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Working at Muir on a rainy February morning, Villegas took a break near a chain-link fence where he and his crew had just cut back some overgrown oleander.

The perennially under-construction compound, with its “oleander … and old milk cartons … R. Crumb comics, empty tea and coffee mugs, and ashtrays,” was often inhabited, Moon writes, by naked strangers “cavorting or making candles.”

Once the tree has been infected by oleander leaf scorch, leaves begin to yellow and drop.

Oleandrin is a poisonous substance found in the leaves of the oleander plant.

Among the potentially murderous or mind-altering flora are datura, oleander, narcissus and pennyroyal.