Punching holes in poison ivy leaves sounds like a good way to get a rash.
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Not sure how long it takes, but I hear tell there's biodegradable glitter.
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In Australia there's a tree called Gympie-Gympie.
"Gympie" is a powerful swear-word in the local aboriginal language (like "Fucking cunt!") and in that language, repeating a word twice is like amplifying it 10x. They named this tree the most aggressive swear they could come up with.
The tree is covered in tiny hypodermic needle-like hairs. Brushing against it leaves you coated in these hairs which inflict a pain that has been described as like being burned with fire, except with fire, your nerve endings are eventually destroyed. Not so with the Gympie-Gympie.
Pain from an encounter has been known to last for months or years. There is a story of a soldier on patrol who used it's leaves as toilet paper. He committed suicide after a few weeks. There's a report of a horse which brushed one of these trees, and it went mad and ran nonstop until it found a cliff and ran right over the edge to its death.
Gympie-Gympie leaves would make the most cursed glitter imaginable
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All natural biological warfare
Extracting urisol for entirely legitimate purposes
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I'm pretty sure purchasing a glitter bomb-worth of glitter does not determine whether that same amount will be subsequently manufactured. the glitter has already been made. might was well make the most of it.
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