When ingested, the fruit is reportedly “pleasantly sweet” at first, with a subsequent “strange peppery feeling … gradually progress[ing] to a burning, tearing sensation and tightness of the throat.” Symptoms continue to worsen until the patient can “barely swallow solid food because of the excruciating pain and the feeling of a huge obstructing pharyngeal lump.”
Human: I outsmarted every plant with this MO; no toxic plant can defeat me.
Manchineel Tree: Challenge accepted.
“Challenge accepted”
-Unknown person