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[โ€“] fossilesque@mander.xyz 41 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)
[โ€“] victorz@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

TIL about this plant. Holy moly.

We have nettles native to where I live but those are like a couple of/a few hours of pain. And the pain is just mildly intense itching. Enough to make a child cry, kind of.

But this... ๐Ÿ˜ณ

[โ€“] icelimit@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is that the one that makes people kill themselves

[โ€“] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, the one in the image here. Sounds absolutely brutal when you look it up.

[โ€“] LytiaNP@lemmy.today 22 points 3 weeks ago

I've heard it makes a good toilet paper substitute

[โ€“] Slatlun@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This isn't the same plant as the op. Op is poison oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum).

[โ€“] ozoned@piefed.social 10 points 3 weeks ago

Oof. You're next level evil. :-D

[โ€“] Deceptichum@quokk.au 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm happy to know it is only found up north.

[โ€“] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

And i thought that's an olive branch.

[โ€“] flora_explora@beehaw.org 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Wow, the Wikipedia article definitely is worth a read! This thing is over the top bad :O

(But, as someone pointed out, this clearly isn't the species in the OP, which has divided leaves with three leaflets.)

[โ€“] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago

I need my eyes checked lmao.