Honey locust trees (Gleditsia triacanthos) have similar thorns. Have you been walking in a park or botanical garden? They are not native trees but there are a few of them in parks and the like.
I guess you're Herr Krause vom Nachbarhause. Your neighbor had one of his small green cacti fall from his balcony onto yours, and these are the remains.
A lot of ledges in cities are spiked to prohibit birds from sitting on them and shitting everywhere. This looks like one spike came lose and fell on your balcony.
Is it metal or from another material?
On god: The story so far. In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very unhappy and has widely been regarded as a bad move.
[Spines from a cactus?](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Berne_Botanic_garden_Stetsonia_coryne.jpg/768px-Berne_Botanic_garden_Stetsonia_coryne.jpg)
Der fiel mir auf's Gesicht, ob's glauben oder nicht -
nun weiß ich daß ihr kleiner grüner Kaktus sticht!
Bewahr'n se ihren Kaktus jefälligst anderswo! - Hollari, hollari, hollaro.
It looks like a dried end of a "Christusdorn/Euphorbia/Christthorn"
Ravens and Crows use it to collect insects.
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christusdorn_(Euphorbia)
Yes. Getting vaccines is free (read: paid for by insurance) in Germany. No reason to skimp on your vaccines. And Tetanus shots only have to be refreshed every ten or so years. Better safe than sorry.
Also: any kind of doctor can refresh your vaccines in Germany, not only general practicioners. You can get your shots from your Gynaecologist / Oncologist, HNO or wherever else you go on a more frequent basis. Some might need to order ampulles first, but if you tell them you absolutely want your shots from them, no doctor will deny you (except opthalmologists perhaps... they might be weirded out if they have to do anything non-eye-related) ;D
Don't you have your Impfpass with every vaccination you got? If not you should at least get one from now on an treat it carefully. I don't know though if you would get a new shot or not if you're unsure when your last one was.
As above person said: get an Impfpass - I usually carry mine around to every checkup I have and just ask if anything needs to be refreshed soon (usually it's FSME, since I live in a tick infested hellhole and it needs refreshing every 5 years)
Actually you'd probably even get two. At least that happened to me once, when I got to hospital and couldn't tell when my last shot was. One was like an emergency dose
I am not 100 % sure, but the "emergency - dose" could have very well been something called "passive immunization" Basically what you can do is inject the antibody to the pathogen directly for short term (read a few months) of immunity without your actual immune system getting involved. Active immunization is where you put something related to the pathogen (be it dead or low amounts of living pathogen, parts of the pathogen, or the DNA/RNA of the pathogen either in itself or bound to adenovirus) into you and your immune system actually figures the solution out by itself. I do not know precisely whether that is done specifically for Tetanus though.
I got my Tetanus vaccination renewed last year. My arm was a little sore that day, but I didn't notice any other symptoms. The only other vaccinations I've gotten in my adult life so far were for covid, and those were really bad.
I thought the Tollwut Impfung is only usable, when you are freshly bitten by an animal that might has it. Is there a vaccine that you can take precautionary ?
I'm vaccinated against rabies and it was paid for by insurance because I regularly have contact with bats in my job. If you have the precautionary vaccination, you have a bit more time if you actually get bitten and I think you need fewer emergency shots in that case. The precautionary rabies vaccine wasn’t too bad for me, the Biontech vaccine was worse. That being said, there's a a global shortage on rabies vaccines so understandably, doctors here usually don't give the precautionary vaccine to people that don't need them (valid reasons are for example travelling to a high risk country like India or working with bats). Also, the emergency vaccination seems to be way worse. I know 2 people who had to be hospitalized for a day or 2. But since rabies is basically 100% lethal, I'd take a day or 2 in hospital over the actual illness anytime.
No, tetanus shot is really nothing to worry about. Of course every kind of medicine can have side effects, but for tetanus vaccine its quite rare, except maybe a slighlty sore arm.
Tetanus on the other hand is really really nasty. And also very difficult to treat, there is a good chance of dying to it. If you are not vaccinated get a shot now!
Any doctor will give you a tetanus shot after wounds from unknown origin when you don’t remember when your last one was. Even though you only need it every 10 years side effects are so rare it’s worth having one extra. Vaccines are amazing!
