It's not easy being GREEN
16/12/2022 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaIt sometimes pays to be a curious weed loving creature.
Lots of stories in Oz lately about inflation, cost of living, Christmas and the usual.
But out of left field, a strange tale about psychedelic spinach.
My first assumption, this dodgy stuff is from China. But no. It was locally grown.
But the list of symptoms made me quite curious.
Delusions, hallucinations, increased heart rate etc.
Sounds awfully like my lovely Angel Trumpet babies but no way could they pass as spinach Unless it was their close relation Datura which used to grow wild where I lived in Germany. It often hung out in freshly disturbed ground along with its mousy partner in crime - hemlock.
It could also be some critter containing oxalic acid or digitalis (foxgloves and friends) but they stand out like sore thumbs in a field of spinach.
After a bit of trawling, I did finally find the culprit in the very last sentence of a reasonably long article.
It turned out to be Thorn Apple after all. A lovely member of the solanaceae family (which includes potatoes, eggplants, tomatoes and chillies)
And also Angel's trumpets (Brugmansias)
So this geekish weed lover had correctly suspected the culprit after all.
Lots of stories in Oz lately about inflation, cost of living, Christmas and the usual.
But out of left field, a strange tale about psychedelic spinach.
My first assumption, this dodgy stuff is from China. But no. It was locally grown.
But the list of symptoms made me quite curious.
Delusions, hallucinations, increased heart rate etc.
Sounds awfully like my lovely Angel Trumpet babies but no way could they pass as spinach Unless it was their close relation Datura which used to grow wild where I lived in Germany. It often hung out in freshly disturbed ground along with its mousy partner in crime - hemlock.
It could also be some critter containing oxalic acid or digitalis (foxgloves and friends) but they stand out like sore thumbs in a field of spinach.
After a bit of trawling, I did finally find the culprit in the very last sentence of a reasonably long article.
It turned out to be Thorn Apple after all. A lovely member of the solanaceae family (which includes potatoes, eggplants, tomatoes and chillies)
And also Angel's trumpets (Brugmansias)
So this geekish weed lover had correctly suspected the culprit after all.
