Sea Mango, Cerbera manghas, Apocynaceae. A Small Evergreen Coastal Tree from Tropical Asia.

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Sea Mango, Cerbera manghas, Apocynaceae. Tropical Asia. A small evergreen coastal tree growing up 12 m tall with fragrant flowers. Cerbera manghas is naturally distributed from the Seychelle Islands in the Indian Ocean eastward to French Polynesia. It occupies coastal habitats and is often associated with mangrove forests. The leaves and the fruits contain the potent cardiac glycoside cerberin, which is extremely poisonous if ingested. People in olden times used the sap of the tree as a poison for animal hunting. The fruit was reportedly eaten to commit suicide in the Marquesas Islands. In Madagascar, the seeds were used in sentence rituals to poison kings and queens. Aka Tanguin, Samanta, Tangena (Madagascar), Leva, Toto, Vasa, Bintaro and Kaduru

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