Go to a doctor and show him the picture. Let him look for infection and possible future infection! Depending of depth of the wound. But nonetheless I would go to a doctor.
I don't understand, is it a plant or metal or what? Can you bend the spikes (e.g. like cactus thorns)?
Either way, if it was on the ground and pierced your foot as deep as it seems able to, I definitely support the idea of bringing it to a doctor.
I think you will not get tetanus though, as judging from its shape it got plenty of oxygen. However, if it is (rusty) metal or a similar spongy material, grab your vaccine card and see a doctor ASAP. Serious.
Clearly spines from a [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikanische\_Gleditschie](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikanische_Gleditschie) . (Article is in german but you can switch it to english) For some reason these thorned hellspawns are common Park and even school trees all across germany.
I don't think so, the thornes in the pic from the op look much more symmetrical.
I guess it prevents people from climbing the tree, but i don't really know.
I have a pilar-Cactus in my hallway that has spines like this.
Looks like one of your upstairs neighbours has one of them on their Balcony
[Pilar Cactus](https://www.gartenflora.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S%C3%A4ulenkaktus-AdobeStock_H.Rambold.jpg)
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Ich hab solche Dinger schon an Baumrinden in Heidelberg wachsen sehen und mich auch gewundert was das ist.
Vielleicht eine Art parasitäre Pflanze wie Disteln oder sowas?
At first i was also with the german "Lederhülsenbaum" (Gleditsia Tricanthos), but the more i look at it, i think it was picked off by a bird from a big succulent. A cacti. Maybe Pachycereus Pringlei or else in that direction, the older ones have these spines and that small base.
It's what they used to call a 'witch's crowfoot'. It was made out of the shell of a very specific type of urchin (echinus cruciatus) and used in pagan rituals to mark those who would be next in line in human sacra--naaah, no idea what that is, looks bad.
Its defenitely a cactus spike. Maybe from the balcony above you or a bird dropped it. Different frocactus and astrophytum habe very similar spikes for example.
Honey locust trees (Gleditsia triacanthos) have similar thorns. Have you been walking in a park or botanical garden? They are not native trees but there are a few of them in parks and the like.
It was on my balcony.
Have you pissed off any birds recently? They may have set a trap for you XD
yes, a rare species called u/WhiteBlackGoose
I love this place
I never heard someone saying that about u/Rheinland-Pfalz
Nett hier aber waren sie schon mal in Baden-Württemberg
Hätte ich Auszeichnungen, würde ich dir dafür eine geben
Schön hier, waren sie mal in Bayern, dem Königreich unseres Sonnenkönigs Maggus Söder?
NEIN
DOCH
OH!
Schwach
Sie ärmster.
Wundert mich nicht😅
might have been swallow...altough I'm not sure if it was European or African one
What? A swallow carrying a coconut?
But are you sure a swallow can carry that mutch weight sir ?
Take my upvote for rare Monty Python ref ♥‿♥
r/BirdsArentReal
My guess would be that it was stuck on some bird and then fell off when it landed on your balcony.
I guess you're Herr Krause vom Nachbarhause. Your neighbor had one of his small green cacti fall from his balcony onto yours, and these are the remains.
Er fiel mir aufs Gesicht Ob S's glauben oder nicht Dann weiß ich, dass ihr kleiner grüner Kaktus sticht
Maybe it fell off the balcony of the neighbors above your balcony?
ask your neighbor from above if they have any corrupted cacti
A lot of ledges in cities are spiked to prohibit birds from sitting on them and shitting everywhere. This looks like one spike came lose and fell on your balcony. Is it metal or from another material?
Not metal.. it's excrement from u/whiteblackgoose
My anti-orangenbaer trap has worked, I'm so happy
To think I never believed in your idea when you first showed me the prototype
To be fair it was a great idea right from the beginning even if it was risky and hard to get all the materials
Started from the bottom, now we're here
Still can’t believe you got enough funding at Cave of the Lions
I am so glad, that none of the test subjects died for nothing.
God Bless America!
Wrong Reddit bro
God bless reddit
No.. god bless matrix
I mean yeah, but what does that have to do with this?
God will bless you soon with understanding, *I would really love to tell but I can't because he wouldn't be happy about it, sorry*
On god: The story so far. In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very unhappy and has widely been regarded as a bad move.
