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Blister Bush

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Blister bush botany

Unlike most, I was pleased when I recently experienced my first blister bush symptoms. After years in the mountains listening to companions brag about the surely near-fatal exposures they had endured, I finally had my own. This was especially exciting for an amateur botanist. Rather disappointingly,

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