What are the nastiest plant seeds that could be realistically sprouted via seed shell? Be creative anons!
Bonus points for non directly harmful plants, the funnier the better.
Heres a few ideas
>fast growing plants like kudzu or bamboo can completely redefine a patch of land, growing conditions permitting. A blend of invasive plante suited for various climated could wreck about any yard or lot.
>datura provides a durable, obnoxious, highly hallucenogenic eye sore, frequently eaten by critters and idiots
>hemp basically grows a natural forest of super fucking tough rope
>common noxious weeds of all sorts can be super shitty to try and get rid of
The sandbox tree would be fucking cool but it has very limited growing conditions: >toxic >covered in thorns with poisonous sap >explosively shoots its seeds away from the tree to distances exceeding 100m and at speeds over 160 mph.
>Japanese Knotweed is a good one
Man that plant is so fucked, and a quick way to permanently kill it has yet to be found. At least, no ways that don't also kill all other plantlife in the area. I've heard about someone literally chopping everything off, burning the cutings, digging up the roots, drilling into the root he couldn't dig up and injecting poison directly into the system.
Two years later, it came back.
Yeah, it's not toxic or thorny or anything like that, it's just damn near impossible to get rid of, and it will grow through/in damn near anything. It came from the slopes of volcanoes where it had to be hardy enough to survive being covered with lava. Herbicides do affect it but it's a really delicate balancing act. Too little and it won't kill the plant, but just a hair to much and it shuts down into a dormancy mode then comes back months or years later.
Can confirm, as a gardener we treat these like fucking radiologic waste, some countries require you to have a permant to even move part of these plants to waste disposal, you can burn every fucking inch of ground and steam a metre below that and one inch of root will survive and spring back
The natural predators are the big thing. There's no plant which competes with Knotweed. But there is at least one fungus and also insects in Japan which keep it under control there.
Japanese knotweed is like a bioweapon in Europe. It seriously destroys plant life on any land it becomes established within.
Japs are always surprised to learn that knotweed is such a problem, as it never poses a problem there. It has tons of competitors and natural predators so it never becomes a problem. It's even edible and used in Chinese medicine, so East Asians see it as a "good" plant.
In Europe, it's almost impossible to eradicate. You could tear out the roots and spray everything with glyphosate and it will still come back unless if you do everything perfectly.
Yeah, it's not toxic or thorny or anything like that, it's just damn near impossible to get rid of, and it will grow through/in damn near anything. It came from the slopes of volcanoes where it had to be hardy enough to survive being covered with lava. Herbicides do affect it but it's a really delicate balancing act. Too little and it won't kill the plant, but just a hair to much and it shuts down into a dormancy mode then comes back months or years later.
>Japanese Knotweed is a good one
Man that plant is so fucked, and a quick way to permanently kill it has yet to be found. At least, no ways that don't also kill all other plantlife in the area. I've heard about someone literally chopping everything off, burning the cutings, digging up the roots, drilling into the root he couldn't dig up and injecting poison directly into the system.
Two years later, it came back.
What this amigo said. Giant Hogweed is some nasty shit. Once a breeding pair makes landfall, you have an established population, and getting rid of it is literally just flamethrower everything.
>You'll probably hate this video 🙂
Nah, I love Matt. I've been watching him for years.
That won't do shit to Japanese Knotweed other than spread the cuttings around making the problem even worse in a few weeks. People have dug out the ground three meters deep and the shit still comes back.
Just use someone's garden, people are awful about growing the right plants.
Most yards where I live are full of Castor Beans and Firesticks, one of which is unbelievably toxic, the other is obnoxiously caustic.
When the French foreign legion invaded Africa, they lost more soldiers to Firesticks resin melting their skin off than they did enemy armies. Turns out telling your guys to go machete through a field of head-high unknown plants is not a good idea anywhere.
Euphorbia Tirucalli, if you want the scientific name to track it down easier.
Grows easily in any arid or semi-arid climate, makes a nice tall natural fence, and makes anyone who get covered in the sap wish they died instead.
basically every species of Euphorbia (spurges) exude a poisonous sap that will have much the same effect, although IDK if firesticks are the worst about it. it's also the 4th or 5th largest group of flowering plants, with species on every continent. pretty sure all of them have poisonous saps of some kind.
Pic related sucks ass to get on your skin (Euphorbia Trigona), itches and burns on the small spot i got it on. was also only about 5 inches tall when I got it in the mail as a rooted cutting and can get to be the size of a small tree.
Clover fucking sucks to mow in the spring. I've learned from hard experience.
If your enemy uses a push mower, seed his land with that and watch him have to stop every pass to clean the gummed up shit out from under the mower lest he stall out.
because you're not meant to fucking mow it clover is healing the land from retards planting grass and constantly cutting it forcing the grass to suck up everything in the soil.
I have a few large patches on my property.
I just "burp" the mower where I lift it up at an angle using the back wheels as a fulcrum and it sprays it everywhere like a hippo taking a shit.
No you fucking moron leave the clover alone PLANT MORE CLOVER YOU STUPID FUCKING DOUBLEmoron they literally fertilize your yard just by living. Plant some sunflowers too while your at it use them like a border either get big ones 8-12" or go full retard and get the 16-24" monsters with flowers much bigger than a dinner plate. They heal the soil and bees love them once they seed birds love them too. Stop fucking ruining your god damn yards. Go also pick up some moss cut it up add water so its a paste and paint it on rocks/stone slabs it'll grow and take over really quick.
Yeah I know at least you're not "mowing" the lawn with napalm/fire. But still.
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If I could buy surplus agent orange, it's a safe assumption that I would.
I do like going for walks with my dog at the local state park though.
Everything in moderation.
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>it's a safe assumption that I would.
literally fucking why, that shit is more toxic to everything else than plants.
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>it's a safe assumption that I would.
literally fucking why, that shit is more toxic to everything else than plants.
It's helped some. I'm hurt by the poor drainage of the property and not mowing it as regularly as I should in the spring, so sometimes I just stop and dig the shit out.
Release "Empress tree" seeds in an agricultural region.
They produce 2 million seeds per year, grown 15 feet tall in a single year, and cannot die no matter what you do to them. Even if you cut it down to the ground, they spring back within a few months.
Kudzu is some nasty shit. Over in Hawaii the Kudzu plant has begun literally strangling the native vegetation.
Tell me, how bad would it be to genetically modify kudzu to be actively hazardous? Say you make it covered in toxic hairs like Dendrocnide moroides, and make the painful sensations something gets from touching or inhaling it at least 10 times worse and 10 times longer. Make this only happen after it reaches a certain point of maturity, so for about a few months to maybe even a year it just appears to be normal kudzu, then it activates and suddenly you've just denied a shitload of territory to anyone and everyone until someone either sends in hazmat crews to remove them or just burn everything to prevent the spread.
As a bonus, somehow make birds unaffected to any of this shit. Also make this new plant produce some pretty damn good-tasting fruit. Like really, really good. Birds eat it, shit the seeds all over the place, and now you have cities being choked out by these poisonous, hard to kill weeds. Seems like the main drawbacks is that this would be entirely out of human control, so it's just unleashing chaos for the sake of terrorism maybe.
No idea if any of this is even remotely possible either, I'm not that brushed up on gene editing these days.
