In any good dinosaur game you cannot have just the dinosaurs being deadly can you. Well I can’t!

I did pick up the Mantic Alien Jungle kickstarter plants some time ago, but these will take some time to paint, and I am running out of time.

I still have lots of “magic mushrooms” left over from my “Mouse Metropolis” now doing the rounds of US games days thanks to fellow blogger Mark Morin

I had six hex bases left over awaiting the arrival of the next batch and enough mushrooms to fill them up, so these would do on a temporary basis. Like any good researcher I headed back to the primary sources in this case Jurassic Park!

In “Jurassic Park,” two poisonous plants are Dutchman’s Pipe and West Indian Lilac, both toxic if eaten. The book also mentions Crichton’s serenna veriformans, known for its beauty. Additionally, a Triceratops becomes ill from West Indian Lilac.

Serenna veriformans is a fictional plant from the first novel and movie. It has toxic spores, which contain beta-carboline alkaloid, a substance that irritates the skin and can be deadly if ingested, being 50 times more poisonous than Oleander.

The presence of this dangerous plant by the pool shows that the park’s creators didn’t conduct enough research enough.

I am thinking of treating these like the exciting things in 40k, such as Catachan’s dangerous plants like Brain Leaf, Barbed Venomgorse, Canak Floater, Catachan Mantrap, Spitting Cactus, and Sporetrees.

More terrain like spitting lava pools later.