Dangerous Trees That Should Never Be Touched

Nimbian Bottle Tree

Bauple58, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Also called the “bottle tree”, it is a species of plant included in the genus Pachypodium. 

This species can be either a shrub or a tree up to 6 meters tall and is characterized by the thick bottle-shaped trunk, which is almost branchless until the top. The branches are few and covered by slender thorns up to 30 cm long. But what makes it dangerous?

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