Just crossbreed it with poison ivy. They already grow in similar climates, the irritants in the ivy are active year-round, and while most people only recall a rash, most people only ever encounter the little piss ant sized vines. I've seen ivy vines as thick as and inch, and that shit will make you miserable for weeks if you get in it.
That's also a good one. Actually, I wonder if you couldn't do both? Something that makes the skin break out in rashes like that, but also contains those poisonous hair things. I also notice the treatment for Dendrocnide moroides is to pull out as many of the hairs as you can so they don't remain stuck under your skin forever. Perhaps there's a way to engineer the hairs to be "jointed", so that they separate in half after entering the skin. You can pull the top half out, but the lower half will remain embedded deep inside the skin. The heavy rashes would make it harder to pull the hairs out anyway. You'd probably need to see a doctor if you touched this hypothetical doom kudzu, you'd have little way to treat yourself and it would be dangerous for others to do it as well if they're not prepared for it.
Giant hogweed. It's massive, invasive in many regions and is the most toxic plant to the touch.
Basically the chemicals in it cause your skin to be unable to resist sun damage, so if you so much as graze the stuff you will start to turbo-sunburn but you won't see the burning and blistering show up until later on and by then the damage is done. And yes, it can kill you.
For real, when people have to clear this stuff up they need to wear full hazmat suits, it's as deadly as it gets
What this amigo said. Giant Hogweed is some nasty shit. Once a breeding pair makes landfall, you have an established population, and getting rid of it is literally just flamethrower everything.
>Standing beneath the tree during rain will cause blistering of the skin from mere contact with this liquid: even a small drop of rain with the milky substance in it will cause the skin to blister.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchineel
beneath the tree during rain will cause blistering of the skin from mere contact with this liquid: even a small drop of rain with the milky substance in it will cause the skin to blist
>For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldn't work or sleep... I remember it feeling like there were giant hands trying to squash my chest... then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower...There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else.
>Physical contact with Dendrocnide moroides is not the only way that it can cause harm to a person—the trichomes are constantly being shed from the plant and may be suspended in the air within its vicinity. They can then be inhaled, which may lead to respiratory complications if a person spends time in close proximity to the plant.
>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides >Gympie gympie is interesting >>For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldn't work or sleep... I remember it feeling like there were giant hands trying to squash my chest... then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower...There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else.
I honestly think Taiwan and other areas should plant this on the beaches - think about trying to establish a foothold during an amphibious landing and the literal trees are fighting you.
In any attack they would probably shell the shit out of the beaches to counter this risk, but my understanding is the burning plant matter also hurts the lungs, so you would have to significantly delay your landing to wait for it all to burn off.
they could handle it like the like they and the soviets were planning to handle attacking into territory they dropped a bunch of tactical nukes on and have everyone in NBC gear
>everyone is in NBC gear but it's just because of the giant hogweed, not like nukes or anything cool like that
gay enough that I can 110% see WW3 starting like this
what if some sort of super giant hogweed that makes regular hogweed look harmless and manageable escapes a lab or something
some sort of plant apocalypse
>everyone is in NBC gear but it's just because of the giant hogweed, not like nukes or anything cool like that
gay enough that I can 110% see WW3 starting like this
>planning to handle attacking into territory they dropped a bunch of tactical nukes on and have everyone in NBC gear
Picrel
atomic age cavalry in full NBC gear(with horse NBC gear) whipping out sabers and attacking an area that just got nuked is the kind of metal shit I crave.
>For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldn't work or sleep... I remember it feeling like there were giant hands trying to squash my chest... then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower...There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else.
>Physical contact with Dendrocnide moroides is not the only way that it can cause harm to a person—the trichomes are constantly being shed from the plant and may be suspended in the air within its vicinity. They can then be inhaled, which may lead to respiratory complications if a person spends time in close proximity to the plant.
>Australian ex-serviceman Cyril Bromley described falling into a stinging tree during military training on the tableland in World War II. Strapped to a hospital bed for three weeks and administered all manner of unsuccessful treatments, he was sent “as mad as a cut snake” by the pain. Cyril also told of an officer shooting himself after using a stinging-tree leaf for “toilet purposes”.
>Australian ex-serviceman Cyril Bromley described falling into a stinging tree during military training on the tableland in World War II. Strapped to a hospital bed for three weeks and administered all manner of unsuccessful treatments, he was sent “as mad as a cut snake” by the pain. Cyril also told of an officer shooting himself after using a stinging-tree leaf for “toilet purposes”.
Well, that's what I get for not reading the thread. This one might be what I was referring to here
I forget the name of this plant, but it's Australian in origin so that should tip you off that it's pretty bad. This thing is covered entirely in these microscopic needles that are nearly impossible to remove once embedded in your skin. They come off the plant and stick inside your skin once you touch it. These needles contain a potent poison of some sort that causes intense pain, most people who touch it need to be restrained to keep them from killing themselves, recovery takes years and most go insane from the torture these needles inflict on them all the while. One account I've heard was a man who used this plant to wipe his ass, ended up shooting himself later that day.
The scary part of it all is that this plant contains zero warning signs whatsoever that it would be harmful. It looks like a normal fucking plant. No bright colors, no visibly hostile apperance at all, it just looks like any other green leafy plant you might find literally anywhere on this planet.
If you want to be a sick bastard, plant a field of these through an area you expect to be assaulted from. When the enemy dives to take cover/concealment in foliage, any exposed skin is bound to touch the plants. These men will either be in such intense agony that they can't do anything but shoot themselves or beg you to do it for them. When it's over, don't go into the field, just burn it all. Call in an airstrike and dump napalm on the entire area until there's no foliage left to remove the hazardous material. It's the only way.
They suck ass because it's super easy to inadvertently drag them in on your clothes, then it's a real unpleasant surprise when you go to sit down, change clothes, etc. Once they get mature and the seeds get hard the little spines can easily break off, then you get to play hide-and-seek in your laundry looking for a super tiny (yet amazingly painful) little needle in the stack.
Those big fuck off seas of thorn bushes in south america they need those special suits to operate in.
Alternatively anything native in the south african area seems like a nightmare to even be around.
humble wild roses are underrated
they are effectively living barbed wire that also looks pretty
if you want to keep people from trespassing, make a thick hedge from these
not only nobody will get past it unharmed, no neighbour will whine about you being that crazy prepper with razor wire fence
I assume because the chemicals in the male plant are different to those found in the female, or the male plant might have more of the chemicals that send you to La La Land, so you have to take a smaller dose to avoid OD'ing.
I assume because the chemicals in the male plant are different to those found in the female, or the male plant might have more of the chemicals that send you to La La Land, so you have to take a smaller dose to avoid OD'ing.
I'm the op you replied to. The sex of the plant has nothing to do with it. Datura is a member of the nightshade family so it's a poison. Dosing involves taking small amounts, not more than a couple grams of seeds or leaves to avoid overdoses
Potato do no care too hot. Potato do no care too cold. Potato no get much water? Please, it no need much water. Potato get too much water? Is time for BIG potato. Potato do no have need of anything no even gravity. In space, scientist of russia have grow potato. They eat the space potato, it taste like ground potato. Potato survive anywhere. Potato survive everywhere. Tomato is squishy, it get bruise from walk in crate to car of farm. Not potato. Potato no care if you deliver to supermarket with bat of the baseball. You hit onion? You now have squash onion. You hit potato? Now you have many piece of potato. Can eat raw. Can boil. Can fry. You can throw in fire and eat like bear, potato? Still good. Cut up and use as stamp. With knife, chop to correct size, can use to fill hole in boat. You can turn potato into vodka, for drink or maybe even use run car engine.
