Video: Why you don’t want to touch a Gympie Gympie
22 January 2014
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A closer look at one of the world’s most poisonous plants
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”