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In fiction. Audrey Jr.: a man-eating plant in the 1960 film The Little Shop of Horrors. Audrey II: a singing, fast-talking alien plant with a taste for human blood in the stage show Little Shop of Horrors and the 1986 film of the same name. Bat-thorn: a plant, similar to wolfsbane, offering protection against vampires in Mark of the Vampire.
Monkey D. Luffy ( / ˈluːfi / LOO-fee) ( Japanese: モンキー・D・ルフィ, Hepburn: Monkī Dī Rufi, [ɾɯꜜɸiː]), also known as " Straw Hat " Luffy, [n 2] is a fictional character and the protagonist in the Japanese manga series One Piece created by Eiichiro Oda. Luffy made his debut as a young boy who acquires the properties of ...
Harpagophytum ( / ˌhɑːrpəˈɡɒfɪtəm / HAR-pə-GOF-it-əm ), also called grapple plant, wood spider, and most commonly devil's claw, is a genus of plants in the sesame family, native to southern Africa. Plants of the genus owe their common name "devil's claw" to the peculiar appearance of their hooked fruit.
The disease is contracted by touch and slowly turns the skin (small patches in children and the entire body in adults) of the victim to into a gray, stone-like form. It is said that the disease also drives its adult victims insane. Hanahaki disease, or hanahaki byou. Hanahaki Otome (花吐き乙女) by Matsuda Naoko.
Leaves, stems, and green unripe fruit of the tomato plant also contain small amounts of the poisonous alkaloid tomatine, [32] although levels are generally too small to be dangerous. [32] [33] Ripe tomatoes do not contain any detectable tomatine. [32] Tomato plants can be toxic to dogs if they eat large amounts of the fruit or chew the plant ...
Isonade. A giant shark-like sea monster with a barb-covered tail, sighted off the coast of Western Japan. Issie. A lake creature similar to the Loch Ness Monster, found in Lake Ikeda on Kyūshū. Itsumade. An eerie fire-breathing reptilian bird monster with an almost human face, named for its cry.
The devil completed the manuscript and the monk added the devil's picture out of gratitude for his aid. [10] Notable supposed deals with the devil were struck between the 15th and 18th centuries. The motif lives on among musicians until the 20th century: Johann Georg Faust (1466/80–1541), whose life was the origin of the Faust legend. [11]
Jatropha fruit, Jatropha curcas (Euphorbiaceae) Laurel, Prunus laurocerasus (Rosaceae) Lily of the valley, Convallaria majalis (Asparagaceae) Linden (also known as Lime or Basswood), Tilia spp. (Malvaceae) Manchineel, Hippomane mancinella (Euphorbiaceae) Mape tree, Inocarpus fagifer (Fabaceae) Masuri berry, Coriaria nepalensis (Coriariaceae)