day and filled with blisters, as if it were burnt to such a degree that I was blind for three days. Nicholas Cresswell, in his journal entry for Friday, September 16, 1774, mentions: The Mangeneel Apple has the smell and appearance of an English Apple, but small, grows on large trees, generally along the Seashore. They are rank poison. I am told that one apple is sufficient to kill 20 people. This poison is of such a malignant nature that a single drop of rain or dew that falls from the tree upon your skin will immediately raise a blister. Neither Fruit or Wood is of any use, that I can learn. In Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera L'Africaine (1865), the heroine Sélika dies by inhaling the perfume of the manchineel tree's blossoms. In the story "The Beckoning Hand", in the 1887 collection of that name by Grant Allen, a manchineel (spelled "manchineal" here) leaf is rolled in a cigarette in an attempt to poison a person. In the film Wind Across the Everglades (1958), a notorious poacher named Cottonmouth (played by Burl Ives) ties a victim to the trunk of a manchineel tree. The tree is recorded as the world's most dangerous tree by Guinness World Records. See also Bahamian dry forests Saba Cape Sable, Florida References External links Useful Links for Neotropical Flowering Plant Identification Hippomaneae Trees of the Caribbean Trees of Central America Trees of Antigua and Barbuda Trees of the Bahamas Trees of Belize Trees of the Cayman Islands Trees of Colombia Trees of Costa Rica Trees of Cuba Trees of Dominica Trees of the Dominican Republic Trees of Haiti Trees of Mexico Trees of Nicaragua Trees of Panama Trees of Puerto Rico Trees of Trinidad and Tobago Trees of Venezuela Flora of the Dutch Caribbean Flora of the Netherlands Antilles Flora of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Biota of Bonaire Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Medicinal plants Poisonous plants