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IN collecting the literature regarding phosphorescent plants, I chanced on an article, by Mr. C. F. Holder, on “Living Lamps,” in No. 392, vol. lxvi. (January 1883) of Harper's Magazine. In this article, at page 191, it is said: “In South America, a vine known as the Cipo, when injured, seems to bleed streams of living fire. Large animals have been noticed standing among its crushed and broken tendrils, dripping with the gleaming fluid, and surrounded by a seeming network of fire.”
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GIGLIOLI, I. Does a Phosphorescent South American Liana exist?. Nature 57, 412 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057412b0
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