Most threatening plant

[ToiletCrusher]

Based on looks, what plant seems the most threatening?

I have seen this plant over the past 10 years become more prominent near my cabin.

Giant Hogweed. It's an invasive species and can even kill people.

http://www.spraytechweedcontrolspecialists.co.uk/images/giant_hogweed.jpg

What else is there?

[Dude!]

Giant Hogweed. It's an invasive species and can even kill people.

How does it kill people?
strangling?
beating them to death?

[TooLowBrow]

http://media.wdtv.com/images/pot+plant.jpg
its so dangerous its illegal, living or dead

[ToiletCrusher]

How does it kill people?
strangling?
beating them to death?

One needs to get close enough to it to find out.

We find it on our property and we burn it.

[TooLowBrow]

Based on looks, what plant seems the most threatening?



based on looks?

do you want dangerous looking plants or actually dangerous plants?

[ToiletCrusher]

based on looks?

do you want dangerous looking plants or actually dangerous plants?

Either the actual look of the plant, or it can even be based off of events you experienced making you feel that the plant is threatening.

[Devo37]

i have some bamboo growing in a glass of water filled with pebbles (the stuff you get for $5 at the asian deli).

never realized how creepy plants can be until i saw the roots filling every little nook and cranny in the glass. they even creep up above the water-line up the side of the glass. i'm quite sure they'll climb down the outside of the glass, onto the table, and start moving the damn thing around like tentacles.

[Friday]

my favorite... and the only plant i like to keep in the house when they are in season.

it's fun to watch them eat!

http://flytrapgrowing.info/uploads/flytrap_feathercat.jpg

unfortunately, like with most plants... i end up killing them eventually.
i just don't have a very green thumb :(

[Hottub]

http://www.coloradocollege.edu/dept/PC/RepresentativePhy/Pages/Photoshop/Problem%20Pictures/Nuclear%20Plant.jpg

[Gvac]

i have some bamboo growing in a glass of water filled with pebbles (the stuff you get for $5 at the asian deli).

never realized how creepy plants can be until i saw the roots filling every little nook and cranny in the glass. they even creep up above the water-line up the side of the glass. i'm quite sure they'll climb down the outside of the glass, onto the table, and start moving the damn thing around like tentacles.



You are correct about bamboo, sir. It is a beautiful, but insidious, creature.

Much like women.

There are many records of humans being tortured by bamboo. Because bamboo grows quickly, it can grow through a person, causing them much pain. The Mythbusters found that a piece of bamboo can grow through a person in 2–4 days, given the right growing conditions. It has also been documented that in World War II, Japanese troops tortured U.S. soldiers by removing their fingernails with bamboo, as did the Viet Cong troops

[ToiletCrusher]

Unless I see pictures of bamboo wrapping around people, I don't believe it.

[Gvac]

Unless I see pictures of bamboo wrapping around people, I don't believe it.

It doesn't wrap AROUND them, it grows RIGHT THROUGH THEM!

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[sailor]

devil's club sounds threatening.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Oplopanax_horridus_13393.JPG

[ToiletCrusher]

It doesn't wrap AROUND them, it grows RIGHT THROUGH THEM!


I'll grow through you.

[~Katja~]

How does it kill people?
strangling?
beating them to death?
it's into choking


and maybe not scary but annoying and hard to control are giant thistles in my front and back yard, just as you think you have them under control on the lawn they pop up everywhere between shrubs and flowers in the beds and under stairs, grow gigantic and freakin hurt when you remove them, even through a garden glove

[boosterp]

Up at my property the Milk Weed plant is the most dangerous per se. It caries a poison that burns on contact and just about everyone is allergic to. Most allergic reactions only occur on the skin that is affected but if you come in contact with enough of it it can do some serious harm.

Other than that, try burning poison ivy or poison oak, if you breath it in you can have some serious airway issues.

There is a plant, I need to run a film photograph through some kind of google but the berry juice can kill you if it comes in contact with a mucous membrane.

Oh, at my first home I had a castor tree which the seeds are ground to produce ricin.

[jennysmurf]

This one looks pretty scary...

http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:SlxRmgiitPqmnM:http://www.dyers.org/images/200810/ping-pong-angry-plant.jpg






boo

[razorboy]

I met some threatening Psilocybin shrooms recently.

[Death Metal Moe]

http://www.brucejarvis.co.nz/Images/Robert%20Plant%20917_07.jpg

[jennysmurf]

http://www.brucejarvis.co.nz/Images/Robert%20Plant%20917_07.jpg

I do feel a little threatened by his bulge.

[MacVittie]

http://pigeonhaspants.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/oz-tree.jpg

[PapaBear]

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[Dude!]

Up at my property the Milk Weed plant is the most dangerous per se. It caries a poison that burns on contact and just about everyone is allergic to. Most allergic reactions only occur on the skin that is affected but if you come in contact with enough of it it can do some serious harm.

are you sure about milkweed?

it's the plant monarch
butterflies love

every kid i knew
handled it and no one
every had any ill effects

[barjockey]

http://static.flickr.com/3086/2601534978_748b3fe9da.jpg


Nightshade

[keithy_19]

http://clashofthetitans.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/littleshop2.jpg

[keithy_19]

http://webecoist.com/2008/09/16/16-most-unassuming-yet-lethal-killer-plants/

Just a quick question: Is this thread in response to the get off the internet thread?

[sailor]

planty

[boosterp]

are you sure about milkweed?

it's the plant monarch
butterflies love

every kid i knew
handled it and no one
every had any ill effects

MAybe I have them mixed up, I don't know if this is a nickname but we called it bull nettle. I'll google it in a few.

[Moe Lester]

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if treeman counts, then yes plants are terrifying

[boosterp]

<a href="http://photobucket.com/images/treeman" target="_blank"><img src="http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r159/Edmundo_05/treeman.jpg" border="0" alt="alrbolman Pictures, Images and Photos"/></a>

if treeman counts, then yes plants are terrifying

I could do with out seeing that hideous bastard. If he still had fingers he could of shot himself long ago and I'd be happy.

[Russel P]

There's nothing to stop him from jumping off of a building. Except maybe there are no buildings in his village. But he could jump out of a tree. Shit, I bet he couldn't climb one. What an asshole.

[DiabloSammich]

You people should get a hold of yourselves.


Plants are nothing but potential income streams.

[Misteriosa]

Oleander:

http://webecoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/oleander.jpg

Daffodils:

http://webecoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/narcissus-flowers.jpg

Rhododendron:

http://webecoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/rhododendron.jpg