Many plants in the world are toxic, and many of them can indeed cause hallucinations, but they will not cause people to commit suicide. Most of them are accidents caused by hallucinations. Plants like corpse-scented konjac exist, but they do not cause hallucinations.
The term "corpse-scented konjac" is still known from a certain novel. You must know that the novel is to create a fantasy or weird environment. It uses the corpse-scented konjac as a guide to fictionalize some of this plant. Weird ability, it is said that it can cause people to hallucinate and cause people to attack each other.
The prototype of corpse-scented konjac is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Araceae family, also known as "corpse flower" and giant konjac. According to scientists' observations, corpse-scented konjac only blooms once every 7 years, and the flowering period is very short. For a few days, it also has a more vivid name "corpse-stinking konjac" because it releases some strange odor during the flowering period, and this odor will attract some scavenging insects, and insect activities will spread the pollen. , but they are quite fragile and an endangered plant, probably because the flowering interval is too long and the flowering period is very short.
The smell of corpse-scented konjac does not contain substances that can cause poisoning and hallucinations. Due to the smell of corpse-scented konjac, people may take a detour after smelling it, which also reduces the possibility of poisoning and hallucinating. However, there are indeed many creatures that can cause hallucinations. Psychedelic mushrooms are one of them, which can produce a substance called psilocybin. If humans eat it, it will cause abnormal behavior and loss of speech. According to archaeologists According to analysis, ancient human shamans began to use the hallucinogenic properties of this mushroom to create paintings and other creations more than 5,000 years ago.
Due to its hallucinogenic properties, it can cause abnormal human activities. If you eat this kind of mushroom on the edge of a cliff, you may indeed fall off the cliff, but that is an accident caused by a person in a state of hallucination. It doesn't make people attack each other.
There is no need to trace the authenticity of many stories in novels. After all, literature or entertainment readings are not professional academic works. They do not need to be written according to facts, but need a lot of room for expansion.