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How does the laburnum tree produce arsenic?

Pretty dangerous … laburnum flowers. Photograph: Alamy
Pretty dangerous … laburnum flowers. Photograph: Alamy

We have an apple and a pear tree that both produce good edible fruit. A few metres away is a laburnum tree with leaves and seeds containing arsenic. Arsenic is an element and cannot be made, so how does it happen?

Peter Byrnes, Merseyside

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