saw this article on a plant that "eats" sheep

i thought to myself:

creepy
ingenious!
creepy
ingenious!

my question is: really? wow! fascinating... the phrase that struck me was " its favorite fertilizer"

that is what i would call a SENTIENT plant

what is it about sheep though that would make them go so near them as to impale themselves upon them

wouldn't other animals not go anywhere near them

why sheep?

anyhow, i guess when a person is called a "sheep", it is not a compliment

but sheep are so gentle
i think
that must be worthy of some merit

anyhow, enjoy the article and the photos of this ultra freaky "intelligent" plant

lastly

do plants have consciousness?

all i know is that i borrow theirs every time i eat them

maybe we should be called "plant eating humans" LOL

And, here is an article I found in some little crevasse located on the surface of
my dragon fruit (also known as "pithaya" ( or somethin like that)... all the rage at jamba juice

"Strange sighting of the plant eating humans have been found on the rawfoods.com site. A disproportinate number of the members eat a disproportionately high amount of plants posing a direct threat to plant life ( except for those who farm as well"

anyhoo... enough silliness

seriousness is in order ! ( scowl on my face.. furrowed brows)

read about this shark like plant!!


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here are more images of this ferocious feral plant

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all i can say is that if you find yourself ( for whatever reason) playing soccer in a field that has a lot of these things, best just mosy yourself out to another field

or maybe the "elite" soccer athletes can come up with a new game where they play soccer while simultaneously using these plants like some sort of a labyrinth

the point is not to just kick the soccer ball into the goal but to also avoid getting killed

if a member of the opposing team gets maimed or killed

then they lose

yeah, a bit draconian

i could see them playing this game in... say.. the roman times or something like that

heck, maybe i shouldn't even have written this

this world is getting crazier by the second

who knows what strange ideas people get in their heads

i just saw an image of higher order aliens

programming people to play sheep eating plant soccer

the way some people make rooster fight and make bets

ummm... maybe i ate too much fruit today ( its the sugar)

i better lay off the mangoes

i hear they are secretly steamed anyways

yeah, that must be what's making me think such crazy things

Thanks Veronique, a very interesting plant. But I think the pointed leaves are just meant to keep animals away. Domestic sheep are bred to be so dumb, clumsy, and spiritless that some of them fall in. No wild animal would so succumb.

For instance the Agave and Yucca (also called Spanish Bayonet) have deadly pointed leaves like the Puya but I've never seen any evidence of animal death on any of the 1000s I've seen.