oh killer trees ....
In 1981, President Ronald Reagan claimed that trees produce more air pollution than automobiles, fueling a spate of jokes about “killer trees.
the damp condition on St Helena led (ha!) to reduction of the green arsenic coloured wallpaper to arsine AsH3 - no really
and that was what he was said to have inhaled
oj there was arsenic in Napoleons body BUT it cd have been put there during embalming ( antibacterial even then)
I live near a forest where there are some very nice Italian Cypress. Maybe I'll have a stroll (naughty girl not allowed) down and get a Il bacio della morte issued on Greta :-)
They are right about right tree right place. After the war vast plantations of fir trees were put into the New Forest because it was believed that we would need the wood. The indigenous forest was clear felled. The fir plantations are like dead areas. they support very little indigenous wildlife of any kind, just the invader grey squirrels who eat the cones, and the ground is dry as dust. Gradually the plantations are being returned to the way they were, but its a massive job.