She once said the tree's sting is so painful it feels like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time. Northern NSW has the giant stinging tree, Dendrocnide excelsa.

Researchers studying a stinging tree from Australia discovered that it uses a neurotoxin similar to that of spiders. The tree produces a painful sting that can last for days or even weeks.

Stinging trees play an important part in the ecology of a rainforest. Many native Australian animals, birds and insects are not bothered by the sting, and happily devour the leaves and fruit.

BRISBANE: Australia is notorious for its venomous spiders, snakes and sea creatures, but researchers have now identified "scorpion-like" toxins secreted by a tree that can cause excruciating pain ...

Australia is famous, among other things, for venomous animals. Its plants, it turns out, are just as hostile. Now, researchers at the University of Queensland have isolated “neurotoxic peptides from ...

Unlike its American and European counterparts, being stung by a dendrocnide tree – which means “stinging tree” – can cause pain that lasts for days – or even weeks.

News Release 26-Jul-2022 Native New Zealand tree puts the sting on pain Researchers are studying toxins from stinging plants to understand pain pathways Peer-Reviewed Publication University of ...

By Harry Clarke-Ezzidio, CNN Sep 17, 2020 Sep 17, 2020Updated Sep 21, 2020 ...