Deadly Plants

1

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

1

Digitalis

2

Wormwood

3

Hemlock

4

Laurel

2

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

1

Hemlock root

2

Foxglove plant

3

Castor bean plant

4

Wisteria flowers

3

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

1

Snapdragon trap

2

Venus flytrap

3

Butterfly net plant

4

Carnivorous vine

4

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

1

Utricularia

2

Nepenthes

3

Sarracenia

4

Drosera

5

Which carnivorous plant uses sticky tentacles to trap insects?

1

Tentacle Flora

2

Slime Grasp

3

Sundew

4

Greasy Grabber

6

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

1

Dodder

2

Vein Blight

3

Twisted Vine

4

Leaf Leech

7

What aquatic carnivorous plant uses suction traps to capture prey?

1

Bladderwort

2

Water Buttercup

3

Sundew Leaf

4

Snapping Seaweed

8

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

1

Magnesium

2

Phosphorus

3

Iron

4

Nitrogen

9

Which carnivorous plant uses underground corkscrew-shaped traps?

1

Cypripedium

2

Nepenthes

3

Genlisea

4

Drosera

10

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

1

Cycad

2

Rhododendron

3

Narcissus

4

Holly

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