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Video: Why you don’t want to touch a Gympie Gympie

Ray Mears takes a closer look at the excrutiatingly painful Gympie-Gympie plant, or giant stinging tree.

More on this topic

• Australia’s most poisonous plants
• Australia’s poisonous plants, ptII
• Gympie Gympie: once stung, never forgotten
• Fact-sheet on the Gympie-Gympie
• Gallery: Gympie-Gympie “stings like hot acid”

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