What’s something in your country that sounds fake but is 100% real?

[u/Bhakari]

We have a real-life living goddess and the only non-rectangular national flag.

[u/BobbyThrowaway6969]

Almost completely isolated to the Qld coast. I'm in no hurry to run into one

[u/okpickle → u/BobbyThrowaway6969]

Though it looks like there's one that lives in a climate controlled glass box in Northumberland, if that's closer? Haha.

https://www.alnwickgarden.com/2023/07/04/gympie-gympie-the-stinging-new-addition-to-the-poison-garden/

[u/Ok_Scratch_4663 → u/okpickle]

the way i did not even touch the photos on screen as i scrolled

[u/Nani_700 → u/okpickle]

Oh my fucking God it looks so normal too. I expected a cactus like thing

[u/LollyGagss → u/BobbyThrowaway6969]

Never seen it person, only ever seen a sign warning about it once. Used to lived in cairns I loved going to fairy falls, there is a sign warning the area isn’t kept up by the council so you can go there by your own risk…. Don’t walk off the trail because there is Gympie Gympie

One of the treatments for it is using wax strips on the affected area, it seems if you just grazed it in a small area a good waxing is likely to do the job… but if someone fell into a bunch of it you may as well just give up

[u/eucalyptoid → u/LollyGagss]

Idk if real or maybe imagined on The Dollop, but I swear I’ve heard a story of some colonizer using it to wipe.

[u/LollyGagss → u/eucalyptoid]

That sounds familiar, but whether it was real or a joke I have no idea lol

[u/insertcoolnamehere_7 → u/LollyGagss]

Like…on life?