The slivery trail is slime.

这条银白色的痕迹是黏液。

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Slivery red, Hydrangea _shaped; stout straight stems, short stalks, dense tiny leaves in deep green, branching freely, mid_inflorescence.

银红色，绣球型。颈粗直。柄短。叶密小，深绿色。株型直立，分枝力强。花期中。

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Get through that covering layer and the underlying slivery colour of the aluminium itself will show through the black layer.

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This was just the first in a near-comical procession of lurking horrors from anaconda that can digest an entire deer to the slivery candiru (parasitic toothpick fish) that can lodge, die and rot in your urethra, from puraques (eels) that can send 650 volts of electricity into their prey to bullet ants whose stings feel like being shot (all dangers we thankfully avoided).

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