It's a Wonderful World. 神秘果 Miracle Fruit (Synsepalum Dulcificum)Although not sweet itself, if consumed fresh and allowed to coat your mouth, this miraculous fruit alters your tastebuds so that everything you eat tastes sweet with effect lasting one to two hours.
The beauty of it is that it only removes the acidic sourness (such as lemon) from what you are eating. The natural aroma and taste remains. It has been used to sweeten bitter medicines. You should eat the berries immediately on picking. If they are stored in the refrigerator for a day or so, they often lose their effectiveness in changing the tastebuds. 神秘果尝后能暂时改变人的味觉系统,即使再吃酸味水果亦呈甜味。
舞草 Telegraph Plant (Desmodium Gyrans) The plant is also known as the Dancing Plant or the Curiosity Plant. Charles Darwin once wrote in his book,"The little leaflets never go to sleep, and this seems to me very odd… They are at their games of play as late as 11 o’clock at night and probably later. " 这是一枝普普通通的小草。 露美玉 Living Stone (Lithops turbiniformis) 植物体形如石头,开出花来好像从石缝里钻出来。
Top 10 Most Dangerous Plants in the World. 1. Most likely to eat a rat Giant Pitcher Plant: Nepenthes attenboroughii Discovered more than 5000 feet above sea level on Mount Victoria in the Philippines, the giant, carnivorous pitcher plant secretes a nectar-like substance to lure unsuspecting prey into a pool of enzymes and acid.
A series of sticky, downward ribs makes it nearly impossible for trapped prey to escape. The plant's 30-centimeter diameter is large enough to trap unlucky rodents, but insects are its most common meal. 2. Castor Bean Plant: Ricinus communis Castor-bean plants can be purchased at just about any garden center, despite containing the deadly poison ricin. 3. Western Water Hemlock: Cicuta douglasii Deemed the most "violently toxic plant that grows in North America" by the USDA, the water hemlock contains the toxin cicutoxin, which wreaks havoc on the central nervous system, causing grand mal seizures--which include loss of consciousness and violent muscle contractions--and eventually death, if ingested. 4. 5. 10 Creepy Plants That Shouldn't Exist. We spend a lot of time here at Cracked pointing out horrors of nature that slither on the land and lurch through the sea.
But staying under the radar in nature's landscape of nightmares is the twisted carnival of things that grow out of the ground. Like ... Bleeding Tooth Fungus The bleeding tooth fungus looks kind of like a wad of chewing gum that leaks blood like a rejected prop from The Shining. They're also called the strawberries and cream, the red-juice tooth, and the devil's tooth. Oh, and they are listed as "inedible," which implies that someone attempted to eat one at some point. Chinese Black Batflowers There's a good reason that Batman uses bat imagery to strike terror into the hearts of Gotham's criminals, rather than, say, some kind of shrew. It is kept as an ornamental plant by gardeners who prefer to cultivate nightmares, and have the balls to live in the presence of a plant that looks like it crawled out of a Bosch painting and wants to plant its young in their head.