I plant store potatoes that get old and they are impossible to eradicate now
There are just little potatoes everywhere you dig
the vegetation dies off in the freezes but the potatoes remain
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that sounds good
can you just wash off some little potatoes and have potato nuggets any time you want?
Potatoes will synthesize a pretty nasty poison called solanine if they're exposed to light. It's a defense mechanism to prevent exposed taters from being eaten.
Goatheads/puncture vine, they are an annual that creates vines that cover a wide area on the ground, their seeds are spiked to be spread by getting stuck in feet, and once it gets hot enough for the seeds to dry out the spikes get woody and insanely tough, like will puncture bicycle tires easily
Japanese knotweed is like a bioweapon in Europe. It seriously destroys plant life on any land it becomes established within.
Japs are always surprised to learn that knotweed is such a problem, as it never poses a problem there. It has tons of competitors and natural predators so it never becomes a problem. It's even edible and used in Chinese medicine, so East Asians see it as a "good" plant.
In Europe, it's almost impossible to eradicate. You could tear out the roots and spray everything with glyphosate and it will still come back unless if you do everything perfectly.
The natural predators are the big thing. There's no plant which competes with Knotweed. But there is at least one fungus and also insects in Japan which keep it under control there.
Back in the day in my country a pair of boomers decided that Japanese rose bushes are beautiful and they bough it over as a decorative plant.
Well, little did they know back then that it's an invasive species and it's been spreading everywhere. In 2018 the govt. ordered it to be removed completely by 2020 (you must know that it takes 2-3 growth cycles to kill the roots entirely) and most cities and towns only started to root it in 2020
There's another invasive species tht was also importet to my country called the garden lupine or large-leave lupine. They spread like wildfire and can be found next to any highway here, as well as in some boomers gardens where the invasion probably originates from. The plant is native to Alaska so it is well accustomed to life here, but there's no animal or natural competition for it here. The govt has also ordered this one to be culled but the humble boomer stands in eternal opposition to this because it's so pretty or whatever
There's another invasive species tht was also importet to my country called the garden lupine or large-leave lupine. They spread like wildfire and can be found next to any highway here, as well as in some boomers gardens where the invasion probably originates from. The plant is native to Alaska so it is well accustomed to life here, but there's no animal or natural competition for it here. The govt has also ordered this one to be culled but the humble boomer stands in eternal opposition to this because it's so pretty or whatever
Comforts me to know it isn't just the Southern US that's getting blighted with invasive plants because someone decades ago thought it looked nice.
The Red Team (sci fi writers working for the french army to develop various scenarios) wrote a nice one about it, featuring mycelium transforming entire forests into detection tools and ecosystems becoming completely insane
https://redteamdefense.org/en/season-2/an-ecosystem-warfare
Except for weird poisonous stuff I think the best ways to weaponize plants is something that grows into dense impassable tangles and spreads agressively through the roots, bonus points for thorns. Excellent for area denial and can absolutely fuck up property
Jumping cactus
just look at this poor bastard. completely incapacitated.
pretty sure it doesn't have seeds though. it buds or something
I've also been thinking about planting a bunch of sleeping grass in the yard. the leaves close up when touched, so you would be able to see the path any trespasser took in the last 30 mins or so, and if they were barefoot the thorns would fuck them up.
if you were able to get enough on the ground you could see the path anyone walked through your yard (for 30mins or so before it opens back up)
they also have pretty little pink puffball flower things, and thorns, although the thorns won't penetrate clothing/shoes.
What about plants which are known to attract noxious insects? It's no fucking fun when you're working the garden only to discover there's a fucking hornet nest inside the bushes you're standing between.
Not bugs, but Indian Hawthorn is a fucking magnet for deer. Assuming they aren't too busy defoliating those poor bushes, you'll have drawn deer into your targets yard, to feed on whatever else he may have been growing.
Datura is annoying and you should't eat it, but other than that it's not that bad because you can just mow it down before the seeds are ripe and that will decimate it.
I feel that bees would be hard to weaponize because of the fact that they can only sting once. That said, bees are noteworthy because while wasps and ants can have more painful stings, bees are more likely to kill.
Now that said, there are several species of wasps and a handful of ants whose sting is so potent that it instantly debilitates someone, albiet temporarily. And those insects can sting repeatedly.
IMHO something like the Synoeca genus has the most potential. Their sting is extraordinarily painful, while not the highest of any wasp they make up for that by being extremely aggressive and the colonies are numerous. Yeah something like P. Carnifex has a more painful sting but there's only ever a handful of those in a colony and they aren't very aggro.
I have honeybee hives along the border of my more important fields. 50 feet apart. I made heavy vibrators that are battery operated and solar charged I modified from deer feeders along with lights that let them fly to anything moving that triggered the sensors. I then modified the now banned coyote cyanide traps to use attack pheromones. Took out a hog and 2 coyotes with that set up.. Stung to death mere meters from the traps. Apparently they get blinded and confused. The traps spray the pheromones right into their mouths and faces. It wouldn't take much to make these effective against humans.
Poor choice of words on my part. They wouldn't be "hard to weaponize", they'd be "less than ideal". Why have single-use attack insects when you can have multi-use ones?
I have honeybee hives along the border of my more important fields. 50 feet apart. I made heavy vibrators that are battery operated and solar charged I modified from deer feeders along with lights that let them fly to anything moving that triggered the sensors. I then modified the now banned coyote cyanide traps to use attack pheromones. Took out a hog and 2 coyotes with that set up.. Stung to death mere meters from the traps. Apparently they get blinded and confused. The traps spray the pheromones right into their mouths and faces. It wouldn't take much to make these effective against humans.
said, they react violently the moment they detect disturbances + vibrations
what better way to double up on your protection than: >flowering cacti/rose bushes >a bee hive every 5-10 feet, bred with reasonably aggressive but not overly aggressive genes (read: not africanized-tier or russian-tier) and armed with vibrator alarms and pheromone grenades
I have honeybee hives along the border of my more important fields. 50 feet apart. I made heavy vibrators that are battery operated and solar charged I modified from deer feeders along with lights that let them fly to anything moving that triggered the sensors. I then modified the now banned coyote cyanide traps to use attack pheromones. Took out a hog and 2 coyotes with that set up.. Stung to death mere meters from the traps. Apparently they get blinded and confused. The traps spray the pheromones right into their mouths and faces. It wouldn't take much to make these effective against humans.
well to be fair, bees will primarily target oxygen producing/sensitive orifaces and dark colors the most. Chances are even if they weren't sprayed, the type of bee strain you have may also target those fuckers directly. Africanized honey bees will even shoot venom directly into the eyes and nose of a person with a veil if they cannot directly reach said orifaces and will further mark them like a neon sign to tell the hive "hey, this fucker is RIGHT HERE, destroy this dumb retard!"
>said, they react violently the moment they detect disturbances + vibrations
My point wasn't that they would be hard to make attack. My point is that it really sucks when they *die in the process*
that is true, but their numbers can be easily replaced if given the proper care
take for example, the Italian strain. Much like actual Italians, queens will primarily focus solely one brood rearing, constantly producing fertilized eggs even well into the winter.
