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Fish Poison Tree

Barringtonia asiatica

Least concern

Fish Poison Tree
Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) · Public domain

Overview

Barringtonia asiatica, known variously as fish poison tree, putat and beach Barringtonia among other names, is a species of plants in the brazil nut family Lecythidaceae. It is native to coastal habitats from Tanzania and Madagascar in the west to tropical Asia, northern Australia, and islands of the western Pacific Ocean. It was described by Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz in 1875 and has a conservation status of least concern. It has been used by a number of traditional cultures as a fish poison.

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  1. Wikipedia (EN): Barringtonia asiatica — CC BY-SA 4.0