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In the impenetrable virgin forests of New Zealand you can meet the most poisonous plant in the world and fortunately rare plant. Urtica ferox, which locals call ongaonga, is a New Zealand endemic species known to all nettles. It is so poisonous that just touching it can cause incredibly severe pain and even death.
Ongaong can reach five meters in height, so this a plant is sometimes mistaken for a tree. Urtica ferox has leaves with large spikes about six millimeters long, containing large amounts of histamine and formic acid. Of these substances, as you know, are not present in the nettle growing in our country country. If you even touch the plant lightly, you can experience intense shock, which in can lead to defeat nervous system, as well as temporary loss of vision and paralysis.
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The most poisonous plant for all living things on the planet?
There are cases when animals entered the thicket of ongaongs, including horses, and slowly perished there. Unfortunately similar some people have not passed an unenviable fate. For example, one unfortunate hunter accidentally using Urtica ferox sheet instead of toilet paper, got so painful a burn that preferred to shoot himself, if only to save himself from torment.
Annually, on average, about a hundred New Zealanders require inpatient treatment after meeting with ongaong. With timely turning to doctors modern medicine allows you to effectively eliminate the effects of burns and do not only without fatal outcomes, but also without any serious damage to the skin and nervous system of the patient. Residents of the country are well aware of danger posed by the plant, and try as much as possible cut down thickets of dangerous nettles.
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You might think that all living beings avoid the ongaong, however this is surprisingly not the case. There is even an insect that feeds on it. It’s about the caterpillars of the New Zealand day butterfly Red Admiral – for them, Urtica ferox is almost the only food. Without touching the thorns with poison, the caterpillars carefully eat the leaves a poisonous plant, which for sure can be considered a useful thing.
A poisonous plant that can turn a person into a zombie
In the world there are other very dangerous plants for humans, for example, a giant hogweed. Just touch it to get severe poisoning because of its thick juice, exposed to sunlight, affects the skin a person who immediately begins to die. In case of contact with eyes, the juice of a giant hogweed makes the unfortunate blind.
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The most beautiful and poisonous plant
But the most amazing poisonous plant can be called angel trumpets found in South America. They are amazing beautiful in appearance and very insidious in nature. Touching angel pipes, a man turns into a zombie. Under influence the mesmerizing properties of the powerful toxins that it secrete “beautiful” plant, a person ceases to control his action, although it is conscious. No coincidence angelic trumpets used by local sorcerers, and they could use poisonous plant themselves, thereby introducing themselves into a certain trance, and influence it with other people, turning them into obedient slaves.
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