![TIL of the Gympie Gympie plant, aka “Suicide Tree”: with a sting that feels like “being burned by acid and electrocuted” one man reportedly shot himself after using a leaf to wipe TIL of the Gympie Gympie plant, aka “Suicide Tree”: with a sting that feels like “being burned by acid and electrocuted” one man reportedly shot himself after using a leaf to wipe](https://external-preview.redd.it/GzqeLYh6qvyiNV40wXngPvDSR55j_DQFqzJH_RTN7N4.jpg?auto=webp&s=30a547bcad74f755ddeae7e8067a95915dbadbeb)
TIL of the Gympie Gympie plant, aka “Suicide Tree”: with a sting that feels like “being burned by acid and electrocuted” one man reportedly shot himself after using a leaf to wipe
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The Australian Gympie-Gympie stinging tree: So painful an "officer [shot] himself after using a stinging-tree leaf for “toilet purposes”." It's official: Everything in Australia wants to kill you. : r/WTF
![The Gympie-Gympie stinging tree in Australia is of the most venomous plants in the world. The sting can cause months of horrific pain "like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at The Gympie-Gympie stinging tree in Australia is of the most venomous plants in the world. The sting can cause months of horrific pain "like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at](https://preview.redd.it/qcyr4ufarvq71.jpg?auto=webp&s=057aa7b956b4f219f58e3110bd9b2fd9918490a5)
The Gympie-Gympie stinging tree in Australia is of the most venomous plants in the world. The sting can cause months of horrific pain "like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at
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What is gympie-gympie: the poisonous plant whose painful sting can last for years and drive people to suicide
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