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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BookTenTiger" data-source="post: 8619835" data-attributes="member: 6685541">I was walking in the San Francisco Botanical Gardens today and came upon a Mexican Hand Tree. It was blooming, and the flower (with pistil and stamen) looks like this:[ATTACH=full]156282[/ATTACH](Photo Credit: me)It was windy today, and the pistil and stamens were dropping off and littering the ground. I took one home:[ATTACH=full]156283[/ATTACH](Photo Credit: me)If the botanists who named this tree were D&D players, they definitely would have called it a Crawling Claw tree! How cool would this be in a D&D campaign, trees that drop little claws that swarm and attack, maybe dragging back corpses to better fertilize the tree?...A while back, I saw one of these growing near my classroom:[ATTACH=full]156285[/ATTACH](Photo Credit: wikimedia)It's called a Latticed Stinkhorn or Red Cage. It's a very cool fungus. It starts as a white egg-like thing, then erupts into this cage structure:[ATTACH=full]156287[/ATTACH](Photo Credit: bayareamushrooms.org)Imagine huge versions of these! They could explode upwards, trapping a character. Or myconids could use them as cages. Or what if they go in reverse, when something steps into the cage it crushes them back down and turns into a hard egg?What other plants, fungi, or plant-like things make for obvious D&D encounters?</blockquote>