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Metopium toxiferum

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Metopium toxiferum (poisonwood, Florida poisontree, hog gum) is a species of flowering tree in the cashew or sumac family, Anacardiaceae, that is native to the American neotropics. [1]

26 relations: Americas, Amyris, Anacardiaceae, Bahamian dry forests, Caribbean, Carl Linnaeus, Cashew, Eudicots, Florida, Florida Keys, Flowering plant, Ignatz Urban, Manchineel, Metopium, Metopium brownei, Neotropical realm, Plant, Poison oak, Rosids, Sapindales, Sumac, The Bahamas, The Poisonwood Bible, Toxicodendron vernix, Tree, Urushiol.

Americas

The Americas (also collectively called America)"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

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Amyris

Amyris is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae.

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Anacardiaceae

The Anacardiaceae, commonly known as the cashew family or sumac family, are a family of flowering plants, including about 83 genera with about 860 known species.

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Bahamian dry forests

The Bahamian dry forests are a tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion in the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, covering an area of.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

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Cashew

The cashew tree (Anacardium occidentale) is a tropical evergreen tree that produces the cashew seed and the cashew apple.

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Eudicots

The eudicots, Eudicotidae or eudicotyledons are a clade of flowering plants that had been called tricolpates or non-magnoliid dicots by previous authors.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Florida Keys

The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago located off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost portion of the continental United States.

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Flowering plant

The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and c. 295,383 known species.

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Ignatz Urban

Ignatz Urban (7 January 1848 – 7 January 1931) was a German botanist.

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Manchineel

The manchineel tree (Hippomane mancinella) is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae).

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Metopium

Metopium or poisonwood is a genus of flowering plants in the sumac family, Anacardiaceae.

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Metopium brownei

Metopium brownei (also known as chechem, chechen, or black poisonwood) is a species of plant in the Anacardiaceae family.

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Neotropical realm

The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.

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Plant

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.

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Poison oak

Poison oak refers to two plant species in the genus Toxicodendron.

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Rosids

The rosids are members of a large clade (monophyletic group) of flowering plants, containing about 70,000 species, more than a quarter of all angiosperms.

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Sapindales

Sapindales is an order of flowering plants.

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Sumac

Sumac (also spelled sumach, sumaq) (translation, translit), (Mishnaic Hebrew אוֹג.

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The Bahamas

The Bahamas, known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic state within the Lucayan Archipelago.

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The Poisonwood Bible

The Poisonwood Bible (1998), by Barbara Kingsolver, is a bestselling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from the U.S. state of Georgia to the village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo, close to the Kwilu River.

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Toxicodendron vernix

Toxicodendron vernix, commonly known as poison sumac, is a woody shrub or small tree growing to 9 m (30 ft) tall.

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Tree

In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species.

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Urushiol

Urushiol is an oily mixture of organic compounds with allergic properties found in plants of the family Anacardiaceae, especially Toxicodendron spp. (e.g., poison oak, Lacquer Tree, poison ivy, poison sumac) and also in parts of the mango tree.

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Florida poisontree, Hog gum.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metopium_toxiferum

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