To: nickcarraway
Same stuff that Gene Autrey sang about in Back in the Saddle Again, "Where the lonely cattle feed, on the lowly gypsym weed". Locoweed. Does have a pretty flower. I grew up in the Texas Panhandle, where you'd see it a lot. Never had any notion to eat it, though.
19 posted on
08/03/2011 4:13:32 AM PDT by
Spartan79
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To: Spartan79
This was popular with teenagers in Ohio some years back. They would boil the seed to remove the toxins then smoke it. The high wasn’t so pleasurable so the fad fizzled out in one summer.
I used to grow some. It was fun watching them open as the sun was going down. Lunar moths would visit them at night. The same moths are flying all over my mimosa trees at night now.
21 posted on
08/03/2011 4:31:22 AM PDT by
RadiationRomeo
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