Wizards and witches can easily buy this plant at the apothecary and herbology shops, as it is a common household plant. Not only are the sharp fangs used in a lot of potions, like Strength Potion, as well as in Skele-Gro, but it can also be used in cooking. Caring for fanged geraniums isn’t too hard. As long as you consistently care for them, they only give you small, minor bites as a warning not to get too close, as compared to heavier bites that wizards get when they forget to care for it. They like to be watered consistently at the same time every day. Their fangs can really hurt when they bite hard – I learned that the hard way.

The fangs can be removed while the plant is still alive, although that is considered quite cruel. It’s not known how long they live for, but some of the textbooks say that they can live for several decades at a time.

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162 words | Mason Skeeter

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