For Daniel Emlyn-Jones, from Oxford, this was not a concern as he needed to add a touch of drama to his planting
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Rather than establishing orchids or a fiddle-leaf fig tree - named probably the hardest to sustain - the 49-year-old decided on the individual from the vex family
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Daniel got seeds from a company in Australia, it cost something like sixty Australian dollars, so it wasn't modest
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Aborigines supposedly used it to help treat arthritis. Daniel was not sure how true that is, or how that would work
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The plant is infamous for its complicated sting which may leave its victims suffering for weeks or even months
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Those bitten by the bush describe the pain as "the worst you can imagine"
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Subsequent to developing bananas in his front nursery, Daniel thought the gympie would "keep things fascinating"
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He kept the plant in a cage with a sign saying "Danger"
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Daniel said: 'Assuming you handle it, it's probably not a smart thought, but I’ve been slightly stung by it through the fabric bit on the back of my heavy-duty elbow-length gloves and that wasn’t awful
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Daniel Says, ‘I do keep the cage locked though, I keep the leaves far from the bars as though somebody came excessively close and brushed against it that'd be very unsafe.'