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• victorz@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TIL about this plant. Holy moly.

  We have nettles native to where I live but those are like a couple of/a few hours of pain. And the pain is just mildly intense itching. Enough to make a child cry, kind of.

  But this… 😳

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  • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is that the one that makes people kill themselves

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, the one in the image here. Sounds absolutely brutal when you look it up.

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      • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I looked it up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides

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• LytiaNP@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve heard it makes a good toilet paper substitute

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• Slatlun@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This isn’t the same plant as the op. Op is poison oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum).

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oops mb.

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• ozoned@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oof. You’re next level evil. :-D

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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m happy to know it is only found up north.

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• flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wow, the Wikipedia article definitely is worth a read! This thing is over the top bad :O

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I need my eyes checked lmao.

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And i thought that’s an olive branch.

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