Stinging Nightweed

Everything purple is not safe. And everything red is not dangerous - just most things.

Ever a danger to the blossoming botanist, gardener or tracker, the Stinging Nightweed is a pesky resident to the Caasi Bushland. While deadly poisonous and incredibly invasive to the areas it calls its home, careful management can result in a bush that works as both aphid deterrant and dye product for a rich pink stain.

Basic Information

Biological Traits

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Ecology and Habitats

The nightweed thrives on the granite outcrops of the region, particularly the sodium feldspar of the gray silicate minerals within the granite of the region. The nightweed's poison is an aluminium carbonate that forms in an alkaline suspension within the leaves, forming a aluminium hydroxide and carbon dioxide when exposed to the acidic insides of a victim.

Additional Information

Geographic Origin and Distribution

Loving rocky outrcrops, this bush is a sun facing plant, and as such, an enterprising tracker could use the facing of the nightweed to determine the path of Morticia through the day. It stays low to the curve of the rocks it lives around, with thick bulbs clustered around the core of itself that it uses to store excess nutrients for the dry seasons.

Average Height

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Average Weight

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Average Length

10 to 15 m, through small 10cm clusters dividied by long metre to 3m runners.

Body Tint, Colouring and Marking

Red leaves with a soft blue bioluminescence around the edges of the leaves. When the leaves fall off they age to a deep purple.

Geographic Distribution

• Caasi Bushland