BIRDCATCHER (PISONIA)

What happens when a temporary tattoo becomes permanent, and makes you permanently DEAD?! We find out in our most macabre episode yet coving the bird-catcher tree (Pisonia grandis). Join us this week as discuss this tree's unique means of spreading its seeds, and the dark repercussions.

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Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex Crowson

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Cover art by Jillian Barthold
Music by Aves and The Mini-Vandals
Episode cover photo by David Eickhoff

Additional Reading:

The bird-catcher or mapou (Pisonia grandis)
Pu’atea in Tahitian, leechai kottai keerai in India (not sure which language, specifically) or cabbage tree in English (Arbre à choux in French), or the devil's-claw tree! What a fun array of names for one tree.
Pisonia: The Tree That Kills Birds
A Useful Tropical Tree (The Tropical Plant Database)
Seabirds killed by trees: accident or design? by Alan E Burger of University of Victoria, Canada
Pisonia grandis…A grand problem?