The plus side is that you will have explosive populations so long as you maintain a steady amount of space and food
the downside however is that they will continue to lay eggs and rear brood even in the winter, which will quickly eat into their reserves when nectar-producing flowers die out.
a careful amount of man-made selection could net you with a strain of bees that can: >reasonably replace their numbers after a skirmish >are aggressive enough to pursue targets well beyond the bounds of their hive >generally not AS aggressive towards you to perform general maintenance
it can work, but it would require a lot of investment and a generalized knowledge of local hive pests and diseases, especially if your area is well known for chalkbrood, aka the cordycepts of bees
>they can only sting once
This is semi false. They can sting more than once its just human skin causes them to get stuck.
Asian hornets if you want to be a monster those fuckers are xbox HEUG and spit they also attack any and everything that moves just because you made them mad. Some retard(odds are chinese spy they have been ruining our ecosystem for 2 decades now) brought some into Canada and they have slowly set up hives in one city. I think you can find the euro/asian giants in murica too.
ripping off their customers is the core of their business model, so ripping off an 18th century Danish entomologist is hardly out of character for them
A solid 90% of their IP has been lifted whole cloth from other sources, and the remaining 10% is hiding behind a generous interpretation of "transformative work."
Low iq sneeder, go finger your asshole and debate 9mm vs 45 for the thousandth time or screech your last braincells away over nato / russian propaganda.
This is the exact type of shit a PrepHole weapons board was always made for.
the least poisonous organism native to Australia
Yes. But only if you contribute one (1) post with your own ideas or cool resources.
Lets discuss the weaponization potential of various plants
Mycology bros cordially invited
ricin, ergot, solanine and chaconine, take time to cultivate. hog weed will move you from your hidey hole soon enough and bramble will keep you locked in.
i assume you are looking to secure but not advance/attack?
what's a woody shrub that grows to about chest height, is covered in spikes/thorns, and produces colorful and poisonous-to-mammals flowers and/or berries that attract pollinators and/or birds
Hawthorn?
The berries it produces (Sloe Berries) will turn your mouth inside out due to how sour they are, but Thrushes and other large birds seem to like them.
Heracleum sosnowskyi or Giant hogweed
Stand near it on a sunny day or try to remove it and your skin will peel away in a few days.
Spreads easily and grows fast, once established difficult to get rid of.
I know a good source of seeds near my place.
This shit. This cattle feed plants introduction in Europe, outside of it's natural region in Caucasus is arguably one of the worst ecological things that soviets has ever done. If you travel from EU side into russia, there are kilometers long fields filled only with them. They are basically carrot family plants, but on heavy roids. Multiple year plants, that have an unpleasant smell, multiple blooming cycles and they can have up to 2000 seeds/year each. They start to sprout in early spring and can grow 4 meters tall. It forms an ideal wall to protect your property, because no one in their right mind would even go near them once they have had the opportunity to come in contact with it's juice. Sometimes you don't even have to cut/damage it, to get the juice on you. Once you get it on your skin, it reacts in UV light and becomes an absolute nightmare to have. Can't sleep at nights due to itchiness, the blisters, once mature, pop and make new blisters that itch like crazy, until they mature. If you scratch them, you can spread them to other, non infected places on body that you touch later, without washing your hands thoroughly. The cycle can continue for up to 3 weeks. Also, if you get it in excessive amounts on you, or just some juice in your eyes, you can become blind.
I have been dealing with them for years and only way to get rid of them is to dig them out consequently for several years, multiple times a year. They grow massive leaves that overshadow all other plants around them, and the natural flora gets destroyed, meaning that in just 2 to 3 years in non-controlled environment, a flourishing meadow becomes a monoculture of them.
only way to get rid of those completely is delegate the task to automated drones that will scour the land fuck the inflorescences up on sight, so that no more gets spawned.
I forget the name of this plant, but it's Australian in origin so that should tip you off that it's pretty bad. This thing is covered entirely in these microscopic needles that are nearly impossible to remove once embedded in your skin. They come off the plant and stick inside your skin once you touch it. These needles contain a potent poison of some sort that causes intense pain, most people who touch it need to be restrained to keep them from killing themselves, recovery takes years and most go insane from the torture these needles inflict on them all the while. One account I've heard was a man who used this plant to wipe his ass, ended up shooting himself later that day.
The scary part of it all is that this plant contains zero warning signs whatsoever that it would be harmful. It looks like a normal fucking plant. No bright colors, no visibly hostile apperance at all, it just looks like any other green leafy plant you might find literally anywhere on this planet.
If you want to be a sick bastard, plant a field of these through an area you expect to be assaulted from. When the enemy dives to take cover/concealment in foliage, any exposed skin is bound to touch the plants. These men will either be in such intense agony that they can't do anything but shoot themselves or beg you to do it for them. When it's over, don't go into the field, just burn it all. Call in an airstrike and dump napalm on the entire area until there's no foliage left to remove the hazardous material. It's the only way.
>most people who touch it need to be restrained to keep them from killing themselves, recovery takes years and most go insane from the torture >One account I've heard was a man who used this plant to wipe his ass, ended up shooting himself later that day.
Meanwhile irl: After contact with the plant the victim will feel an immediate severe burning and stinging at the site of contact, which then intensifies further over the next 20 to 30 minutes and will last from hours to several days before subsiding.[3][17][21] During this time the victim may get little sleep because of the intensity of the pain.[3] In severe cases it may cause urticaria, and the lymph glands under the arms may swell and become painful,[3][17][21] and there have been rare cases of hospitalisation.[15][16][17][22]
water caltrop nuts were used as, well, caltrops in a pinch, supposedly. There's prob an account of someone spilling a bag to slow a pursuit. Never researched it
for a more indirect root one could target the enemy's crops by dropping tons of cuscata on them, that'll choke em out quick. it would be far more effective than any amount of napalm
certain plants are known as housebreakers because they can punch through anything, including concrete. seed moron residences with bamboo and they won't be able to do shid about it.
You'd think if plants were easily weaponized, they would have been already in Mesoamerica: The region didn't have much metal weapons or armor, and even used things like feathers in armor, and had cactus, agave, etc as potential points, yet they didn't really use those for weapons, just spines for sewing or piercing for bloodletting.
shows it can be effective as points though
also I'm assuming we're disregarding the weaponization of wood for weapons and textiles or wood or reeds/bamboo for armor/clothing, which were obviously widespread things across the globe
Gorse
This fucking spiky yellow shit. Once its roots are in its almost impossible to get rid of and spreads really quickly.
In ireland where I live, farmers regularly burn this shit and it still comes back and spreads further.
What are the nastiest plant seeds that could be realistically sprouted via seed shell? Be creative anons!
Bonus points for non directly harmful plants, the funnier the better.
Heres a few ideas
>fast growing plants like kudzu or bamboo can completely redefine a patch of land, growing conditions permitting. A blend of invasive plante suited for various climated could wreck about any yard or lot.
>datura provides a durable, obnoxious, highly hallucenogenic eye sore, frequently eaten by critters and idiots
>hemp basically grows a natural forest of super fucking tough rope
>common noxious weeds of all sorts can be super shitty to try and get rid of
Japanese Knotweed is a good one.
The sandbox tree would be fucking cool but it has very limited growing conditions:
>toxic
>covered in thorns with poisonous sap
>explosively shoots its seeds away from the tree to distances exceeding 100m and at speeds over 160 mph.
