Comments on: 6 Cool Plants I Would Find a Way to Kill

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:25:27 +0000

That resurrection plant video was strange…and I don’t mean the plant.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:53:59 +0000

I have a green plant with little pink flowers that’s been alive for about 2 years. I was so proud of my new gardening prowess until someone saw it and told me it’s called John Creech and is considered to be a hearty perrenial ground cover. So basically i was proud of keeping the botanical difficulty equivalent of poison ivy alive.

By: rab

rab — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:29:00 +0000

The corpse flower is actually a parasite, and that’s why it doesn’t have leaves or a true stem/peduncle.

By: Daria

Daria — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:02:46 +0000

The sensitive plant grows wild over here. We call it morivivÃ (I died, I came back to life).

By: Sercat

Sercat — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:59:22 +0000

I am also from Iowa Stacy and even though I grew up farming, I kill any type of plant that comes into my care including cacti, philodendrons, ferns and hosta plants. The sad thing is by some miracle I am able to keep some plant alive, my cats decide to eat and it dies anyways.

By: Ed Smith, Palm Springs, CA

Ed Smith, Palm Springs, CA — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:13:26 +0000

A petition must be started immediately to pass a law to prevent you from owning any more plants(except the resurrection plant).

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:07:00 +0000

The Money Plant is actually called a Judas Penny where I’m from (Michigan). I’ve never heard it called anything else. I’ve got a bunch in my back yard.

By: briana

briana — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:48:00 +0000

I think there is a corpse lily in the New York Botanical Gardens as well. I’ve heard about this flower for YEARS!!! I’m sure that there are other varieties of this plant that are in the same family of plant that don’t smell as badly, but they also aren’t as large AT ALL!! This plant is pollinated by flies which is why it smells like decaying meat or rotting flesh. I believe I first heard about this in either 3-2-1 Contact or National Geographic Kids Magazines. I know I’m a geek. They were my favorite magazines when I was younger (well over 10 years ago). Anyway everyone have a great NEW YEAR!!!

By: Laurel

Laurel — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:51:00 +0000

There’s a corpse flower at the Berkeley Botanical Gardens.

it smells positively awful.

By: kristin

kristin — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:24:00 +0000

Wow. I thought it was just me! I’ve killed aloe. More than once.