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Tree Chechem (Mayan: Chechem, English: Poison Wood) .
enough private meets on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Grows normally side by side, very much like a tree - Chuck (Mayan: Chaka, English: Gumbo-limbo) . Chechem sap of the tree is poisonous and causes severe burns when you hit the skin. Even if just a touch to a tree - there will be a rash and burning. However, the sap of the tree acts as an antidote to Chuck, neytralizuruya toxins are the great.
In Maya there is a legend about these trees:
Once upon a time there lived two brothers - and Tzik Kinich. Tzik was angry and beszhalostnym, Kinich was good and all treated well. It so happened that both brothers in love with the same girl - nobody Ha. For her and they fought in the great and terrible battle, and eventually killed each other. In the afterlife, they asked the gods for forgiveness and the possibility of to see his beloved No Ha posleny times. The gods relented and turned the brothers into the trees - the evil Tzika Chechem the tree, the juice is left burns and Kinich - Chuck in a tree, the sap which treats burns from the great.
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