Lonesome Palm

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The lonesome palm (cocos nucifera solitaria) secretes a poison which is deadly to others of its own kind. It is common to most of the Great Southern Pelagic Ocean. This is why the popular image of a small desert island in the south seas has one palm tree, and only one.