Gympie Gympie

[High Scale]

I saw this Gympie Gympie: Once stung, never forgotten - Australian Geographic

 

Sounds nasty.

[silky fox]

A pack-horse got stung...went mad and died within 2 hours!!!!! VERY NASTY!!!

[High Scale]

I thought the guy shooting himself after using the leaves for 'toilet purposes' was the main one.

[Andy Collins]

What a plant. I was expecting it to be a venomous insect or spider, not a tree!!

[penfold]

Makes giant hogweed look like a minor nettle sting.:scared1:

[Gray git]

Not something I'd like the wife to slip into my salad!

Glad we don't find stuff like this in UK back gardens!

[IanW]

oz is just full of nasty stuff, awesome country, really bloody anti social nature lol

[nepia]

If it's the same plant as was pointed out when I spent my honeymoon in Cairns the rash comes back every time you get the skin wet for up to 6 months after the sting so our guide said.

[Ty Korrigan]

BLERK!

What a horror, worse than poison ivy!

In 2009 I cycled across Oz and bush camped when not at road stations or city hostels.

I never strayed far from my tent at night (snakes come out to play then)

I always shook my shoes out before putting them on.

When taking down my tent I would gently pull away my ground sheet in case of serpents.

Nothing, not a scratch, just a few mozzy bites.

I get back to France in the September and within days got bitten by a viper in the garden spending 2 days and a night in hospital....

Ty