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Image credits: TerribleMensch Someone who’s scared of hallways probably has deeper and darker underlying fears than drab or dull interior decorations. For example, they might have bathophobia.As ...
Native to Australia, the trees, which are commonly referred to as red gum or bloodwood trees (for obvious reasons), exhibit a shockingly human characteristic: they "bleed" when they're cut into ...
Image credits: fasc1nate The BBC notes that even some objectively ordinary things (e.g., dolls, clowns, mannequins) can have creepy connotations. According to Dr. Coltan Scrivner, a behavioral ...
This species blooms in late spring or early summer. The flowers are purple or magenta, rarely rose-pink, about 5 cm (2.0 in) wide. [10] The fruits are yellowish, tubercular like the stems, [10] and shaped something like the frustum of a cone, with a hollow at the wide end where the flower fell off; they are often mistaken for flowers. The plant ...
A man-eating plant is a fictional form of carnivorous plant large enough to kill and consume a human or other large animal. The notion of man-eating plants came about in the late 19th century, as the existence of real-life carnivorous and moving plants, described by Charles Darwin in Insectivorous Plants (1875), and The Power of Movement in Plants (1880), largely came as a shock to the general ...
The fragrant, orchid-like flowers are usually 10 to 15 centimetres (3.9 to 5.9 in) across, and bloom from early November to the end of March. Although now cultivated in many areas, it originated in Hong Kong in 1880 and apparently all of the cultivated trees derive from one cultivated at the Hong Kong Botanical Gardens and widely planted in ...
Armadillos burrow in forest areas, but their damage usually consists of dozens of shallow holes a few inches deep in your yard or garden. You also may see three-toed tracks with claw marks.
Lithospermum erythrorhizon, with flowers. Lithospermum erythrorhizon, commonly called purple gromwell, red stoneroot, red gromwell, red-root gromwell and redroot lithospermum, is a plant species in the family Boraginaceae. [1] It is called zǐcǎo (紫草) in Chinese, jichi (지치) in Korean, and murasaki (ムラサキ; 茈) in Japanese. [1]