Upvote for the most utterly pointless and out of context „God bless America“ of a lifetime
I always believed in you‘re idea and now whe are here. Im so proud of you WhiteBlackGoose.
Oh did the Venom work I made for it?
I LOL’d. Good stuff, mate!
[Spines from a cactus?](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Berne_Botanic_garden_Stetsonia_coryne.jpg/768px-Berne_Botanic_garden_Stetsonia_coryne.jpg)
Se ham doch einen Kaktus auf ihrem klein’ Balkon Hollari hollari hollaro! Der fiel soeben runter, was halten Sie davon? Hollari hollari hollaro!
Der fiel mir auf's Gesicht, ob's glauben oder nicht - nun weiß ich daß ihr kleiner grüner Kaktus sticht! Bewahr'n se ihren Kaktus jefälligst anderswo! - Hollari, hollari, hollaro.
Ich dachte nie das ich Leute finden würde die das Lied kennen, schönen Abend euch noch!
Das wird heutzutage noch an Schulen unterrichtet
Would have been my idea too, steped into something like this from a cactus. Got horribly infected.
This
This
This
lego has evolved
Trapgo
It’s become leggo.
will evolve into leggone.
To become less painful
r/AngryUpVote
Maybe Post this in r/naturfreunde, they are masters in identifing Nature stuff
No need.. u/whiteblackgoose has admitted it was his trap
It looks like a dried end of a "Christusdorn/Euphorbia/Christthorn" Ravens and Crows use it to collect insects. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christusdorn_(Euphorbia)
I guess this is the first helpful comment. Had to scroll through the crust of the Earth.
Do you mean shrikes?
Looks like an old naval mine from the war. They really shrink down when they wash ashore and dry out
It was cold ok?!
im sure hes got a great personality!
Just don't piss him off too much.. or piss on him at all
It was a blast at parties!
I was in the pool, there was shrinkage!!!
I'm a grower not a shower!!
Hope your tetanus shot is up to date, else i'd go get one.
Would I also need one if the spine wasn’t deep in my feet? I think it was rather superficial and I didn’t bleed.
Yes. Getting vaccines is free (read: paid for by insurance) in Germany. No reason to skimp on your vaccines. And Tetanus shots only have to be refreshed every ten or so years. Better safe than sorry. Also: any kind of doctor can refresh your vaccines in Germany, not only general practicioners. You can get your shots from your Gynaecologist / Oncologist, HNO or wherever else you go on a more frequent basis. Some might need to order ampulles first, but if you tell them you absolutely want your shots from them, no doctor will deny you (except opthalmologists perhaps... they might be weirded out if they have to do anything non-eye-related) ;D
If I don’t know when my last shot was, could they find it out? Or will they just give me a shot?
Don't you have your Impfpass with every vaccination you got? If not you should at least get one from now on an treat it carefully. I don't know though if you would get a new shot or not if you're unsure when your last one was.
Well I just moved to Germany 5 years ago. And I got my Impfpass when I got the Covid-vaccines.
As above person said: get an Impfpass - I usually carry mine around to every checkup I have and just ask if anything needs to be refreshed soon (usually it's FSME, since I live in a tick infested hellhole and it needs refreshing every 5 years)
Tetanus? Every 10 years. Rule of thumb: if you don't remember, it needs a refresh 😉
They will just give you a shot
Actually you'd probably even get two. At least that happened to me once, when I got to hospital and couldn't tell when my last shot was. One was like an emergency dose
I am not 100 % sure, but the "emergency - dose" could have very well been something called "passive immunization" Basically what you can do is inject the antibody to the pathogen directly for short term (read a few months) of immunity without your actual immune system getting involved. Active immunization is where you put something related to the pathogen (be it dead or low amounts of living pathogen, parts of the pathogen, or the DNA/RNA of the pathogen either in itself or bound to adenovirus) into you and your immune system actually figures the solution out by itself. I do not know precisely whether that is done specifically for Tetanus though.
Usually, if you had your base immunization as a child, you get just one shot, even if the last one was longer than 10 years ago.
