Two new ‘birdcatcher’ trees described from Puerto Rico

Mongabay
Oct 2, 2017, 4:33 am292 pts
From the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, scientists have described two new species of Pisonia trees — a group of notorious “birdcatcher trees” known to produce sticky seeds that can entangle (and sometimes even kill) birds. The two newly described trees have been named Pisonia horneae and Pisonia roqueae…

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