Holy shit
>Japanese Knotweed is a good one
Man that plant is so fucked, and a quick way to permanently kill it has yet to be found. At least, no ways that don't also kill all other plantlife in the area. I've heard about someone literally chopping everything off, burning the cutings, digging up the roots, drilling into the root he couldn't dig up and injecting poison directly into the system.
Two years later, it came back.
Yeah, it's not toxic or thorny or anything like that, it's just damn near impossible to get rid of, and it will grow through/in damn near anything. It came from the slopes of volcanoes where it had to be hardy enough to survive being covered with lava. Herbicides do affect it but it's a really delicate balancing act. Too little and it won't kill the plant, but just a hair to much and it shuts down into a dormancy mode then comes back months or years later.
Do goats eat it?
They do. It's actually very edible, even to humans. The problem is that it murders everything else around it outside of its native range.
Can confirm, as a gardener we treat these like fucking radiologic waste, some countries require you to have a permant to even move part of these plants to waste disposal, you can burn every fucking inch of ground and steam a metre below that and one inch of root will survive and spring back
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>You'll probably hate this video 🙂
Nah, I love Matt. I've been watching him for years.
That won't do shit to Japanese Knotweed other than spread the cuttings around making the problem even worse in a few weeks. People have dug out the ground three meters deep and the shit still comes back.
Yeah that's what I meant. He's spreading it 🙂
That is some Metroid Prime level shit there.
Black locust. Tough seeds, thorny, fixes nitrogen, and spreads by the roots whenever it's cut back.
Heracleum sosnowskyi
Nothing is worse than this shit
>seed planting shotgun shells
load these babies up with cannabis seeds
you are now twelve gauge Johnny Appleseed
Just use someone's garden, people are awful about growing the right plants.
Most yards where I live are full of Castor Beans and Firesticks, one of which is unbelievably toxic, the other is obnoxiously caustic.
When the French foreign legion invaded Africa, they lost more soldiers to Firesticks resin melting their skin off than they did enemy armies. Turns out telling your guys to go machete through a field of head-high unknown plants is not a good idea anywhere.
Euphorbia Tirucalli, if you want the scientific name to track it down easier.
Grows easily in any arid or semi-arid climate, makes a nice tall natural fence, and makes anyone who get covered in the sap wish they died instead.
>Euphorbia Tirucalli
basically every species of Euphorbia (spurges) exude a poisonous sap that will have much the same effect, although IDK if firesticks are the worst about it. it's also the 4th or 5th largest group of flowering plants, with species on every continent. pretty sure all of them have poisonous saps of some kind.
Pic related sucks ass to get on your skin (Euphorbia Trigona), itches and burns on the small spot i got it on. was also only about 5 inches tall when I got it in the mail as a rooted cutting and can get to be the size of a small tree.
>kudzu
didn't know that was a real plant
Clover fucking sucks to mow in the spring. I've learned from hard experience.
If your enemy uses a push mower, seed his land with that and watch him have to stop every pass to clean the gummed up shit out from under the mower lest he stall out.
because you're not meant to fucking mow it clover is healing the land from retards planting grass and constantly cutting it forcing the grass to suck up everything in the soil.
I have a few large patches on my property.
I just "burp" the mower where I lift it up at an angle using the back wheels as a fulcrum and it sprays it everywhere like a hippo taking a shit.
No you fucking moron leave the clover alone PLANT MORE CLOVER YOU STUPID FUCKING DOUBLEmoron they literally fertilize your yard just by living. Plant some sunflowers too while your at it use them like a border either get big ones 8-12" or go full retard and get the 16-24" monsters with flowers much bigger than a dinner plate. They heal the soil and bees love them once they seed birds love them too. Stop fucking ruining your god damn yards. Go also pick up some moss cut it up add water so its a paste and paint it on rocks/stone slabs it'll grow and take over really quick.
This isn't PrepHole.
Yeah I know at least you're not "mowing" the lawn with napalm/fire. But still.
If I could buy surplus agent orange, it's a safe assumption that I would.
I do like going for walks with my dog at the local state park though.
Everything in moderation.
>it's a safe assumption that I would.
literally fucking why, that shit is more toxic to everything else than plants.
This. Agent White is the shit.
It's helped some. I'm hurt by the poor drainage of the property and not mowing it as regularly as I should in the spring, so sometimes I just stop and dig the shit out.
Clover is basically spinach. It is one of the best yard plants and nitrogen fixes and feeds bees. Only a fucking boomer could hate clover.
Clover is a low plant and doesn't need to be mowed as it only grows a few inches tall.
Release "Empress tree" seeds in an agricultural region.
They produce 2 million seeds per year, grown 15 feet tall in a single year, and cannot die no matter what you do to them. Even if you cut it down to the ground, they spring back within a few months.
Tell me, how bad would it be to genetically modify kudzu to be actively hazardous? Say you make it covered in toxic hairs like Dendrocnide moroides, and make the painful sensations something gets from touching or inhaling it at least 10 times worse and 10 times longer. Make this only happen after it reaches a certain point of maturity, so for about a few months to maybe even a year it just appears to be normal kudzu, then it activates and suddenly you've just denied a shitload of territory to anyone and everyone until someone either sends in hazmat crews to remove them or just burn everything to prevent the spread.
As a bonus, somehow make birds unaffected to any of this shit. Also make this new plant produce some pretty damn good-tasting fruit. Like really, really good. Birds eat it, shit the seeds all over the place, and now you have cities being choked out by these poisonous, hard to kill weeds. Seems like the main drawbacks is that this would be entirely out of human control, so it's just unleashing chaos for the sake of terrorism maybe.
No idea if any of this is even remotely possible either, I'm not that brushed up on gene editing these days.
calm down satan
you'd probably enjoy reading the madaddam trilogy
Just crossbreed it with poison ivy. They already grow in similar climates, the irritants in the ivy are active year-round, and while most people only recall a rash, most people only ever encounter the little piss ant sized vines. I've seen ivy vines as thick as and inch, and that shit will make you miserable for weeks if you get in it.
That's also a good one. Actually, I wonder if you couldn't do both? Something that makes the skin break out in rashes like that, but also contains those poisonous hair things. I also notice the treatment for Dendrocnide moroides is to pull out as many of the hairs as you can so they don't remain stuck under your skin forever. Perhaps there's a way to engineer the hairs to be "jointed", so that they separate in half after entering the skin. You can pull the top half out, but the lower half will remain embedded deep inside the skin. The heavy rashes would make it harder to pull the hairs out anyway. You'd probably need to see a doctor if you touched this hypothetical doom kudzu, you'd have little way to treat yourself and it would be dangerous for others to do it as well if they're not prepared for it.
Giant hogweed. It's massive, invasive in many regions and is the most toxic plant to the touch.
Basically the chemicals in it cause your skin to be unable to resist sun damage, so if you so much as graze the stuff you will start to turbo-sunburn but you won't see the burning and blistering show up until later on and by then the damage is done. And yes, it can kill you.
For real, when people have to clear this stuff up they need to wear full hazmat suits, it's as deadly as it gets
This shit has been spreading like a plague next to highways in my country. I think they thrive on some kind of pollutant
what plants not only take care of the problem but also are beneficial to the enviornment?
Just Hemp?
Giant hogsweed, 'nuff said. Alternatively, just burn a big pile of poison ivy around people you hate.
