10 Most Extremely Deadly Plants

10 Most Extremely Deadly Plants

There are a lot of living creatures that have been classified as deadly and fierce and you might want to stay many feet away from these living beings when you come across to them. Have you ever imagined to have same scary feeling when thinking about plants? Yes, there exist numerous plants who are deadly enough to turn into a nightmare for you, some of them are compiled in this list.

10 Mala Mujer

This plant is describes as more painful than poisonous Mala Mujer, which translates to “bad woman”, it is found in Southwest America and Mexico. It can cause painful skin irritations and slightly discoloration. The entire plant is covered in sharp stinging hairs that are capable of causing severe contact dermatitis. Each stinging hair has a white base, which is why the leaves have a dotted appearance.

9. Angel Trumpet

The flowers are trumpet-shaped and can grow up to 20 inches long. They are normally white, peach, pink, orange or yellow and its fruits are oval shape and are 3 to 6 inches long. All parts of angel’s trumpet plant are poisonous, or at least narcotic in small doses.

Angel’s trumpet is a heat-loving tropical or subtropical shrub that likes warm days and cool nights.

8. Carnivorous Pitcher Plant

This plant is found on the mount Victorian Philippines. The plant’s secret is a nectar like substance which slips the suspecting victim into the pool of acid, mixed with enzyme which makes it impossible for the trapped victim to escape. Insects are commonly trapped and become meal for this plant. This plant has nitrogen deficiency therefore these plant recover nitrogen from these trapped insects. The plant is found about 5000 feet above the sea level.

7. White Snakeroot

White Snakeroot is a straight, branched herb normally about 3 feet tall but varying from 1 to 5 feet. It has slim, round stems and branches bearing pointed, oval, opposite placed leaves, 3 to 5 inches long and are sharply toothed on the margins. An animal may die from eating either a large amount of white snakeroot at a time or small amounts over a long period. It will result in animal disease known as trembles. Sheep, horses, and cattle are the most effected animals.

6. Common Bladderwort

Common Bladderwort has lacy leaves, quarter to two inches-long; subdivided into segments of unequal length, having thread-like segments. Carnivorous bladders are attached at regular intervals along the linear leaf segments that trap and digest tiny water invertebrates. Its Bladders are small, dispirited, pear-shaped pouches. They open suddenly when trigger hairs are disturbed, sucking in water and any unfortunate water creature responsible for setting off the trap. Digestive enzymes and bacteria found in the bladder digest the victim for the nutritional use of the plant; a process takes 15 minutes to 2 hours, for complete digestion. Its special cells extract the nutrient-rich water from the bladder into the stem, thus reinstating the vacuum and resetting the trap for its next victim.

If you want to check the plant out of the water and up to your ear, you can sometimes hear the bladders’ rapid intake of air, which gave rise to the name “pop weed”, sometimes given to this plant

Its flowers are bright yellow, perfect, irregular in form, rather resembling a snapdragon lip.

5. Venus flytrap

Venus flytrap plant has sensitive hairs that signal the plant if it is touched and it closes quickly. The odor leaves attract insects. When an insect attract on a trap and triggers hairs, it causes the jaw-like leaves to sudden shutoff. It takes about 5 to 30 of a second for the leaves to sudden shutoff in sunlight. Cloudy weather conditions or low temperatures its shutoff time is slow.

The trapped insect is then dissolved slowly by acids and digested by the plant. About a week later, all that is left of the insect is its hard pair of flytrap leaves which dies after catching insects four times. If a trap is shutoff but there is no insect inside, then leaves will re-open in about a day again.

4. Western Water Hemlock

The water hemlock contains the poison Cicutoxin, which attack on the central nervous system, causing grand mal seizures. Its effects include loss of consciousness and contractions of muscle which may eventually result in death if ingested. Water hemlock is different from poison hemlock, Socrates’ notorious killer, in that it contains alkaloids (coniine) that kill by paralyzing the respiratory track system. Both are members of the carrot family and normally found and grow in North America.

3. Nerium Oleander

Nerium Oleander is widely cultivated as an attractive shrub or as an informal get around in warm-temperate and dry subtropical regions. It is highly poisonous to humans, pet animals and, livestock and birds due to the presence of cardiac Glycosides, mainly Oleandrin. Ingestion causes nausea, vomiting, cardiac arrhythmias, low blood pressure result may cause death.

2. Monkshood

The poison in Monkshood is called Aconitine and it contain an Alkaloid toxin, the deadliest and most alarming poisonous substances known to man and its poisoned symptoms are burning sensations inside the mouth, dizziness, headaches and may be vomiting. In case larger quantities of the poison are ingested then breathing will become difficult and paralysis for shortly and may also result in blood circuit failure, the victim writhes in agony. His spasms however rapidly decrease and may result in unconsciousness lead to imminent death. If its poison is affected to a man and toxin absorption is half an hour, it may result in ingesting to death, a slow and painful death similar to strychnine poisoning. However, most instances of contact from this plant are just to touch the petals and this will result in irritation, slight dizziness and a little nausea, death only happens if the plant is eaten.

1. Ricinus communis

The most gardened plant almost all over the world which looks like oleander, Castor oil plants, have seeds which are actually very dangerous and holds the current title for world’s most poisonous plant in renowned Guinness Book of World Records. An incredibly toxic chemical named Ricin is present in this seed and 4 to 8 seeds may contain a lethal dose. Intake of the seeds can result in fiery sensations in the mouth and throat, severe abdominal pain, and bleeding diarrhea within 3 days, and can cause death within 3 to 5 days if appropriate treatment is not provided.