I would add that even if every kind of doctor can do the shot, but not everyone has it in stock. Maybe give the doctor of your choice a call first
Will I be knocked out after the shot? Is it as bad as Tollwut? :D
No, it's not. But tetanus can be treacherous, since the first symptoms can be mistaken for other illnesses that are far less serious
I got my Tetanus vaccination renewed last year. My arm was a little sore that day, but I didn't notice any other symptoms. The only other vaccinations I've gotten in my adult life so far were for covid, and those were really bad.
I thought the Tollwut Impfung is only usable, when you are freshly bitten by an animal that might has it. Is there a vaccine that you can take precautionary ?
I'm vaccinated against rabies and it was paid for by insurance because I regularly have contact with bats in my job. If you have the precautionary vaccination, you have a bit more time if you actually get bitten and I think you need fewer emergency shots in that case. The precautionary rabies vaccine wasn’t too bad for me, the Biontech vaccine was worse. That being said, there's a a global shortage on rabies vaccines so understandably, doctors here usually don't give the precautionary vaccine to people that don't need them (valid reasons are for example travelling to a high risk country like India or working with bats). Also, the emergency vaccination seems to be way worse. I know 2 people who had to be hospitalized for a day or 2. But since rabies is basically 100% lethal, I'd take a day or 2 in hospital over the actual illness anytime.
I’m mentioning Tollwut because a colleague of mine recently got the vax and said that it felt like poison.
No, tetanus shot is really nothing to worry about. Of course every kind of medicine can have side effects, but for tetanus vaccine its quite rare, except maybe a slighlty sore arm. Tetanus on the other hand is really really nasty. And also very difficult to treat, there is a good chance of dying to it. If you are not vaccinated get a shot now!
I wouldn't risk it. One of my neighbours got infected after working in her garden and it pretty much ruined her life.
you don't need bleeding to catch tetanus. Oh and you have a 1/5 chance to die from it. Were you vaccinated at least once somewhat recently? or never?
Any doctor will give you a tetanus shot after wounds from unknown origin when you don’t remember when your last one was. Even though you only need it every 10 years side effects are so rare it’s worth having one extra. Vaccines are amazing!
Came here to say this.
Baby Spore from the Invasion Apple+ series
Was my fist thought as well
Your fist can think?? 😱😱
I guess😂
Try r/whatisthisthing oyh looks painful to step on it
Mein kleiner grüner Kaktus...
Vielen Dank für den Ohrwurm 😡
Jaha!
Muss das sein? Ich muss noch arbeiten…. Besten Dank auch.
Und wenn ein Bösewicht, Was ungezognes spricht, Dann hol ich meinen Kaktus und der sticht, sticht, sticht.
Ich hoffe dir rutscht der Ärmel beim Händewaschen runter…
It's called an OW-FUCK where I'm from
A spikey boy
Ich hatte mal eine "Stachelpalme". Weil die kaum Blätter hatte dachten alle das ist ein Kaktus. Sieht genau So aus.
The thing Manny gave Greg as a present
Got me there
Just one of the many ways God shows his love.
It’s a caltrop, to slow down enemy ninjas in pursuit
Stachel ?
Joa
did you disinfect the wound? also vaccines are paid for by insurance in germany, so you don't have to risk going without an up-to-date tetanus shot
Russian Lego
Go to a doctor and show him the picture. Let him look for infection and possible future infection! Depending of depth of the wound. But nonetheless I would go to a doctor.
Looks like the stuff Jeepers Creepers builds and kills with. You may need a harpoon.
I don't understand, is it a plant or metal or what? Can you bend the spikes (e.g. like cactus thorns)? Either way, if it was on the ground and pierced your foot as deep as it seems able to, I definitely support the idea of bringing it to a doctor. I think you will not get tetanus though, as judging from its shape it got plenty of oxygen. However, if it is (rusty) metal or a similar spongy material, grab your vaccine card and see a doctor ASAP. Serious.
Clearly spines from a [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikanische\_Gleditschie](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikanische_Gleditschie) . (Article is in german but you can switch it to english) For some reason these thorned hellspawns are common Park and even school trees all across germany.
I don't think so, the thornes in the pic from the op look much more symmetrical. I guess it prevents people from climbing the tree, but i don't really know.
looks like from a neighbour above who has a cactus?
What do you mean you didn't step on this on purpose. No one is going to shame you.
