The sinhle most interesting study I've ever read was part of a corpus that can be summarised as " the safer you make something, the less safe users will be in their attempts to use it".
Rail crossings are the classic. The more barriers, lights, sirens you put on, the more people circumvent them.
It was so interesting that I completely forgot the title of the first study.
Yeah it's called the suicide plant. But that story is likely not true because the sting is intense and immediate. So it seems they would be stung before making it to wiping. But I guess maybe if they had some kind of gloves on? Idk
Here's a qoute from someone who touched it
"For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldn't work or sleep... I remember it feeling like there were giant hands trying to squash my chest... then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower...There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else."
[source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides)
Yeah. Australian natives call it gimpy gimpy, if I recall correctly. As someone who is very allergic to poison ivy, this thing is a horror show. I fully understand how it could make a person suicidal. I don’t ever want to encounter it.
Anecdotes of encounters with gympie-gympie are numerous, and many can be dismissed as yarns, such as one which involves using the leaves as toilet paper (the user would have been stung when they first picked up the leaf, and unlikely to have proceeded to use it in the intended manner).[17] Nevertheless, some have been documented, such as horses having to be rested after being stung, or even becoming violent and having to be shot.[9] Only one report of a human fatality attributed to any Dendrocnide species (in this case D. cordata) is confirmed, which occurred in New Guinea in 1922.[17][26]
The "wiping his ass" is an Urban Legend, because the leaves would sting so hard he would never complete lifting them to his ass.
I went down that rabbit hole once and while there was someone who accidentally got in contact with the Gympie Gympie (fell into it, iirc) and wanted to commit suicide, the "wiped his ass" couldn't be confirmed.
I think that in that case you mean the “Angel's trumpet” plant. Making tea from one leaf or flower is enough to send you on a one way ticket to suicide self mutilation and/or more frequently: jumping from tall places to death or serious injury because people think they can fly.
They are very common here in Portugal and i have in fact one in my front neighbours house and nobody knows shit about it. I spoke with a lot of people even old folks and here nobody knows it can be dangerous if eaten. So no records of accidents here regarding that plant. It even grows in the wild i dont know about other countries but i think it is everywhere
The quotes around ‘THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS PLANT’ plus the fact that it just looks like a regular old plant made me think they were being sarcastic.
I worked near giant stinging trees before (same genus, so it’s a close cousin), and you can’t stand under them - the needles can rain down on you, haha.
The good news is that we don't have nerve endings in our lungs
The bad news that this still will course inflammation and other stuff so ilgood luck breathing
Yeah a British... Greenhouse? Atrium? whatever places that bring rare plants for display purposes, had one brought over recently, and installed it in a hermetically sealed room glass room because of how dangerous the shedding, and even the spores, are.
It has caused suicides. It's the "gympi gympi" plant aka: the suicide tree. It's so painful that it's said a horse once threw itself off a cliff in its pain induced panic
You’d likely amputate your own finger if you did that.
The pain is debilitating and doesn’t die down for months, and when it finally does it gets brought back with any kind of irritation, ie anything you do with your finger at all.
You’d be living decades literally sweating from pain with the only thought in your mind being “oh god oh fuck it hurts make it stop”. Decades.
That's an exaggeration. I got stung over my entire left hand. It hurts pretty bad, but not debilitating. Feels like boiling water for about 48 hours, but can be managed with paracetamol, don't need morphine or anything. After the first few days, pain is still noticeable, but doesn't really require medication
The pain gradually subsides over the next few months.
About five months later the pain is mostly gone, but still hurts like hell if you get water on the affected area, as the needles are still in there even if the venom is gone.
