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So this is something I learnt in 2nd year of university...
I was taking a biology course with an amazingly cool professor that talked to us about this special plant called "Mother of Thousands".
Now, vaguely intertwined into our reproduction unit, the mother of thousands gives birth to new plants not by seeds or spores of pollen but rather the ends of the leaves spawn thousands of tiny replica plants complete with tiny roots, leaves, the works.
Naturally, we were all enthralled... and he ended up bringing in all the tiny plants that his personal one spawned and handed them out at a lecture. I was lucky enough to get one and promptly planted it.
Months later it was a nice looking mature plant with the buds of these tiny plants of its own. They had started to fall off and pepper my desk with little green confetti.
One day, I was sitting down to a salad, looking at the abundance of greenery around me... and the thought occurred to me... it would really be a cool aesthetic touch to a salad to have tiny plants in it, right?
So I pop one into my mouth... "Oooo... crunchy"
I pop another one into my mouth... "Oooooo.... refreshing"
It was fuckin delicious!!! One of the best tasting plants I've eaten to date.
So I harvest about half the damn plant... cover it in zesty italian and scarf it down, lovin every bite.
It's only about 5 minutes after I finish the bowl of salad that it occurs to me... "You know... it's a tropical plant... how do I know it's edible?"
My heart starts palpating, and I rush to the worlds source for quick info... wikipedia
If you follow the link, you might notice (as I did) that this is in the first paragraph:
All parts of the plant are poisonous, which can even be fatal if ingested by infants or small pets.
Ahahaha... FUCKKKK
Don't know what to do... I ate a fuckload of this plant... so I ring up poison control and they look up the toxicity of the plant.
A couple of nerve-wracking minutes later and I find out that I didn't ingest enough to warrant immediate action, and the toxic properties of the plant were slow coming, so there's plenty of time to react if anything happens.
I skull 4-5 glasses of water and lie down, since the poison affects the heart, so resting will delay the effects. I had the phone by my side the whole time and just tried to relax.
In about 30 minutes, my heart gave a flutter that had me gasping and grabbing for the phone, but it was short lived and I didn't end up dialing 911. I had one more, that almost made me dial, but it died down pretty quick too. After that I was fine, with not apparent side effects, other than the scarring memory.
The point is... don't eat houseplants... no matter how cool they look or good they taste...
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LOL
tbh i would NEVER in a million years even think about eating a houseplant. unless i was sure it was edible anyways
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holy shit I would have induced vomiting immediately before calling poison control
that must have been really scary, glad to hear you're ok
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Holy shit dude, hahaha. That's a story for the future  , glad you made it out alright
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wow lol I can't believe you just started scarfing it down without a second thought. maybe i'm particularly paranoid about eating random plants (when I was in peru recently, my friends started eating every berry they came across in the amazon but I refused).
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On November 10 2010 16:48 seRapH wrote:
LOL
tbh i would NEVER in a million years even think about eating a houseplant. unless i was sure it was edible anyways
You know what's even better... under the wikipedia article it says that its a type of 'succulent' plant... which has some specific scientific meaning, but I tell you... it was damn succulent. Almost worth it...
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glad you're okay. Nature is indeed a cruel mistress. Take bears, for example, so cute, so deadly... it's just not fair, is it?
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Hey man, look on the bright side. You're one of few people who'd actually know what that plant tastes like. xD
Would have been hella scary to go through. But you did, and now you've got a pretty cool story to tell. =)
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United States4796 Posts
Damn, bro...
That's quite a scary story.
I'm glad you're okay. Don't die on us, meeple. 
In other news.. does that plant reproduce like wildfire?
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On November 10 2010 17:08 DivinO wrote:Damn, bro... That's quite a scary story. I'm glad you're okay. Don't die on us, meeple. In other news.. does that plant reproduce like wildfire?
Heh... thanks!
And yes the plant reproduces pretty quick. In it's natural habitat it needs to compete with tons of other shit, but if you eliminate those, you'll have tons of the things before long.
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ugh i cant imagine eating any plant that i didnt buy from a store. haha took guts for you to eat it
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cool story man. Glad your ok. Reminded me a bit about Into the wild. Must have been a seriously FFUUUUU moment when u found out its poisonous ><
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I would never consider eating any of my house plants. Mine doesn't look very appetizing.
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You're a damn beast, think about it.. that's one of the manliest things you've done in your lifetime.. it's like that live-octopus that get's eaten by koreans for the sake of manliest shit.
good thing nothing much happened to you..
I wanna ask mother nature, why are the most delicious stuff has to be either bad for the health or poisonous? 
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This is one blog post that's actually damn interesting.
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omg. what a beast. surviving that. i would have probably died from shock lol
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Haha, this sounds like something i would do. Taste something, like it and eat it without considering if it is edible or not ^^
Eat shit all the time when i am out picking mushrooms (not mushrooms tho, strangely enough).
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Korea (South)1897 Posts
ROFL
You completely crack me up,
Who the hell eats their plants on a whim?
DAMN and then you realize it could be bad,
wow, at least you enjoy the taste of it
LOL ROFL
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haha, this is like one of those 'one man one jar' moments, you know, where it seems like a good idea at the time, and then half way through you think "...wait a minute..."
glad your ok though ^^
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I had the phone by my side the whole time and just tried to relax.
Don't know how you managed that, I'd be freaking out. At least you got a good story (and a good meal) out of it =)
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So...what'd it taste like?
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lol awesome story, man this is why I love blogs, makes my work day that much easier to deal with
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Austin10831 Posts
On November 10 2010 16:52 meeple wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2010 16:48 seRapH wrote:
LOL
tbh i would NEVER in a million years even think about eating a houseplant. unless i was sure it was edible anyways You know what's even better... under the wikipedia article it says that its a type of 'succulent' plant... which has some specific scientific meaning, but I tell you... it was damn succulent. Almost worth it...
hahaha
FYI: A succulent plant is a plant that can survive in dry, arid or salty conditions by storing excess water in its tissue, like a cactus
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^^ you should tell your professor.
"BTW sir, your plant is absolutely delicious"
"WTF you do know that it's poisonous"
/you shrug it off like a badass
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Korea (South)1897 Posts
Bryophyllum daigremontianum also called Devil's Backbone
LOL
THIS CRACKS ME UP that you did this LOL.
This is the first thread I've ever posted twice in just because it cracked me up so much LOL.
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On November 11 2010 00:20 ilovezil wrote:
So...what'd it taste like?
Ah I guess I didn't give a good description of the actual taste. But the really lovely thing about it was the texture. Every tiny plant was like a little crunchy burst of water. It was just slightly sweet, definitely not bitter in any way... and the aftertaste reminded me slightly of celery, but not exactly. It's hard to explain but thats about the best I can put it...
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Well, that's more or less a once in a lifetime opportunity, so...
I guess you jipped the grim reaper good this time.
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