Beautiful but extremely poisonous plants - light touches also make you

Looking at the green leaves, the heart shape is so beautiful, but anyone who doubts this species contains a poison with tremendous mental damage.

Undeniably, green trees are the lungs of the Earth when it can give us a fresh air, a point of joyful life.

However, besides modeling beautiful plants, Mother Nature also has scary "children" who look terribly beautiful or beautiful but have the ability to defeat people only need Very light touch.

And the tree we are talking about is the Gympie-gympie - grown mainly in the Northeast of Australia and the Moluccas Islands of Indonesia.

Touching 1s will remember each other all your life .

At first glance, Gympie-gympie is just a harmless bush with a cool green leaf but in fact, it contains a poison that has tremendous mental damage.

When zoomed in, you will find the Gympie-gympie covered with a thick, smooth feather like a tiny needle pointing up and down.

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The hairs on the leaves invade the body, causing you extreme pain.

The "gentle" thought but try to touch it, you'll have to regret it. Why?

That's because the feathers on Gympie-gympie seem to instantly enter the body, releasing a strong neurotoxin - moroidin - that makes you extremely painful.

This pain will really torture the victim when the poison is released. Specifically, within 30 minutes after exposure, you will know what is "torture".

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The leaves are heart-shaped, 12-22cm long, 11-18cm wide and the edges are serrated.

The burning sensation is the first thing you notice. It makes you feel like the skin is covered with hot acid and electric shock is continuous.

The pain will gradually intensify at a higher level, especially around the joints and it will not stop.

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Gympie-gympie also have the ability to release their hairs into the environment.

If the victim has weak resistance, as well as is not handled promptly, he or she may experience neurological shock and death.

More horrifying, the effect of this toxin will last for 2-3 years if you do not remove the hair from the skin completely.

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The fruits of the Gympie-gympie are quite eye-catching, sweet.

However, the danger of this dead tree has not stopped there. According to ecologist Marina Hurley, Gympie-gympie also has the ability to release his hairs into the environment.

Just close and inhale the hair, you will also be sneezing, hives, allergies and nosebleeds . And even if the leaves are dry, they still make people, mammals "poisoned".

Missed the Gympie-gympie - really "dead-not-dead"

There are a lot of stories that have been recorded about cases of accidentally hitting Gympie-gympie.

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Even the branches are full of "toxic feathers".

In 1994, a male named Cyril Bromley unfortunately fell into the tree while doing exercises. At the hospital, the doctors were forced to tie him up on the hospital bed for 3 weeks to prevent Cyril from scratching the swelling himself.

He was treated with many remedies but all were ineffective. It was because he could not bear the pain, he was gone.

Another case was told that there was an officer because he did not know that he accidentally used this Gympie-gympie leaf . toilet paper and then was forced to commit suicide because he could not bear the pain it caused. .

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The sea warned of the danger of Gympie-gympie.

Backward in the past in 1963, Ernie Rider - a man who had been touched by leaves of Gympie-gympie face and body shared: "In the first 2-3 days, I could not bear the pain, the feeling That feeling is like a giant hand clutching my chest.

Wounds get worse in the weeks that followed. The pain lasts for 2 years and relapses every time I take a cold bath.

In the 1960s, this bizarre plant was studied by British forces and Professor Alan Seawright at the University of Queensland (UK) for use in biological weapons.

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This plant was researched by the British army for use in biological weapons.

What to do to get rid of "death pain"?

So far, the treatment when you miss this plant is using diluted hydrochloric acid (ratio 1:10) to apply to the affected skin.

Then you use tape, tweezers to pull poisonous feathers out of your skin before going to the nearest hospital because the more hair you plug in your skin, the more painful the pain will be.