Iris Cohen schreef
He had the species name spelled slightly wrong, as did numerous other
people.

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Semecarpus venenosus seems to be correct. It was originally published as
Semecarpus venenosa but at some point people got tired at guessing at the
gender of genera and it was decided that all generic names on -carpus (and
the like) were masculine, while all generic names on -carpa (and the like)
were feminine and those on -carpum (and the like) were neuter. Try looking
up names in Podocarpus in sources of varying ages and watch the gender!
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I
was able to deduce the correct spelling, and found some information for
him under a botanical dermatology database.

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I like the initiative to bring such databases on line. Just a pity they are
so much out of data, especially when it comes to plant names
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Sometimes I do this for people out of curiosity.

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Most kind of you ;-)
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I was very curious about the walking palm tree, which is apparently
a bubbe meisse (old wives' tale).
Iris,

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Still not a 100% sure about the walking palms. The internet is quite a
limited resource in many ways.

Semecarpus has quite a reputation for being poisonous, but likely is not the
top contender within the family when it comes to toxicity ?
PvR