The author totally wasted an opportunity to have someone die of poisoning when they tried to eat a relative of the menacing giant squash. Wikipedia says poisonous squash have killed before and will do again are a real possibility, which is more than enough plausibility to match the level of realism of the rest of the book.
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have killed before and will do againare a real possibility, which is more than enough plausibility to match the level of realism of the rest of the book.