Weird question but does anyone know what this is?.....

[Barrel of Fun]

I would put it as Arum maculatum. The A. italicum has silver veined leaves.

Lovely woodland plant, fairly exotic leaves followed the berries which, as mentioned, are very poisonous.

The Wiki page has a rather unusual link to 'child nudity'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arum_maculatum

 

[brakespear]

I still get loads of pleasure out of passing all those things onto my own kids now and watching them struggle forever to try to get a sound out of a blade of grass stretched between their thumbs

What's missing for them though is that we did all those things ourselves, without an adult in sight until it was to time to go home for your tea. Kids today may have more 'things' but with less freedom to run wild I sometimes feel sad for them.

 

[Boys 9d]

We always called Bindweed, or convolvulus to give it it's latin name, 'granny pop out the bed'. That's because we'd pick the flowers and squeeze them at the base to make them jump out of their 'bed'.

We called the unopened flower torpedoes as that is the how they looked to us when we "popped' them. On the other hand the open flowers were regarded as parachutes because of the way they floated to the ground.

 

[Indurain's Lungs]

The Wiki page has a rather unusual link to 'child nudity'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arum_maculatum

Discovered that eventually.

Very fortunate that the little one didn't get it into her mouth!

 

[dingodan]

Don't know it's name but having been raised in the countryside was always told not to touch it.

You want to get that checked out mate.

My penis looks nothing like that.

 

[KingKev]

We called the unopened flower torpedoes as that is the how they looked to us when we "popped' them. On the other hand the open flowers were regarded as parachutes because of the way they floated to the ground.

I still call them Granny Pops.

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Looks like my mates knob after he went bareback in Hong Kong.