Botanical Barbarity: 9 Plant Defense Mechanisms: Media
These plants will cut you.
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The New Zealand tree nettle (Urtica ferox), showing secretory (glandular),...
G.R. Roberts, Nelson, New Zealand
The variegated leaves of dumb cane (Dieffenbachia seguine), a popular houseplant.
Forest & Kim Starr
(Top) Unstimulated and (bottom) stimulated sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica)
E.R. Degginger/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Pods of the broad bean, or fava bean (Vicia faba). The symbioses of fava...
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