Buttercup flower by Lucy Liu

    In this week I read an article about 10 weird and truly terrifying plants in our world. One of them extremely interested me is the buttercup.

   In the article it said that buttercup is a kind of flower that is really danger to not only human but animals. To me, this plants is like the wild flowers and we can see them anywhere in the spring. I never thought about to connect this small, bright, yellow and cute plants to anything that would damage people. Sometimes people even use buttercup as slang to describe young girls who are cute and sweet. However, what I learned from this source is that, buttercups have virulence. It can causes poisoning by just teaching of the plants, and also, if people or animals eat this kind of plant by accident, it would have serious damage of the bodies. The gastrointestinal toxicity may result in a painful death resulting from organ and nervous systems. I think the buttercups are more danger than other toxic plants because we can get hurt by both touching them and tasting them, also at the same time, this is kind of wild flowers that often appears in gardens and even lawns beside the road, so they have a wide distribution all around the world and really hard to distinguish with other kinds of wild flowers. The children who play outside would easily see the buttercups and their colorful appearance might give the kids the rise to touch them, and if they do so, it will cause serious problems.

     In conclusion, the thing that looks beautiful outside is not always as good inside them. We should not touch or taste any wild plants and fruits before we know what they are, the inconspicuous plants like buttercups might be the big killer of human.

Source:http://listverse.com/2013/04/08/10-weird-and-truly-terrifying-plants/