Close-up of plants '3 leaves take a human life'

Referring to the name 'leaf finger', every thought immediately comes from the word 'suicide', because in the past, Vietnam used to show many films that ethnic people use this leaf to commit suicide and real life as well.

Seeing the "phượt" group of guests borrow baskets to go to the hills to pick up wild vegetables, the Mong Cu Van Thuy farmer, Green Island owner (Thung Nai commune, Cao Phong district, Hoa Binh province) immediately asked: "Does anyone in the group know Is the leaf finger? ". The group shook their heads in bewilderment, Mr. Thuy said, only, let me guide. Chewing some leaves wrong is dead!

Finger leaves are as big as 3 fingers.

Mr. Thuy said, everyone knows the leaves in the Northwest . Children who walk, adults have taught to distinguish finger leaves so as not to be mistakenly eaten. Only goats that eat leaves with fingers do not die, other animals do not eat, and humans, just need to eat three fingers, not need a hand to die.

This type of tree is also known as the school section (the section is broken, the field is gut). It is thought that drinking this taste will break the intestine and die.

Cool leaves should grow throughout the trees.

This branch of a finger leaves enough toxins to kill two people.

In terms of characteristics, this is a creeping wire, the body and branches are hairless, the body is slightly warped. The leaves are opposite, ovoid oblong, slightly shaped, with pointed tips, pointed stalks, intact edges, smooth shadows, 7-12cm long, 2.5-5.5cm wide. Flowers grow in clusters at the ends of branches or in the leaves. Yellow petals. The fruit is a capsule, tapered brown, 1cm long, 0.5cm wide. Small seeds, around the edges, have a light brown edge.

Toxic substances lie most in young leaves.

Leafy tree distribution is quite common in the mountainous areas of our country. Mountainous provinces such as Hoa Binh, Lao Cai, Lang Son and Tuyen Quang have. In addition, some tropical and Asian tropical countries also have this poisonous tree. Particularly in China, in addition to being used to poison, people often use roots and sell at pharmacies to cure leprosy or fungi in hair.

Herbaceous leafy plants, smaller than chopsticks and can crawl up to 12 meters long.

Flower fingerlings are yellow, quite beautiful, like natural flowers.

"Everybody in the mountains knows leaf toes, it grows everywhere. Except for suicide attempts to deliberately eat finger leaves, we are not mistaken. You are in lowland areas, most do not know this type of leaves, so anyone who came to the island to have fun, I also guided my friends to see the fingerlings to know and distinguish, because it is easy to mix with wild vegetables growing in the mountains " - Mr. Thuy said.