Talk:Dendrocnide moroides

A fact from Dendrocnide moroides appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 August 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the sting of the rainforest shrub Dendrocnide moroides can cause severe and prolonged pain and has been reported to kill dogs, horses and humans?

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PLEASE DON'T MEDDLE WITH THIS PLANT

I beg of all the readers, please do not ever think of going close to this Gympie Gympie plant. It is one of the deadliest plants.^{[citation needed]} Some people who have been stung had to undergo such agonizing, excruciating, wicked burning sensations that a few have commited suicide^{[citation needed]} unable to bear the pain.^{[citation needed]} If you neglect my advice...^{[citation needed]} -59.95.26.179 (talk) 16:05, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

^{[citation needed]} :P Testem (talk) 08:25, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Citation 5

Currently the link is dead. Just thought people would like to know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.148.95.56 (talk) 07:24, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm calling bullshit.

Lethal to humans, yet there's no report of lethal toxicity anywhere and no one has ever died from it. Kills horses, yet there's only a story from one person about a pack horse that allegedly committed suicide, from the same guy who claimed a human committed suicide after using it as toilet paper. Idk about you, but I find it impossible to believe a fellow Australian in the armed forces would be deployed 1. in a protected rainforest for training, 2. be that stupid to not know that hairy leaves = bad anywhere in my country, and 3. still rub it on their pooper. I'm sorry, but this sounds like sheer nonsense, and there are zero sources on any of this stuff. But it gets even worse when you do investigate the few sources that exist, or worse, follow that rabbit hole to where these claims lead.

Stay with me now, it's about to get blurry. The whole dead horse thing is based on a article citing a guy who cited a report citing a guy citing a guy talking about another guys pack horse. That's pretty daft, right? It gets worse. The 'officer' suicide (besides being unaccounted for anywhere in the annals of military history given how amazing such a story would be you'd think someone somewhere would know this officer) story is based on a source which is based on the writing of someone who knew someone who heard of someone who was in a hospital with a sting, who then knew someone who knew someone who worked with an officer who used it as toilet paper. And somehow magically was deployed for jungle training in a tropical rainforest. I'm sorry, I like a cool story bro story as much as the next guy, but this isn't encyclopedic. These flights of fancy are urban legends that have grown, worse still this article is now used as 'proof' of all these claims now. This is precisely why we're not an acceptable source for citation.

I'm just going to remove that entire sentence unless someone can present some actual evidence that any of this is anything but a tall tale. If you can find the name of the officer who shot himself and any evidence that it was due to a sting from this plant, or the same for the mysterious pack horse that flung itself from a cliff (ironic given there aren't many cliffs if any in the rainforest in question) then we may as well look at re-adding it, but until there's some scrap of evidence besides a chain of cool story bro stories it's bunkum. <!//– ☠ ʇdɯ0ɹd ɥsɐq ☠ // user // talk // twitter //–> 16:48, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've ditched the overtly bollocks part. The Australian Geographic article itself is the source for the remaining passage about Ernie Rider, it's questionable as fuck but rather than removing it entirely I've just added Ernie's name and the year of his alleged stinging to the passage to give it a little more detail. Australian Geographic isn't a very notable publication, it's not like National Geographic, and the article in question is just so corny. But I don't want to butcher this article down to a stub so I'll leave that as is, perhaps someone can find some better material to insert that's actually based on science not some amateur 'adventure' writer prattling urban myths. <!//– ☠ ʇdɯ0ɹd ɥsɐq ☠ // user // talk // twitter //–> 16:48, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

totally agree Mmdx0556 (talk) 15:20, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Updating this article

Hello fellow editors. I believe this article as it exists now has many failings, such as dubious references, lack of appropriate sections as recommended by WP:PLANTS, and poorly-written content, among other problems. I am currently working on a completely revised and expanded version which will address all of these issues. If you have any suggestions please comment. — Junglenut | talk 11:07, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

nothing about the kangaroo that eats it? evolutary arms race?

Surely, someone knows how it came to be this way. 91.185.10.255 (talk) 16:57, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The "kangaroo" is a pademelon - its mentioned in the Ecology section. Junglenut |Talk 21:43, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Moonlighter

In North Queensland where this grows in the rainforest, the local name is "moonlighter". 202.83.95.14 (talk) 23:59, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]