Excoecaria

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Excoecaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Euphorbioideae
Tribe: Hippomaneae
Subtribe: Hippomaninae
Genus: Excoecaria
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Excoecaria is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae, comprising about 40 species. The genus is native to the Old World Tropics.

The milky sap of Excoecaria agallocha, also known as milky mangrove, blind-your-eye mangrove and river poison tree, is poisonous. Contact with skin can cause irritation and rapid blistering; contact with eyes will result in temporary blindness. It is distributed in Australia from northern New South Wales, along the northern coastline around to Western Australia. In 2007 was discovered on the Gujarat Coast of India.[1].

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  1. ^ Shukla, S. Valsad now home to new mangrove species Retrieved on 19 March 2007.

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