Chopsticks and toothpicks - RE: RP Trees

Actually, I think that most "wooden" chopsticks and toothpics are made from
bamboo, a type of grass. Bamboo is very rapid in growth, there are species
that have been measured to grow at an inch an hour as a shoot. Most bamboo
reaches maturity in just a few years.

Dragging this back to "Vicious Sci-Fi Plants" perhaps a nasty type of
carnivorous bamboo that is insidious. If a unit stays more than two
turns inside a CB grove, it sends out tiny hair-like shoots covered in
neuro-toxin.  If they contact exposed flesh, the victim is paralyzed.
The bamboo then grows a "feeder shoot" that is hollow which it injects into
the victim then releases enzymes to turn the victim into fertilizer goo which
then soaks into the ground and into the roots.

--Binhan

> -----Original Message-----

> From: "B Lin" <lin@rxkinetix.com>

> Dragging this back to "Vicious Sci-Fi Plants" perhaps a nasty type of
The
> bamboo then grows a "feeder shoot" that is hollow which it injects into

You scare me.  But I like the idea. :-)

3B^2