• saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Bunch of the plants in Australia rely on bushfires to survive and reproduce.

    Edit: And when I say “bushfire” I don’t mean US wildfires. There’s trees evolved to be extremely flammable that create huge fire fronts that start their own local extreme weather conditions and suck all the oxygen out of the air. Lightning on a storm is common enough, firenados are a thing too.

    • Redacted@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Fun history fact, australia gave a bunch of those trees to the us as a gift and no one thought to mention that they “explode” lol

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 days ago

      I’m really disappointed in the fact that there’s never been a carnivorous plant large enough to eat humans right now.

      I was going to make a joke about it being Australian and even the plants trying to kill you.

      Ah well. There’s always jokes about the Quoka Mafia plotting world domination.

      • Melochar @lemmy.worldEnglish
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        13 days ago

        Google the Gympie-gympie tree. It won’t eat you, but it can kill you, and it will hurt the whole time you are dying!

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          13 days ago

          Hmmm.

          and I thought my friend accidentally using poison ivy as toilet paper was too painful to be funny. (we were on a canoe trip and he jumped off to take a shit, only he forgot the TP, so he grabbed the nearest bunch of plants. Ooops.) (it was awful.) (it only became hilarious after he didn’t die.)

        • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          13 days ago

          Given what it does, it eating you might be considered more humane! But no, is the fuck you, I just want to cause pain tree.