'The worst kind of pain you can imagine' – what it's like to be stung by a stinging tree
Friday, September 28, 2018 - 08:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Stinging trees grow in rainforests throughout Queensland and northern NSW. The most commonly known (and most painful) species is Dendrocnide moroides (Family Urticaceae), first named "gympie bush" by gold miners near the town of Gympie in the 1860s.