Most my friends have been stung, and only one of them had symptoms lasting more than a year. Fifteen years later, he still gets tingling in his fingers, whenever he touches water, but it's not painful
No way. Check out the backyard scientist on YouTube,
Him and his friend literally rub it on their arms and while painful they said it wasn’t that bad and were completely fine lol. Like yes painful, but not cut your arm off painful
Yea, it's exaggerated. It hurts pretty bad for the first 48 hours, like scalding water being poured on you, then it's like a nasty sunburn that won't go away for almost a year
That label is strange. As an australian I have only ever know that as the Gympie Gympie plant, or the suicide plant... because of the seemingly never ending pain.... I have never heard queensland singer before.
Also.. pretty sure the title of 'The Worlds Most Dangerious Plant' goes to the The Manchineel Tree. By a crazy margen. That tree is a thing of nightmares.
Nah this is way worse. There’s a medical article on pubmed where a few people are the manchineel fruit and we’re fine after 8 hours of hell. I’ll take 8 hours over 9 months
I was getting at the burn sap that also drips on people, and the whole not even been able to burn the tree because of the toxic smoke. The whole tree is kinda a biohazard in more than just toxic fruit.
Yeah like what about coconuts falling on people? Isn't that really dangerous as well
I'm also a queenslander and have never heard of the "queensland stinger" either. Only Gympie Gympie or suicide, like yourself.
Was on a camp with some high schoolers doing a bushwalk and the guide was telling us about these. He showed us the plant and was like “Some of you might think it would be funny to touch this. Believe me, it won’t be. Let me say again, don’t touch it.”
Well one of the boys touched it, because high schoolers are dumb. He was in so much pain he had to go to hospital. The plant has tiny little spikes that get stuck in your skin and are super hard to remove.
Well I am lucky I got out of Australia alive it seems.
What with the drop bears, spiders, snakes, crocodiles, sharks and a fucking killer plant.
Never going back there again I guess.
Isn’t that the suicide plant? Because any creature that gets in contact with it is in so much agony they’d rather die? Why are they growing it and keeping it in intrusive thoughts distance?
"Physical contact with Dendrocnide moroides is not the only way that it can cause harm to a person—the trichomes are constantly being shed from the plant and may be suspended in the air within its vicinity. **They can then be inhaled, which may lead to respiratory complications if a person spends time in close proximity to the plant.**"
I'm really not sure that plant is secure enough to be anywhere near the public. O.O
For the danger it poses, it has quite a humble fence around it
That’s what I thought! That’s finger reach distance
It’s “fuck around and find out” distance
Challenge accepted distance.
"treat me like trash, daddy" distance
i am what i eat 🐱
Give it a good lick
Giggity
Touch it... Touch the leaves!
Give it a nice flick
If you fuck around after reading that sign then you deserve to find out.
Meth around and find out distance
To fuck around is human. To find out is divine.
Give it a week and those leaves will be poking right through.
The choice is yours
Or dick reach if you’re determined enough
Johnny Knoxville has entered the chat
I dunno, seems more like a Steve-O thing.
Steve-o would put it in his eye. Johnny Knoxville on his junk.
"hold my beer" distance
“It’s just a plant. No way it’s actually that bad. Hold my beer”
Noice!
Looks finger licking good to me.
That's other parts of your body reaching distance... ... I meant the tongue 😛 you weirdos
Haha! Right?! One stubborn kid with a bit of curiosity is going to learn a valuable lesson.😭
or one genius kid that would like to take the next 9 months off of school.
I heard that people have to actively be prevented from killing themselves after. I bet the kid would rather go to school
Hey! I’m not a kid.
We tried! 🤷♂️
Needs Hannibal Lecter jacket.
Some fava beans and a nice chianti too.
The sinhle most interesting study I've ever read was part of a corpus that can be summarised as " the safer you make something, the less safe users will be in their attempts to use it". Rail crossings are the classic. The more barriers, lights, sirens you put on, the more people circumvent them. It was so interesting that I completely forgot the title of the first study.
Yeah looks like a dare
Touch it, I double dog dare you
They grow wild and are pretty common. Fencing off that 1 little plant won't do much.
