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Cacatman's List of Things that can kill you in Australia...

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While these will not kill you the pain ain’t great. Don’t forget the wait-a-while plant in the rainforests and also the Queensland stinging tree or “Gympie-Gympie”. Apparently an English surveyor wiped his derrière with a leaf after using the facilities and could not handle the pain and killed himself.
 
While these will not kill you the pain ain’t great. Don’t forget the wait-a-while plant in the rainforests and also the Queensland stinging tree or “Gympie-Gympie”. Apparently an English surveyor wiped his derrière with a leaf after using the facilities and could not handle the pain and killed himself.
The injured area becomes covered with small, red spots joining together to form a red, swollen welt. The hairs are also believed to be released to the air when the plant is cut or cleared in large areas. Workers without respiratory protection have reported sneezing, runny noses, mild nasal bleeding and throat irritation while cutting or clearing. Ernie Rider, who was slapped in the face and torso with the foliage in 1963, said:

For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldn't work or sleep, 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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides

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The injured area becomes covered with small, red spots joining together to form a red, swollen welt. The hairs are also believed to be released to the air when the plant is cut or cleared in large areas. Workers without respiratory protection have reported sneezing, runny noses, mild nasal bleeding and throat irritation while cutting or clearing. Ernie Rider, who was slapped in the face and torso with the foliage in 1963, said:



Dendrocnide moroides - Wikipedia

😦😧😮😲
Yep even our plants are bastards here in Australia.
 

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