Context: that's the gympie gympie plant, a plant whose toxins are so painful that various animals self delete just from touching it; a famous story is about a man who shot himself after using it as toilet paper
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I spent a month in the Australian rainforest a few years ago for a study abroad thing. Orientation starts, and our professors are like “You don’t have to worry about animals here. If you don’t step on a snake, you don’t have to worry about snakes. There are no large predators in Australia, and the only large herbivore will maybe show itself once. However, if you don’t try to fight a cassowary, you need not fear the cassowary. HOWEVER, the stinging tree. Be afraid. Don’t touch it. Don’t touch anything you think could be it. Avoid patches of sunlit forests; that’s where it grows. Seek help immediately if you touch the stinging tree. FEAR THE STINGING TREE.” What I wasn’t expecting was to be the one who encountered the cassowary
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I’ve been stung by the giant stinging tree. The larger, subtropical cousin of the Gympie Gympie. It was one of the most painful things I’ve ever felt. And just like the Gympie Gympie, the trichomes break off inside your skin with the toxins still inside, you keep feeling the sting off and on until all the toxins inside the trichomes runs out. For a good 8 months I would feel the stings in my leg at night when I rolled around in bed and agitated the skin. Thankfully it got better over time. That was about 7 years ago and thankfully I haven’t been stung by one again. I’m especially thankful that I wasn’t stung by the Gympie Gympie though, apparently it’s way worse, and because it’s a little shrub you’re much more likely to be stung, on a much larger area of your body too
5 months ago | 275
I have never felt so scared by reading about a plant in my life. This thing makes Rain World’s plants look tame.
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It SHOULD scare you. A plant so foul and cruel that it might as well be the real world equivilent to Abadon's Locusts: who's poison torments for months, causing those to wish for a death that will never come.
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@Wolfiyeethegranddukecerberus17
Ah yes, my favourite Australian animal, the Gympie Gympie
5 months ago (edited) | 407
Oh yes, I remember that one video of Kyle Hill describing the most fiendish and heinous plants that Poison Ivy could weaponize if she really wanted to do some damage, and he featured this one *shivers*
4 months ago | 52
I would love to see a video about plants. I know your content is about fauna, but one video about flora just to test the waters is an intriguing idea to me. I support it.
4 months ago | 58
@AdrianKucner_FreedomMaximalist
Vegetarians were really quiet since this one dropped
5 months ago | 129
That's actually facts. Shit hurts so bad when you step on it. Doesn't help there's plants that look like it but don't hurt
5 months ago | 100
Human mains seething when their top tier intel build mistakes a gympie player for toilet paper
5 months ago | 52
You did tree tier list anyways, so next ones will be flower and fern tier lists?
4 months ago (edited) | 1
Give Koala's a few thousand years of evolution and they'll be somehow eating those things for breakfast
4 months ago (edited) | 9
The one toxin to exceed platypus venom in "I want to die" levels of pain. Australia really just doesn't want people to live there, does it?
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TierZoo
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5 months ago | [YT] | 19,255