Deadly Plants

1

Socrates was sentenced to death by the forced ingestion of what type of deadly plant?

1

Belladonna

2

Hemlock

3

Mandrake

4

Wormwood

2

Which plant produces ricin, one of the deadliest known poisons?

1

Poison ivy vine

2

Castor bean plant

3

Belladonna berries

4

Wisteria flowers

3

What carnivorous plant snaps shut on insects when trigger hairs are touched?

1

Butterwort clamps

2

Pitcher plant

3

Venus flytrap

4

Sundew snapper

4

Which tropical carnivorous plant traps prey in fluid-filled “pitchers”?

1

Sarracenia

2

Nepenthes

3

Dionaea muscipula

4

Utricularia

5

Which carnivorous plant uses sticky tentacles to trap insects?

1

Slime Grasp

2

Juggernaut Bloom

3

Sundew

4

Greasy Grabber

6

Which rootless parasitic plant drains nutrients from host plants and can devastate crops?

1

Dodder

2

Twisted Vine

3

Ghost Fern

4

Leaf Leech

7

What aquatic carnivorous plant uses suction traps to capture prey?

1

Cobra Lily

2

Nematode Net

3

Trapdoor Lily

4

Bladderwort

8

What is the primary nutrient carnivorous plants seek from their prey?

1

Nitrogen

2

Phosphorus

3

Iron

4

Sulfur

9

Which carnivorous plant uses underground corkscrew-shaped traps?

1

Drosera

2

Utricularia

3

Pinguicula

4

Genlisea

10

What plant contains the toxin grayanotoxin, which can cause “mad honey” poisoning?

1

Azalea

2

Cycad

3

Rhododendron

4

Narcissus

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