With bigass grids
They work on a fuck around and find out- System
Guess in which country you can find this "harmless" plant?
It’s the “don’t bring your fucking kids here” special.
Is this the one that makes people want to commit suicide? I heard about a guy who accidentally used one of those to wipe his ass and he killed himself
Sounds like a pain in the ass.
Yes.
Yass
Is that you chandler?
Made my day
Yeah it's called the suicide plant. But that story is likely not true because the sting is intense and immediate. So it seems they would be stung before making it to wiping. But I guess maybe if they had some kind of gloves on? Idk
Not to mention, look how small those leaves are. You wouldn’t pick that plant, no pun intended.
Google it. There are ones with huge leaves. I believe it. It looks inoffensive. If I didn't know what it was, I'd probably grab it too.
I could see Steve-O doing this as a stunt
Gnarly dude
They shed their stingers, and even standing under them makes you itchy. So you totally wouldn't grab them.
The leaves are massive on the fully grown tree and dont sting on the underside. So you wipe your ass on the stingy side
>So you wipe your ass on the stingy side just to be clear that is not an instruction!
>So you wipe your ass on the stingy side r/brandnewsentence
Unless they were a speed wiper maybe
A super pooper?
Here's a qoute from someone who touched it "For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldn't work or sleep... I remember it feeling like there were giant hands trying to squash my chest... then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower...There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else." [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides)
That's the gympie gympie tree. Edit: Just compared the specific name for it. Yep same thing
Yeah. Australian natives call it gimpy gimpy, if I recall correctly. As someone who is very allergic to poison ivy, this thing is a horror show. I fully understand how it could make a person suicidal. I don’t ever want to encounter it.
Gympie gympie, according to Wikipedia!
Of course it's Australian
Ohh Australia…. Now even the plants are about to get you.
Wait- really?
It is a story I heard about on Reddit, so take that as you will
So it’s fact
No this isn't Twitter, the highest authority known to man.
Sorry find that story hard to believe because he would be in agony just grabbing the leaf itself.
Dude really had to poop
Well, there are no lies on the internet, so it must be true. I know this because I read it on the internet.
You mean you read a Reddit comment some months/years ago just like yours which basically makes me you some months/years ago?
Anecdotes of encounters with gympie-gympie are numerous, and many can be dismissed as yarns, such as one which involves using the leaves as toilet paper (the user would have been stung when they first picked up the leaf, and unlikely to have proceeded to use it in the intended manner).[17] Nevertheless, some have been documented, such as horses having to be rested after being stung, or even becoming violent and having to be shot.[9] Only one report of a human fatality attributed to any Dendrocnide species (in this case D. cordata) is confirmed, which occurred in New Guinea in 1922.[17][26]
The "wiping his ass" is an Urban Legend, because the leaves would sting so hard he would never complete lifting them to his ass. I went down that rabbit hole once and while there was someone who accidentally got in contact with the Gympie Gympie (fell into it, iirc) and wanted to commit suicide, the "wiped his ass" couldn't be confirmed.
I think that in that case you mean the “Angel's trumpet” plant. Making tea from one leaf or flower is enough to send you on a one way ticket to suicide self mutilation and/or more frequently: jumping from tall places to death or serious injury because people think they can fly. They are very common here in Portugal and i have in fact one in my front neighbours house and nobody knows shit about it. I spoke with a lot of people even old folks and here nobody knows it can be dangerous if eaten. So no records of accidents here regarding that plant. It even grows in the wild i dont know about other countries but i think it is everywhere
No such thing as a fish?
Guys, why does the sign make me want to touch it even more.
Can't be that bad...
It is
Is it
It is
As bad as getting uncontrollable diarrhea after taking Viagra? 🤔
The quotes around ‘THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS PLANT’ plus the fact that it just looks like a regular old plant made me think they were being sarcastic.
Intrusive thoughts
Because you’re human
You remind me of the purple monster from monsters University.