What this amigo said. Giant Hogweed is some nasty shit. Once a breeding pair makes landfall, you have an established population, and getting rid of it is literally just flamethrower everything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchineel
>Standing beneath the tree during rain will cause blistering of the skin from mere contact with this liquid: even a small drop of rain with the milky substance in it will cause the skin to blister.
As a bonus, they look much like apples so dumb people keep trying to take a bite out of them.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchineel
beneath the tree during rain will cause blistering of the skin from mere contact with this liquid: even a small drop of rain with the milky substance in it will cause the skin to blist
>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides
>Gympie gympie is interesting
>>For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldn't work or sleep... I remember it feeling like there were giant hands trying to squash my chest... then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower...There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else.
I honestly think Taiwan and other areas should plant this on the beaches - think about trying to establish a foothold during an amphibious landing and the literal trees are fighting you.
In any attack they would probably shell the shit out of the beaches to counter this risk, but my understanding is the burning plant matter also hurts the lungs, so you would have to significantly delay your landing to wait for it all to burn off.
they could handle it like the like they and the soviets were planning to handle attacking into territory they dropped a bunch of tactical nukes on and have everyone in NBC gear
>everyone is in NBC gear but it's just because of the giant hogweed, not like nukes or anything cool like that
gay enough that I can 110% see WW3 starting like this
we need to make agent orange look like a fucking joke and commit another vegetable holocaust
what if some sort of super giant hogweed that makes regular hogweed look harmless and manageable escapes a lab or something
some sort of plant apocalypse
we're already dealing with a slow creeping plantpocalypse with current giant hogweeds
>planning to handle attacking into territory they dropped a bunch of tactical nukes on and have everyone in NBC gear
Picrel
atomic age cavalry in full NBC gear(with horse NBC gear) whipping out sabers and attacking an area that just got nuked is the kind of metal shit I crave.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides
Gympie gympie is interesting
>For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldn't work or sleep... I remember it feeling like there were giant hands trying to squash my chest... then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower...There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else.
>Physical contact with Dendrocnide moroides is not the only way that it can cause harm to a person—the trichomes are constantly being shed from the plant and may be suspended in the air within its vicinity. They can then be inhaled, which may lead to respiratory complications if a person spends time in close proximity to the plant.
I have a lot of seeds for this, I need to germinate them soon.
oops wrong pic, I didn't mean to post my penis
Anon, why are you growing Pain Trees at home?
the least poisonous organism native to Australia
>Australian ex-serviceman Cyril Bromley described falling into a stinging tree during military training on the tableland in World War II. Strapped to a hospital bed for three weeks and administered all manner of unsuccessful treatments, he was sent “as mad as a cut snake” by the pain. Cyril also told of an officer shooting himself after using a stinging-tree leaf for “toilet purposes”.
sweet mother of god
Well, that's what I get for not reading the thread. This one might be what I was referring to here
>the real reason dropbears are so angry
god please no
What's the big deal? My whole yard is sandburs. I like to wait for the seeds to mature before I mow and then it's no biggie
They suck ass because it's super easy to inadvertently drag them in on your clothes, then it's a real unpleasant surprise when you go to sit down, change clothes, etc. Once they get mature and the seeds get hard the little spines can easily break off, then you get to play hide-and-seek in your laundry looking for a super tiny (yet amazingly painful) little needle in the stack.
they're Nature's Legos
Those big fuck off seas of thorn bushes in south america they need those special suits to operate in.
Alternatively anything native in the south african area seems like a nightmare to even be around.
humble wild roses are underrated
they are effectively living barbed wire that also looks pretty
if you want to keep people from trespassing, make a thick hedge from these
not only nobody will get past it unharmed, no neighbour will whine about you being that crazy prepper with razor wire fence
oh man
That pic reminds me of Donkey Kong 2
I'd go with Pyracantha for ersatz-barbed wire, the thorns cause wounds that take ages to heal. Also berries.
Why not both, people usually plant things like that along with or inside of rose bushes.
because roses are for people who enjoy gardening as a hobby and don't mind having to be autistic about their shrubbery
I grow datura stramonium at home
crazy as fuck to ever try it. If its the wrong gender plant you can and will go blind
What, why? What would make a male plant different?
Also you might go blind regardless though, that shit fucks your day up.
I assume because the chemicals in the male plant are different to those found in the female, or the male plant might have more of the chemicals that send you to La La Land, so you have to take a smaller dose to avoid OD'ing.
I'm the op you replied to. The sex of the plant has nothing to do with it. Datura is a member of the nightshade family so it's a poison. Dosing involves taking small amounts, not more than a couple grams of seeds or leaves to avoid overdoses
>Datura is a member of the nightshade family so it's a poison.
redpill me on potatoes
They are a suckier version of tomtatoes.
Potato do no care too hot. Potato do no care too cold. Potato no get much water? Please, it no need much water. Potato get too much water? Is time for BIG potato. Potato do no have need of anything no even gravity. In space, scientist of russia have grow potato. They eat the space potato, it taste like ground potato. Potato survive anywhere. Potato survive everywhere. Tomato is squishy, it get bruise from walk in crate to car of farm. Not potato. Potato no care if you deliver to supermarket with bat of the baseball. You hit onion? You now have squash onion. You hit potato? Now you have many piece of potato. Can eat raw. Can boil. Can fry. You can throw in fire and eat like bear, potato? Still good. Cut up and use as stamp. With knife, chop to correct size, can use to fill hole in boat. You can turn potato into vodka, for drink or maybe even use run car engine.
I plant store potatoes that get old and they are impossible to eradicate now
There are just little potatoes everywhere you dig
the vegetation dies off in the freezes but the potatoes remain
that sounds good
can you just wash off some little potatoes and have potato nuggets any time you want?
Potatoes will synthesize a pretty nasty poison called solanine if they're exposed to light. It's a defense mechanism to prevent exposed taters from being eaten.
I spy with my little eye some penis cactus in the background. Trichocereus bridgesii monstrose
Goatheads/puncture vine, they are an annual that creates vines that cover a wide area on the ground, their seeds are spiked to be spread by getting stuck in feet, and once it gets hot enough for the seeds to dry out the spikes get woody and insanely tough, like will puncture bicycle tires easily
Eucalyptus seeds. Just plant them in enemy forests and let god sort out the rest
>let God sort out the rest in His own sweet time
finally a reason to like Australians other than their funny accent and liberal use of the word cunt
Japanese knotweed is like a bioweapon in Europe. It seriously destroys plant life on any land it becomes established within.
Japs are always surprised to learn that knotweed is such a problem, as it never poses a problem there. It has tons of competitors and natural predators so it never becomes a problem. It's even edible and used in Chinese medicine, so East Asians see it as a "good" plant.
In Europe, it's almost impossible to eradicate. You could tear out the roots and spray everything with glyphosate and it will still come back unless if you do everything perfectly.
The natural predators are the big thing. There's no plant which competes with Knotweed. But there is at least one fungus and also insects in Japan which keep it under control there.
>There's no plant which competes with Knotweed
I thought that bamboo and silvergrasses are competitors in East Asia.
Back in the day in my country a pair of boomers decided that Japanese rose bushes are beautiful and they bough it over as a decorative plant.
