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choad · 2008-05-13 20:04:31

It's worth noting somewhere the most intense short term narcotic I've ever encountered was a garden variety flower, and just its scent at that.

This little critter just short circuited by brain for half an hour. They should outlaw the fucking things.

tits_matilda · 2008-05-13 20:52:44

mmm... Wish I could find this in a domestically viable form. In PA, between the buckwheat fields and stands of oak and hemlock, the odor of these was the best assurance that spring had struck and wouldn't leave until summer.

George Orr · 2008-05-13 21:06:09

choad wrote:
It's worth noting somewhere the most intense short term narcotic I've ever encountered was a garden variety flower, and just its scent at that.
http://www.missouriplants.com/Whitealt/ … flower.jpg

This little critter just short circuited by brain for half an hour. They should outlaw the fucking things.

I miss those flowers. They don't grow in the fucked-up sterile concrete that is North TX soil, and though San Antonio is much prettier, apparently they don't grow down here either.

I always thought the flower above was some kind of inbred daffodil, since they are often seen here and there in the daffy fields,* but apparently they are their own species. Lovely things.

*That's right, in my blessed home state of NC daffodils go wild and spread out of people's gardens. There are whole fields of them in vacant lots and such. Those bulbs never die.

choad · 2008-05-13 21:41:58

Accounts from a previous tenant mentioned daffodils he planted in the swamp behind this house and I found them, 150 years later. They've adjusted to the move but I honestly know shit about growing things I can't eat or smoke. Around here, they always compete with rendolent low tide. Bulldosers haven't entirely crushed our native lady slippers, may flowers, beach plums and wild roses.

Taint · 2008-05-14 02:26:57

Back in Alaska, high-bush cranberries grow wild just about everywhere in the southcentral region of the state. Although they're not actually cranberries, they make wonderful jelly and have a clean, tart flavor. That, of course, is completely at odds with their smell: when they're ripe, they smell exactly like dog shit.