OT: Fw: Easter Lilies and trivia, or, Name your poison
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- Subject: OT: Fw: Easter Lilies and trivia, or, Name your poison
- From: j*
- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 23:04:28 -0400
Here's a tidbit just sent to me by a cousin in Texas:
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Crump <tomcrump@swbell.net>
To: Burrell, Dessa J. <105023.453@compuserve.com>; Crump, Fred E
<fcrump@juno.com>; Crump, J. Griffin <jgcrump@erols.com>; Crump, Tom A.
<tom@crumprealty.com>; Gann, William <ganntoms@earthlink.net>; Jr., Ed
Crump. <KB5CX@idt.net>; Schwarzburg, Ken <kschwarz@alltel.net>; Sloan, Annie
Lee <alsloan@juno.com>
Date: Friday, April 21, 2000 10:26 PM
Subject: Easter Lilies and trivia
>In accordance with my ongoing trivia for some of you...
>
>In my yard grows a flowering plant that some of you have seen and I have
>mistakeningly called it a "Moon plant."
>
>Tonight, I know it is not a Moon plant....
>
>This gorgeous flowering plant blooms only at night from March through
>the summer with an intoxicating fragrance and single blossoms that can
>only be described as 6-8 inches in length and similar to an Easter Lily.
>
>Well, read below....
>
>"Thornapples (Datura)
>
>"British troops were sent to Jamestown in 1676 to suppress a rebellion.
>Short of rations, they cooked the foliage of a plant that has been ever
>after known familiarly as Jimsonweed. The result was described by Robert
>Beverley in his 'History and Present State of Virginia (1705)'. 'They
>turn'd natural fools upon it for several days. One would blow up a
>feather in the air; another would dart straws at it with much fury; and
>another stark naked was sitting up in a corner like a monkey, grinning
>and making mows at them.' After 11 days, they 'return'd to themselves
>again, not remembering any thing that had pass'd.' Had the British not
>cooked the leaves, few would have survived, for the potent hallucinogens
>produced by Thornapples are extremely toxic. Another species, the Indian
>Apple, or Sacred Datura (Datura meteloides), with flowers up to 10
>inches long, was used by Indians of the Southwest for a variety of
>rituals.
>
>"Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium)
>
>"Size: 1-7 ft. tall; flower 3-4 in. long.
>"What to look for: flowers white to lavender, trumpetlike, leaves oval,
>pointed, coarsely toothed, fruit spiny.
>"Habitat: fields, clearings, waste areas.
>"In bloom: June-Oct."
>
>Wernert, Susan J, editor. North American Wildlife, The Reader's Digest
>Association, Inc., 1982, Page 415.
>
>Tom Crump, in a fragrant Seguin, Texas
>
>
Well, fortunately, iris don't do THAT.
Griff
jgcrump@erols.com in Virginia
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