Well, little did they know back then that it's an invasive species and it's been spreading everywhere. In 2018 the govt. ordered it to be removed completely by 2020 (you must know that it takes 2-3 growth cycles to kill the roots entirely) and most cities and towns only started to root it in 2020
Brits intentionally imported giant hogweed into the UK to plant in their botanical gardens because they thought it looked nice.
There's another invasive species tht was also importet to my country called the garden lupine or large-leave lupine. They spread like wildfire and can be found next to any highway here, as well as in some boomers gardens where the invasion probably originates from. The plant is native to Alaska so it is well accustomed to life here, but there's no animal or natural competition for it here. The govt has also ordered this one to be culled but the humble boomer stands in eternal opposition to this because it's so pretty or whatever
Comforts me to know it isn't just the Southern US that's getting blighted with invasive plants because someone decades ago thought it looked nice.
>Weaponized Flora
lots of poison here
Man i wish we had more great threads like this, i fucking love plants
The Red Team (sci fi writers working for the french army to develop various scenarios) wrote a nice one about it, featuring mycelium transforming entire forests into detection tools and ecosystems becoming completely insane
https://redteamdefense.org/en/season-2/an-ecosystem-warfare
>The Red Team
Their website is fucking awesome, their scenarios are pretty good.
God damn i wish i had more stuff like this to read.
They wrote a whole book but i don't think you can find it in non-frog language
Good thread!
So which plants could be planted at the southern border to completely seal it off against illegals and other invaders?
Based idea. Have to survive in arid weather though. And monsoon season. That kinda makes it hard for anything
Except for weird poisonous stuff I think the best ways to weaponize plants is something that grows into dense impassable tangles and spreads agressively through the roots, bonus points for thorns. Excellent for area denial and can absolutely fuck up property
Jumping cactus
just look at this poor bastard. completely incapacitated.
pretty sure it doesn't have seeds though. it buds or something
I've also been thinking about planting a bunch of sleeping grass in the yard. the leaves close up when touched, so you would be able to see the path any trespasser took in the last 30 mins or so, and if they were barefoot the thorns would fuck them up.
That sounds amazing ^.^
Keep us updated on /diy or something
Unfortunately, they can't flourish in my mid european climate zone
But it seems they grow in the mexico-US border region, so maybe some illegal migrants were stopped by them.
Sounds cool
if you were able to get enough on the ground you could see the path anyone walked through your yard (for 30mins or so before it opens back up)
they also have pretty little pink puffball flower things, and thorns, although the thorns won't penetrate clothing/shoes.
funny brap plant
Datura trip reports on Erowid are some of the wildest shit and always fun to read.
>Erowid
Holy shit, it's still around? What a blast from the past.
I still consult Erowid before any new experiences.
>ate some datura once and hit the gym, it was an interesting experience but ultimately disastrous
yeah
What about plants which are known to attract noxious insects? It's no fucking fun when you're working the garden only to discover there's a fucking hornet nest inside the bushes you're standing between.
Not bugs, but Indian Hawthorn is a fucking magnet for deer. Assuming they aren't too busy defoliating those poor bushes, you'll have drawn deer into your targets yard, to feed on whatever else he may have been growing.
Kudzu
Datura is annoying and you should't eat it, but other than that it's not that bad because you can just mow it down before the seeds are ripe and that will decimate it.
now this shit is floral terrorism.
blackberries. in wet areas they grow so fast and make land impassable on foot.
>also hell yeah berries.
blackberries are nowhere near as wicked as dog rose (your own pic related)
>also hell yeah, rose hips
can we also discuss weaponizing insects too?
Especially bees?
Please?
I feel that bees would be hard to weaponize because of the fact that they can only sting once. That said, bees are noteworthy because while wasps and ants can have more painful stings, bees are more likely to kill.
Now that said, there are several species of wasps and a handful of ants whose sting is so potent that it instantly debilitates someone, albiet temporarily. And those insects can sting repeatedly.
IMHO something like the Synoeca genus has the most potential. Their sting is extraordinarily painful, while not the highest of any wasp they make up for that by being extremely aggressive and the colonies are numerous. Yeah something like P. Carnifex has a more painful sting but there's only ever a handful of those in a colony and they aren't very aggro.
I have honeybee hives along the border of my more important fields. 50 feet apart. I made heavy vibrators that are battery operated and solar charged I modified from deer feeders along with lights that let them fly to anything moving that triggered the sensors. I then modified the now banned coyote cyanide traps to use attack pheromones. Took out a hog and 2 coyotes with that set up.. Stung to death mere meters from the traps. Apparently they get blinded and confused. The traps spray the pheromones right into their mouths and faces. It wouldn't take much to make these effective against humans.
Poor choice of words on my part. They wouldn't be "hard to weaponize", they'd be "less than ideal". Why have single-use attack insects when you can have multi-use ones?
that's badass
damn man
to be fair like
said, they react violently the moment they detect disturbances + vibrations
what better way to double up on your protection than:
>flowering cacti/rose bushes
>a bee hive every 5-10 feet, bred with reasonably aggressive but not overly aggressive genes (read: not africanized-tier or russian-tier) and armed with vibrator alarms and pheromone grenades
well to be fair, bees will primarily target oxygen producing/sensitive orifaces and dark colors the most. Chances are even if they weren't sprayed, the type of bee strain you have may also target those fuckers directly. Africanized honey bees will even shoot venom directly into the eyes and nose of a person with a veil if they cannot directly reach said orifaces and will further mark them like a neon sign to tell the hive "hey, this fucker is RIGHT HERE, destroy this dumb retard!"
>said, they react violently the moment they detect disturbances + vibrations
My point wasn't that they would be hard to make attack. My point is that it really sucks when they *die in the process*
that is true, but their numbers can be easily replaced if given the proper care
take for example, the Italian strain. Much like actual Italians, queens will primarily focus solely one brood rearing, constantly producing fertilized eggs even well into the winter.
The plus side is that you will have explosive populations so long as you maintain a steady amount of space and food
the downside however is that they will continue to lay eggs and rear brood even in the winter, which will quickly eat into their reserves when nectar-producing flowers die out.
a careful amount of man-made selection could net you with a strain of bees that can:
>reasonably replace their numbers after a skirmish
>are aggressive enough to pursue targets well beyond the bounds of their hive
>generally not AS aggressive towards you to perform general maintenance
it can work, but it would require a lot of investment and a generalized knowledge of local hive pests and diseases, especially if your area is well known for chalkbrood, aka the cordycepts of bees
>P. Carnifex
So, was the scientist who discovered this a 40k fan?
probably
nerds gonna nerd
Most scientific names are in latin anon. GW doesn't own the rights to the latin language yet.
some of them get kinda ridiculous, my favourite is Metasequoia Glyptostroboides
You want to see ridiculous names?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bony-eared_assfish
>they can only sting once
This is semi false. They can sting more than once its just human skin causes them to get stuck.
Asian hornets if you want to be a monster those fuckers are xbox HEUG and spit they also attack any and everything that moves just because you made them mad. Some retard(odds are chinese spy they have been ruining our ecosystem for 2 decades now) brought some into Canada and they have slowly set up hives in one city. I think you can find the euro/asian giants in murica too.
It was discovered and named in 1775 so no.
So then GW ripped off science.
ripping off their customers is the core of their business model, so ripping off an 18th century Danish entomologist is hardly out of character for them
A solid 90% of their IP has been lifted whole cloth from other sources, and the remaining 10% is hiding behind a generous interpretation of "transformative work."
