There are many terrifying plants in the world, for example:
Corpse flower
This flower grows in the Sumatra Islands, because when it blooms, it emits light like a rotting corpse. It smells like a corpse flower, so it is named corpse flower. It emits the smell of corpses and attracts insects to help spread pollen. On April 22, 2011, the Titan Amorphophallus flower, the world's largest and smelliest plant, bloomed in the botanical garden of a Swiss research institute. This giant flower is 1.6 meters high, which was an eye-opener for the tourists who visited that day. The stench, similar to that of rotting corpses, can be smelled even half a mile (about 800 meters) away.
2. Sheep-eating tree
Sheep-eating tree uses the sharp thorns on its flowers to capture animals. Once trapped, small animals can only starve to death, and the sheep-eating tree absorbs nutrients from the animal carcasses through the nearby soil.
After local farmers discover this plant, they will burn it with fire to prevent their livestock from being trapped.
3. Cobra Sarracenia
It is a carnivorous plant. Attract insects into the bottle, and then secrete digestive juice to digest the insect corpses.
Cobra Sarracenia is one of the more difficult carnivorous plants to cultivate. It requires higher daytime temperatures and lower nighttime temperatures. Its native place is a swamp or river bank where cold mountain springs flow in all year round, and its roots can always maintain a low temperature. Therefore, the best simulation method for cultivation is to cultivate with cold pure water.
4. Woody Datura
Woody Datura belongs to the Solanaceae family. Its flower juice can excite the nerve center, so swallowing it can produce stimulating effects. , and hallucinations may occur. If eaten in excess, the nerve center may be overexcited, which may suddenly turn into an inhibitory effect, resulting in a sudden drop in body function, often leading to death.
The whole plant is toxic, with the fruits, especially the seeds, being the most toxic, followed by the young leaves, and the dry leaves are less toxic than the fresh leaves. After poisoning, symptoms usually appear half an hour after eating, or 20 minutes at the fastest, and no more than 3 hours at the latest. The symptoms mostly disappear or basically disappear within 24 hours. Severe cases will enter drowsiness, convulsion, cyanosis, and finally faint after 24 hours. Obsessed with death.
5. Venus flytrap
Venus flytrap belongs to the Trichoderma family. Venus flytrap is a carnivorous plant. The leaves of this species have many tiny The tentacles have three setae on each side of the leaf. Once touched more than three times within 20 seconds, the leaves will close and capture the prey. The Venus flytrap leaves close very quickly, in less than a second. Glands in the leaves secrete sap to digest the softer parts of the insect's body. After a week or two, the leaves open again, ready to set traps for insects again. They are only found in parts of the coast of North Carolina and South Carolina in the United States.
6. Bad Woman Flower
It is mainly distributed in the southwestern United States and Mexico. Its surface is covered with spikes, and these spikes are so hard that if necessary, the spikes of this plant can even be used as fishhooks. The really scary thing about this plant is the corrosive milky liquid that oozes out, a characteristic common to many members of the Euphorbia plant family. This fluid can cause painful skin irritation and unsightly discoloration.
7. Water hemlock
Water hemlock is "the most poisonous plant in North America." Its flowers and stems are non-toxic, but the slender stems are full of a kind of juice called convulsant poison. Even a small amount can induce severe epilepsy and death quickly.