Common name: Gympie-gympie, Stinging Tree
Family: Urticaceae
Synonym(s): <i>Laportea moroides</i>,
<i>Urticastrum moroides</i>
Country of Origin: Australia, Vanuatu, Indonesia
Description: The infamous Gympie-gympie is said to be the most venomous plant in the world; contact with the leaves or stems causes intense and sometimes long-lasting pain.
Uses:
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USDA Zone:
Source: M. Opel
Provenance:
Seeds from Dylan Hannon #12066 (Huntington Gardens) harvested 2014, sown Feb. 2024. Seeds slow to germinate and seedlings tiny and slow at first, growing rapidly and flowering in warm, humid summer weather.
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Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: eurosid I
- Order: Rosales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Urticaceae
- SubFamily:
- Tribe: Urticeae
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