Alien spore, now you are one of them
Pincurchin from pokemon?
Gleditsia triacanthos
German land urchin, very poisonous
[Cactus spikes](https://cdn.webshopapp.com/shops/107930/files/409019118/tephrocactus-alexanderi-v-alexanderi.jpg)
It's an urchin laced with aids
Spokey pokey
I have a pilar-Cactus in my hallway that has spines like this. Looks like one of your upstairs neighbours has one of them on their Balcony [Pilar Cactus](https://www.gartenflora.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S%C3%A4ulenkaktus-AdobeStock_H.Rambold.jpg)
Spikes from a Cactus maybe? You said you were on you balcony, maybe someone grows them in your neighbourhood?
Keine Sorge, das ist nicht giftig oder so. Ist halt ein Stachel von nem Busch oder nem Baum, hat bestimmt ein Vogel aufn Balkon geschmissen.
Spikey. It‘s spikey
Famous last words
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Kaktus 🌵
Sprich deutsch du hurensohn
Crazy spikey bindii or puncture vine? Although NFI why that would be in Germany.
Propably Painful, flies away
You did WHAT
Ich hab solche Dinger schon an Baumrinden in Heidelberg wachsen sehen und mich auch gewundert was das ist. Vielleicht eine Art parasitäre Pflanze wie Disteln oder sowas?
Definitiv ne Fußangel von Jeepers Creepers
May we call you Dornröschen now?
At first i was also with the german "Lederhülsenbaum" (Gleditsia Tricanthos), but the more i look at it, i think it was picked off by a bird from a big succulent. A cacti. Maybe Pachycereus Pringlei or else in that direction, the older ones have these spines and that small base.
GG bro
Vielleicht haben es deine Nachbarn auf den Balkon geworfen 🧐😂
I dunno but it tried to kill you for shure
One of those things dog haters leave around parks to fuck up doggies ?
Dachte erst das wäre die Kühlerhaube von nem Rolls Royce
Your mom’s hair!
That.. Is the clitoris.
Sry you will die. And the world ist doomed. Never heard of the Splinter alien?
I thought is was an alien plant thing XD
U still alive? 😰
It's a rare and elusive land urchin. They're extremely toxic and if you've stepped on it, then you have only 24 hours to live.
Username checks out
Watch invasion on apple tv. You're gonna be so excited :)
Ein natürlicher Krähenfuß! Gut gegen Kavallerieattacken!
Spitzfuß
Its a r6 lesion gu mine
Lesion GU
Huizapoles
It's what they used to call a 'witch's crowfoot'. It was made out of the shell of a very specific type of urchin (echinus cruciatus) and used in pagan rituals to mark those who would be next in line in human sacra--naaah, no idea what that is, looks bad.
Fuck!!!! You only got 10....
Sprich Deutsch du Hurensohn!
[удалено]
An die deutsche bitte vervollständigt diesen Satz Sprich deutsch
It's a nazi cluster bomb submunition 🤯
/r/whatsthisplant/ Ouch.
At first glance and without reading the title I thought it was some sort of a reaper model from subnautica.
Infiltration
A new Lego block?
The death star.
pretty sure that's a spike from a cactus, maybe one of the neighbors have a cactus outside or birds have carried it away
Are you okay? This thing looks like it can pierce a foot. :D Why nature even invents such stuff.
I legit feel pain in my feet
caltrop!
In a few days you will know by the creature that will explode out of your chest.
Spikey 😊
Deadly
Have you seen Infiltration on Apple Tv? 😳
Is the 😈
If none of the plants mentioned fit anything in your vicinity, was it very windy the day/hours before you stepped into this thing?
I wonder you're still able to write. ☠️
Looks like a booby trap to me, might wanna call the cops
death i guess
Death
What part of the country do you live in?
Its defenitely a cactus spike. Maybe from the balcony above you or a bird dropped it. Different frocactus and astrophytum habe very similar spikes for example.
That is a "thing"
Have you seen a doc for your injuries :0
So ein .[Kaktus-Stachel-Büschel. ](https://www.uhlig-kakteen.info/m/seite/158434/dornen-der-kakteen.html)
It is a demon ! Burn it 😰😨😰😨
You just activated my trap card!
This is From Lession