Read up on the Insect Allies program going on right now.
Dogs with bees? When the dogs bark they shoot bees out of their mouth?
16 year old hands typed this
Low iq sneeder, go finger your asshole and debate 9mm vs 45 for the thousandth time or screech your last braincells away over nato / russian propaganda.
This is the exact type of shit a PrepHole weapons board was always made for.
Yes. But only if you contribute one (1) post with your own ideas or cool resources.
a truth for
to learn
ricin, ergot, solanine and chaconine, take time to cultivate. hog weed will move you from your hidey hole soon enough and bramble will keep you locked in.
i assume you are looking to secure but not advance/attack?
what the fuck is that cat's problem
Bobcats just like chilling on cactuses.
12 year old hands typed this gay, what are you, 8th grade and first time here? gay bitch
Fun fact: nobody cares
This is a Hyper Elite Tier 1A White Man Deluxe™ thread.
what's a woody shrub that grows to about chest height, is covered in spikes/thorns, and produces colorful and poisonous-to-mammals flowers and/or berries that attract pollinators and/or birds
Hawthorn?
The berries it produces (Sloe Berries) will turn your mouth inside out due to how sour they are, but Thrushes and other large birds seem to like them.
Berberis julianae/thunbergii, although the berries aren't poisonous to humans (B. vulgaris can be eaten)
Otherwise simply holly (Ilex aquifolium),quite poisonous, good for birds, although the thorny leaves aren't that dissuasive
Hear me out
Bees
But instead of venom they have 2 chemical compounds inside themselves that explodes when mixed
Basically kamikaze bees
>2 chemical compounds inside themselves that explodes when mixed
Bombardier beetles do that.
Heracleum sosnowskyi or Giant hogweed
Stand near it on a sunny day or try to remove it and your skin will peel away in a few days.
Spreads easily and grows fast, once established difficult to get rid of.
I know a good source of seeds near my place.
This shit. This cattle feed plants introduction in Europe, outside of it's natural region in Caucasus is arguably one of the worst ecological things that soviets has ever done. If you travel from EU side into russia, there are kilometers long fields filled only with them. They are basically carrot family plants, but on heavy roids. Multiple year plants, that have an unpleasant smell, multiple blooming cycles and they can have up to 2000 seeds/year each. They start to sprout in early spring and can grow 4 meters tall. It forms an ideal wall to protect your property, because no one in their right mind would even go near them once they have had the opportunity to come in contact with it's juice. Sometimes you don't even have to cut/damage it, to get the juice on you. Once you get it on your skin, it reacts in UV light and becomes an absolute nightmare to have. Can't sleep at nights due to itchiness, the blisters, once mature, pop and make new blisters that itch like crazy, until they mature. If you scratch them, you can spread them to other, non infected places on body that you touch later, without washing your hands thoroughly. The cycle can continue for up to 3 weeks. Also, if you get it in excessive amounts on you, or just some juice in your eyes, you can become blind.
I have been dealing with them for years and only way to get rid of them is to dig them out consequently for several years, multiple times a year. They grow massive leaves that overshadow all other plants around them, and the natural flora gets destroyed, meaning that in just 2 to 3 years in non-controlled environment, a flourishing meadow becomes a monoculture of them.
only way to get rid of those completely is delegate the task to automated drones that will scour the land fuck the inflorescences up on sight, so that no more gets spawned.
I forget the name of this plant, but it's Australian in origin so that should tip you off that it's pretty bad. This thing is covered entirely in these microscopic needles that are nearly impossible to remove once embedded in your skin. They come off the plant and stick inside your skin once you touch it. These needles contain a potent poison of some sort that causes intense pain, most people who touch it need to be restrained to keep them from killing themselves, recovery takes years and most go insane from the torture these needles inflict on them all the while. One account I've heard was a man who used this plant to wipe his ass, ended up shooting himself later that day.
The scary part of it all is that this plant contains zero warning signs whatsoever that it would be harmful. It looks like a normal fucking plant. No bright colors, no visibly hostile apperance at all, it just looks like any other green leafy plant you might find literally anywhere on this planet.
If you want to be a sick bastard, plant a field of these through an area you expect to be assaulted from. When the enemy dives to take cover/concealment in foliage, any exposed skin is bound to touch the plants. These men will either be in such intense agony that they can't do anything but shoot themselves or beg you to do it for them. When it's over, don't go into the field, just burn it all. Call in an airstrike and dump napalm on the entire area until there's no foliage left to remove the hazardous material. It's the only way.
It's the Gympie Gympie Tree
>most people who touch it need to be restrained to keep them from killing themselves, recovery takes years and most go insane from the torture
>One account I've heard was a man who used this plant to wipe his ass, ended up shooting himself later that day.
Meanwhile irl: After contact with the plant the victim will feel an immediate severe burning and stinging at the site of contact, which then intensifies further over the next 20 to 30 minutes and will last from hours to several days before subsiding.[3][17][21] During this time the victim may get little sleep because of the intensity of the pain.[3] In severe cases it may cause urticaria, and the lymph glands under the arms may swell and become painful,[3][17][21] and there have been rare cases of hospitalisation.[15][16][17][22]
>Wipe Your Ass With Australian TP Without Killing Yourself Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE?)
It didn't say that a year or two ago. Honestly fuck wikipedia.
water caltrop nuts were used as, well, caltrops in a pinch, supposedly. There's prob an account of someone spilling a bag to slow a pursuit. Never researched it
someone post the cactus flail
>weaponized Flora
>mfw
I have holly with poison ivy mixed in with it. I'm immune to the shit, it's like a 1/10 chance.
Kudzu is some nasty shit. Over in Hawaii the Kudzu plant has begun literally strangling the native vegetation.
it's black mold the vax is black mold
not all but most
witchcraft mutants cyborgs
Blackberries instead of razor wire.
My garden is constantly being assaulted by the most heinous enemy, the ground elder.
I HATE THE GROUND ELDER
We can merge ourselves with plants via genetic modification and have plant powers in geneticpunk utopia
Nice try department of agriculture
Don't do it, bro, that's how the flood started, dog.
I'd like to plant a hedge of honey locust trees.
for a more indirect root one could target the enemy's crops by dropping tons of cuscata on them, that'll choke em out quick. it would be far more effective than any amount of napalm
certain plants are known as housebreakers because they can punch through anything, including concrete. seed moron residences with bamboo and they won't be able to do shid about it.
Ricin, it’s a bit troublesome to extract but very doable. It would turn a pellet gun wound fatal.
Also antiserum exists
I’ve never had need or want for it but thanks to my job can pretty much make spores or poison if I wanted to
You'd think if plants were easily weaponized, they would have been already in Mesoamerica: The region didn't have much metal weapons or armor, and even used things like feathers in armor, and had cactus, agave, etc as potential points, yet they didn't really use those for weapons, just spines for sewing or piercing for bloodletting.
shows it can be effective as points though
also I'm assuming we're disregarding the weaponization of wood for weapons and textiles or wood or reeds/bamboo for armor/clothing, which were obviously widespread things across the globe
Gorse
This fucking spiky yellow shit. Once its roots are in its almost impossible to get rid of and spreads really quickly.
In ireland where I live, farmers regularly burn this shit and it still comes back and spreads further.
Opium poppy did a number on the chinks. Probably best weaponized large scale plant use.