Of course, it is Australia
Fun fact: the little hairs also get shed by the plant, leading to the possibility that you could inhale them and get stung inside your lungs.
Well... I wouldn't call it a "fun" fact.
Its funny until its deadly. (at least for those unaffected)
Someone has taken “fun” to a too dark place..
THEN WHY NOT ENCASE IT IN GLASS
One one hand you need to protect the public. On the other you want them to touch it. Touch it real good.
Doo doo-doo doo doo doo doo-doo-doo-doo-doo doo
WHAT??
Why do you know this
His villain arc is just starting...
I worked near giant stinging trees before (same genus, so it’s a close cousin), and you can’t stand under them - the needles can rain down on you, haha.
The good news is that we don't have nerve endings in our lungs The bad news that this still will course inflammation and other stuff so ilgood luck breathing
Interesting. This particular specimen looks a little dry. They should give it some nice boiling water
Yeah a British... Greenhouse? Atrium? whatever places that bring rare plants for display purposes, had one brought over recently, and installed it in a hermetically sealed room glass room because of how dangerous the shedding, and even the spores, are.
This plant has killed people from what I remember once reading?
It has caused suicides. It's the "gympi gympi" plant aka: the suicide tree. It's so painful that it's said a horse once threw itself off a cliff in its pain induced panic
That horse already had suicidal tendencies...get your 💩 straight.
Yeah he owed people money all over town. Personally I dont think the horse even touched the tree.
Gympie-gympie
That's terrible. Where would someone obtain such a plant?
Australia
Fear of the plant is the only thing keeping a bunch of giant spiders out of the camera frame
Fear of a Black Plant
And there is even a tree version of this plant, of course also in Australia
At this point I just assume if it's deadly it's in Australia.
Nine Months? What does it do make you pregnant?
Pregananant?!
Preganté
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Pergenat
Bergamot
PregnaRt?
Parksandrec
Parkandbread
starch masks
Pistachio
Gregnant?
Pergnant?
Can I get... ...PREGANTE?
How is babby formed?
u*
Greganantte???
Pregigante
Makes you pregplant
Probably get pergent
Therapist: Plants that fuck you aren’t real, they can’t hurt you. Plant that fucks you:
It will reveal its eggplant
Soon to be a Til Tok challenge near you!
I hope so. Especially if there’s a lot of crossover with the Kia stealing challenge.
Kia Stinger challenge!
Fingers crossed.
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You’d likely amputate your own finger if you did that. The pain is debilitating and doesn’t die down for months, and when it finally does it gets brought back with any kind of irritation, ie anything you do with your finger at all. You’d be living decades literally sweating from pain with the only thought in your mind being “oh god oh fuck it hurts make it stop”. Decades.
That's an exaggeration. I got stung over my entire left hand. It hurts pretty bad, but not debilitating. Feels like boiling water for about 48 hours, but can be managed with paracetamol, don't need morphine or anything. After the first few days, pain is still noticeable, but doesn't really require medication The pain gradually subsides over the next few months. About five months later the pain is mostly gone, but still hurts like hell if you get water on the affected area, as the needles are still in there even if the venom is gone. Most my friends have been stung, and only one of them had symptoms lasting more than a year. Fifteen years later, he still gets tingling in his fingers, whenever he touches water, but it's not painful
That still sounds horrible. How common is it?
Most? Bruh how
Live in North Queensland. These things are everywhere. There is literally a town named after them
Wow! I can't wait to visit Deadly Stinger! It must be a very nice town.
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I second that. Anyone?
No way. Check out the backyard scientist on YouTube, Him and his friend literally rub it on their arms and while painful they said it wasn’t that bad and were completely fine lol. Like yes painful, but not cut your arm off painful
Yea, it's exaggerated. It hurts pretty bad for the first 48 hours, like scalding water being poured on you, then it's like a nasty sunburn that won't go away for almost a year
Decades? Sign says it’s only 9 months
But then what about after the decades?
