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    Stinging on skin after touching orange tree

    I've never had a reaction to citrus that I know of. In fact, I'm sure I had to have brushed against this very tree several times when picking off the dead oranges after we moved here, and nothing happened then. It's weird.
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    Stinging on skin after touching orange tree

    Yes, I know what sand gnats are, but this was much worse - like needles going into the skin. If it was the oils in the tree, I must be almost allergic to it, along with my wife, for me to react like this. If citrus affects us this way, I think I'd rather not have a citrus tree in our yard at...
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    Stinging on skin after touching orange tree

    Both my wife and I, on separate occasions, experienced severe stinging on our hands/arms after merely brushing against our backyard orange tree. We just moved to the property, and the tree hadn't been watered or fertilized properly, but it seems to be recovering now. I was pruning some dead...
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