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Those that do not smile will kill me: The ethnobotany of the Ackee in Jamaica

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Rashford, J. Those that do not smile will kill me: The ethnobotany of the Ackee in Jamaica. Econ Bot 55, 190–211 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02864558

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