Posted on 06/27/2018 2:49:37 PM PDT by BBell
Someone I knew had terrible hallucinations from Jimsonweed for hours once, when I was a teenager. It was scary to see.
TTIWWP
(Usually reserved for topics unrelated to weeds but...)
Hmmm, a new millennial fad?
Same for poison ivy smoke.
Bkmrk.
The liberus hypocriticus fascia is the most poisenous plant known ever in the history of mankind.
It leeches onto the body politic and sucks it dry all the time disguised as just another leaf.
Oleander may look nice, but tastes horrible. Not much chance of anyone eating it. As a kid, we had it in our yard, and most kids in the neighborhood tasted it on a dare. It’s intensely bitter in the worst way.
Ginger used Oleander to cook up rat poison in Gilligan’s Island. It’s serious stuff. Freaked out Gilligan because it fed into his homicide paranoia, can’t remember what it was that triggered him.
Dang! And I thought Lisa’s hotscakes were bad.
At least the hotscakes were edible, barely!
No mushrooms, no poison ivy, poison oak.
And the most dangerous of all: Kudzoo pelososaurus democratratorious!
They left one off of the list:
The Hildabeast
The Hildabeast, or Leftwingus Fatcalvious, has pretty ugly seeds (see the result: Uglius ChelHubbell Howdydoodius). The outer portion of the seed is an eerily deep red, with a black heart. These seeds are very unsteady - when placed on a flat surface, they fall over at unpredictable intervals for undetermined reasons. These seeds are highly poisonous - so much so that even looking at them can cause immediate paralysis and a stone-like skin texture, which is incurable. The plant seems to enjoy alcohol, the stronger the better.
In the 60’s in Florida, I remember some tourists went to the hospital when they used oleander branches to cook their hot fogs over a fire. ( the good old days - open fires on the beach). Also I had a pet rabbit die on Sullivans Island Sc when it escaped and feed on the oleander that was planted as a privacy hedge on our house.
Blind as a bat, mad as a hatter, red as a beet, hot as Hell, dry as a bone.
If I remember my tales from the ER...
Let’s see... there’s Jimson Weed, Castor Bean, and Oleander all within walking distance... this is a regular witches’ cauldron of a neighborhood.
We also have Mexican Pencil Tree but it’s not on the list. Should be.
Appropriate since vegetables count as plants.
Oh, and seeing little people:
I was looking for the truth of life
When I came across all these little people, little people
Little people all around me.
Oh.
I thought it was going to be a thread about John McCain, George Will or maybe Jeff ‘da’ Flake.
Bttt.
5.56mm
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