Plant Attack!
Description
These plants put up a fight!
Plants can't scream or run away from danger, but they do have some tricks up their stems. The corpse flower smells like, you guessed it, rotting wounds, and the touch-me-not balsam explodes!
Explore 15 plants that can stab, poison, drown or use other unique and sometimes bizarre ways to defend themselves from predators, including you!
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Persons
Erin Silver is an award-winning children's author. Her books include Rush Hour: Navigating Our Global Traffic Jam (Blueberry Award winner), Sitting Shiva (OLA Best Bets, Vine Award finalist, TD Canadian Children's Literature Award finalist), All Consuming: Shop Smarter for the Planet (Hackmatack Award nominee), In It to Win It: Sports and the Climate Crisis (Green Earth Book Award winner) and Good Food, Bad Waste: Let's Eat for the Planet (2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books finalist). She is also the author of two nonfiction picture books for younger readers, Mighty Scared and Plant Attack! (Silver Birch Express Honor Book). Erin is a sought-after speaker at schools, libraries and conferences. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction and a postgraduate journalism degree. Erin lives in Toronto.