• NegativeInf@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Maybe a fun obituary. Or a nice arrest write up. Doubtful any of the plants I work with are significant. Mostly model organisms and their relatives or local plants I have always loved. Unless the Smilax rotundifolia I have suddenly ends up a Devil’s Snare.

    Fun fact, the shoots of young Smilax rotundifolia taste a bit like asparagus when cooked and in native cultures was used as a sexual performance enhancer among other things.

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        2 months ago

        Mild ones at best. Or just a tasty veg when sauteed if it’s only placebo.

        ^And ^if ^they ^are, ^why ^not ^have ^a ^nice ^gimmick ^to ^motivate ^men ^to ^eat ^something ^other ^than ^meat.

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          Yeah, okay, meanwhile the local garbage dump is getting overrun with some weird new plant that grows like crazy and causes anything to eat it to go sex crazed.

          …. And I will help spread this plant to every country on earth. Biodiversity be dammed, we’re gonna make love, not war.

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            I recently read about The war Scotland is having with gray squirrels and for some reason it made me feel really patriotic.

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            Same cloth. I once considered selectively breeding Dodder. A non-photosynthesizing parasitic plant that is bright red or pink. Only reason? Because it looks like the stuff from the Tom Cruise War of the Worlds movie.

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