If your Down Under, don't wipe your down under with this plant!

Dang, the place is like the surface of Venus in a weird Sifi horror movie. Fixing to turn in. Hope I don't have nightmares..

Nite, and thanks for all the great comments!

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I took a group of Kiwis on a bushwalk out the back of Coffs Harbour, NSW.

I showed them the plant mentioned above, and told them to never touch it under any circumstances. I showed them the plant in all its life stages, ie from 2 foot high to 100 foot high.

One of the kiwis needed to take a shit, and he used an old leaf from this tree to wipe himself.

He screamed like a stuck pig.

For hours.

Ruined a good bushwalk.

fuck them - we've got bunya trees up here

those fuckin nuts weigh up to 40lbs EACH

you get one of them drop on ya head and you're dead

really fucks up ya car too

Look up death tree

Our continent has doom trees everywhere.

I love this place.

Its so GLP.

Packed with DOOOOM

yep ..that's why millions of rags are living in the big cities

After reading this, I'm so glad i live in cold north america.

Here's a link with pictures of the Gympie gympie plant:

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and in NZ never ever touch the, what I knew as "Wainui nettle". Here's a link to pictures of this one. This one is very very painful also. Scroll down a bit, its nasty.

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another thing that kills people is:

Tourist that don't understand/can't read the road signs.
Some simply just don't understand how much road a road-train/ tandem log truck needs to stop,
if they gotta swerve to avoid killing you they can roll over!



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More stupid traveler horror stories please...

PRO TIP:

If Down-under?

Don't wipe your arse with any Flora or Fauna....

have you seen the nt news?

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According to Wiki, here is some of the plant chemistry that causes the horrendous stings:

Moroidin, a bicyclic octapeptide containing an unusual C-N linkage between tryptophan and histidine, was first isolated from the leaves and stalks of Dendrocnide moroides, and subsequently shown to be the principal compound responsible for the long duration of the stings

One of the alkaloids responsible for the pain is apparently called Moroidin. Nothing to do with atropine plus atropine acts as a dilleriant not a compound that causes extensive pain.

After a few Victoria Bitters I tried to wipe my ass with a Kookaburra. Not smart. Caused me to pass out. Luckily a dingo found me out behind the billabong.

The dingo started licking my face which brought me back to life. I lived with those dingos for months, surviving on wallaby, until my rectum heeled up.

I was then able to return to civilization. Be careful down under mates.

Slipping a prawn in yer barbi would stop the kookaburra poison!

do both

border wall and plant that gympie stuff on the "other side"

He is having you on.Oleander is a different story.Burn them and sit around the fire.Breathe in the nice smoke and die.

I have been bitten by an eastern brown .He got me on the foot.I have been bitten by a red back.they are ok and not as painful as people say but for 12 days (it goes up to 2 weeks) where the bite was it pounds day and night.Like your fist hitting reasonably hard on the spot non stop.I was bitten by something in my house that left 2 GIANT holes about a quarter of an inch deep and as round as a pin head.Dont know what that was but the most painbite bite ever had.2 weeks later the holes were still there.I am thinking it was a huntsman spider.The only ones that really bother me are European wasps but they are probably in USA as well.Another snake bit me as well but it was dark.No idea what it was an never went to hospital.By same token may have been a spider as I felt the bite saw the he holes but didn't see or feel the thing that bit.

I saw what you did there.

about 1:50 is the stinging tree, from the bush tucker man series.

I read a science piece a few years back about a tree in Africa about a tree that Wildebeest browse on. Every thing is fine until times of drought and stress. Then it turns poison and kills the crap out of them...

Log trucks can be deadly as hell. A childhood friend that drove one was turning into a sawmill in our hometown years ago from a poorly laid out highway intersection. The logs stuck out in the other lane and speared an oncoming school bus. Two kids and the driver were killed and s everal others badly injured. The whole town was horrified.

Plants, and especially trees, are huge genetic warehouses accumulated over millions of years I have read. Plenty of accumulated experience in using animals for different uses. Might be what is going on when one drops a limb on your head. It's hungry...

I won’t, but I’m not gonna stop sucking on the grevilias

Just don't wipe your butt with Poison Ivy.

I can't imagine why any one would want too..