before the Spanish came.
- Apparently, the sap from this tree would produce severe caustic burns
- upon contact. What the Indians did to exploit this was to tie their victims
- to the tree before it rained, slash open the trunks, and let the rain wash
- the sap down onto the people's faces...
-
- Ouch.
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- Christopher Lindsey -- Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Univ. of Illinois
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