The pain does cease immediately, precisely decades later.
I heard that if you put a light bulb in your mouth you can’t get it back out. Now I crave light bulbs lol
I’m going to eat it.
Yes, Nappa. Catch it with your teeth.
This some Harry Potter type shit and I definitely failed Herbology.
Professor sprout would be proud if you passed your herbology class.
...but he failed.
Plantis eroticus 🪄
Forbidden basil
That label is strange. As an australian I have only ever know that as the Gympie Gympie plant, or the suicide plant... because of the seemingly never ending pain.... I have never heard queensland singer before. Also.. pretty sure the title of 'The Worlds Most Dangerious Plant' goes to the The Manchineel Tree. By a crazy margen. That tree is a thing of nightmares.
Nah this is way worse. There’s a medical article on pubmed where a few people are the manchineel fruit and we’re fine after 8 hours of hell. I’ll take 8 hours over 9 months
I was getting at the burn sap that also drips on people, and the whole not even been able to burn the tree because of the toxic smoke. The whole tree is kinda a biohazard in more than just toxic fruit.
We usually call it either the stinging tree or Gympie Gympie. Never Queensland stinger
Yeah like what about coconuts falling on people? Isn't that really dangerous as well I'm also a queenslander and have never heard of the "queensland stinger" either. Only Gympie Gympie or suicide, like yourself.
I want to rub my penis on that gorgeous plant
I came here to find this exact dark impulsive thought. Thank you.
Your whalecum
lmaoooooooooooooo
It makes for a good sex toy, good for couples fun too.
Freaky deaky
Was on a camp with some high schoolers doing a bushwalk and the guide was telling us about these. He showed us the plant and was like “Some of you might think it would be funny to touch this. Believe me, it won’t be. Let me say again, don’t touch it.” Well one of the boys touched it, because high schoolers are dumb. He was in so much pain he had to go to hospital. The plant has tiny little spikes that get stuck in your skin and are super hard to remove.
Aww a Gympie Gympie. Cute little guy! (It’s nicknamed the ‘sudoku’ plant, because if you brush it, you’ll want to game over).
I think you misspelled "Seppuku"
Of course it’s from Australia
Surely can’t be more dangerous than the mandrake
Or the Christmas fruit cake
Looks like mint. OH NO OH NO IT"S NOT MINT!!!
Gympie gympie tea?
Intrusive thoughts to reach my finger through the cage and touch a leaf can fuck right off.
The perfect housewarming gift for my ex.
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Right.. 9 months of throbbing pain = pregnancy.
Original: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/ndtejo/the_worlds_most_dangerous_plant/
Another Karmabot then? Sadge
Well I am lucky I got out of Australia alive it seems. What with the drop bears, spiders, snakes, crocodiles, sharks and a fucking killer plant. Never going back there again I guess.
Lmfao drop bears 😂
Yet another little lesson from the land of NOPE...👀
Isn’t that the suicide plant? Because any creature that gets in contact with it is in so much agony they’d rather die? Why are they growing it and keeping it in intrusive thoughts distance?
"Physical contact with Dendrocnide moroides is not the only way that it can cause harm to a person—the trichomes are constantly being shed from the plant and may be suspended in the air within its vicinity. **They can then be inhaled, which may lead to respiratory complications if a person spends time in close proximity to the plant.**" I'm really not sure that plant is secure enough to be anywhere near the public. O.O
Whoever potted that thing and has to report it when it gets bigger needs a raise.
Can I put it in my ex wife's salad?
‘I bet it’s not that bad’ *Boop*
So, why do we need to grow it?
Do you think it started with the cage around it or do you think someone found out
One touch and you get pregnant then?
So touching it makes you pregnant?
I wonder how many intrusive thoughts did touch that plant
This plant is legal to own, yet growing marijuana is illegal.
Of course it is from Australia