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[Haekel]

I've been surfing the web a bit, when I stumbled upon this... beauty.

The screaming nightmare you can see here are the fruit of Actaea pachypoda or "White Baneberry". I'm fairly certain mother nature has been playing DF and tried to copy it.

Enjoy.

[runlvlzero]

My first thought was can you eat it (as always) :

The berries are highly poisonous, and the entire plant is considered poisonous to humans. The berries contain cardiogenic toxins which can have an immediate sedative effect on human cardiac muscle tissue, and are the most poisonous part of the plant.

Hell no =/ That's about the worst toxicity report I have ever seen for a plant yet.

[Findulidas]

Hell no =/ That's about the worst toxicity report I have ever seen for a plant yet.

Well there are loads of plants that are very dangerous, its always a question on how much you have to eat before it starts to damage your body and how much until it kills you. Could be that you have to eat 1kg of it if you weigh 50kg which wouldnt make it particularly dangerous.

[Dragula]

Can I smoke it?

[runlvlzero]

Whats especially creepy to me about it is that it doesn't tell you if you get inflammation or anything else... so you could 'test' it 'test' it some more, get a little sleepy, short of breath, not realize that was it, then it will kill you next round. Also the birds are a bad indicator of whether its safe or not for humans.

Who knows though, maybe it needs to be distilled and concentrated to be lethal. In other words, it could work like a mild sedative.

How often to poisons target only the heart though, and not other muscles?

Then you have cases like philodendrons which in general are reported to be 'dangerous to a deadly degree' but really aren't more then an irritant and going to make you sick (most).

Can I smoke it?

Lol

[NW_Kohaku]

I remember this plant.  Someone linked a Cracked.com article to the forums a couple years ago about this...

And the google says... this is the page.

I remember it as a talk about things that should be added to caverns or evil biomes.

[Uristocrat]

I should hope that nobody would be dumb enough to eat the creepy eyeball plant, but you never know.  I guess that's why they call it "natural selection."

[Mel_Vixen]

Well nature also has some !!fun!! stuff we dont have yet, like a the poisonous with manacing wooden spikes covered tree those fruit explode like handgranades to throw its wooden (sharp edged) seeds up to 40 meters. 

[Dutchling]

I remember this plant.  Someone linked a Cracked.com article to the forums a couple years ago about this...

And the google says... this is the page.

I remember it as a talk about things that should be added to caverns or evil biomes.

It wasn't more than a year and a half ago, as I can remember seeing it on the forums as well :)

[MonkeyHead]

I would imagine eating these would be a one in a lifetime expereince...

[runlvlzero]

Well nature also has some !!fun!! stuff we dont have yet, like a the poisonous with manacing wooden spikes covered tree those fruit explode like handgranades to throw its wooden (sharp edged) seeds up to 40 meters.

That's awesome...

Reminds me of the Aeon Flux movie were the grass around the "Royal" palace would slice you with mono filament fibers and the tree's shot sharp quills.

Toady needs to implement grass that makes your dwarves feet bleed in evil biomes =) Ya i know there's rain and dust.... but we need MOAR!

Also kudzu that grows up and into your fortress blocking it in would be great too lol.

[Murgy]

Looking for mind-bending flora and fauna? Parasites, Fungi, and Pseudopods.
You will find that Lovecraft was right.