Electric climber
When one of my grandsons, who were also my trekking companions, encountered this lethal looking Greenbriar, what struck him as remarkable was not the thorns, which are truly formidable and are sharp enough to draw blood from either punctures or scratches... often both. Rather, the budding naturalist noticed that the plant seemed to be covered with metal "wires" and was quite unlike any greenery he'd ever seen, even, outside of video games, imagined. Simple explanation, I told him. The wires are actually hold-fasts that enabled the briar, which was, after all, a vine, to climb up unwitting hosts and move towards the light.
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