Pertinax
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just imagine having these things in your purse, the stuff we have now looks like it was made by gnomes with a hangover, using lead.
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Purple! lol all of the foxglove I've encountered to date has been white or a soft pinkish color...that vibrant purple is new to me. Sure is pretty though
please note the spots inside each "glove" this is where the elves are said to have touched the flowers-lot of elves about obviously,fingerprints everywhere.
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This appears similar to what's commonly known around here as "Jack in the Pulpit" and which grows in swamps...I'm fairly certain it isn't the same thing but are they related?
The subject plant has a European only range, maybe a family member?
after further reference:-
I see that we have an American cousin in fact, though a rather taller growing (3 feet) one with some charachteristics namely the extreme irritation caused by the fresh plant to the gastro intestinal tract, indeed I see that some Native Americans (the Meskwaki Peoples ( I hope I got your name correct folks))) took advantadge of the presence of calcium oxalate to leave poisoned meat for enemies (mainly the Sioux I am lead to believe) after soaking in this herb.
There are some mean little plants out there.
Indian Turnip is I understand another name or possibly, pepper turnip. -
Looks like a marvelous flower with the exception of the leaves.
The flower is glorious but the leaves look sickly
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LOL yea...though I usually tell by the smell. In most cases, you can tell right off because the two smell very different. Carrots don't always have carrotish roots though, especialy not early in the year.
Yep Yarrow smells! Hence the common name Old Man's Pepper, and it was used in snuff. It also happens to be called Devil's Plaything.Wild carrot has at the heart of the flower a pink/purple colouration.
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The "head" side is a giveaway as well -where did she get that hat!
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Well..it grows here, in America. I'm not entirely sure how to tell except that I know what yarrow is, and I know what yarrow isn't, by the color and the smell. I have no use for carrot and no use for hemlock, so I mainly concern myself with being sure it's yarrow
The other very obvious test is simple-uproot it! Yarrow doesnt have a carrot for a root!
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Carrot isn't poisonous...there is another though, hemlock I believe, that is and looks similar to both.
Yarrow has grayish leaves and is "fluffier" carrot has flatter, greener, "thinner" leaves. Yarrow also smells sort of spicy, like an herb and the others, hemlock and carrot, dont. Carrot sort of stinks
Again correct, I was thinking of putting Hemlock up next for that very reason-but I didnt want a big rush to execute any dissenting philosophers , though I wasnt aware that any hemlock had escaped its european range.Id suggest that the Hemlock is a "heavier" umbillifer .Im sure everyone is aware of Conium maculatums use as a state poison in Greece,a sort of "lethal bevarage " execution.
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Are you sure that's Yarrow? It looks kind of like "Queen Anne's Lace" which grows in abundance around here...which is actually wild carrot. (the two are VERY similar...)
Weird you should say that because I ws agonising over that picture-its a couple of years old and I like to take closeup shots to be certain-but I didnt and the pixellation is a bit coarser on the obselete canon I used.They are hard to tell apart-I decided Yarrow was more likely though.Dont worry about anyone getting poisoned by an error-the carrot has some overlapping properties with Yarrow, mainly for the kidneys/gout. Wouldnt be much use for wounds though.Eagle eyes there. :angel:
I think the Carrot is ever so slightly whispier in form
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Dandelions and chickweed are both edible. Dandelions need cooked methinks (or turned to wine) and chickweed you just pick up and eat...its very good
though it doesn't do much for you medicine wise and I do not know about the nutritive value.The dandelion is an excellent diuretic and rich in potassium, chickweed was used for rheumatic pain, but is excellent as a dressing for skin problems-it is used here to soothe eczema( in a base cream), and has a high Vit c content.
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is he sober?
Hoc ei propinabo! (Ill drink to that!)
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What kind of bird is that? It looks like a plastic bird...I've never seen a black bird with an orange beak before.
Its a Blackbird! This chap is a mature male, the female is (I regret to say) a rather frumpy brown.
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Are those berries seriously white.
yes in fact they are a disturbingly pearly white colour-they have a hint of poison about them
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Breathtaking!
The inn next to the bridge was where my main birthday meal was held-there is a fertility dance on the green in May , if you have seen "Wicker Man" the hobby horse is very similar ,(and local women dash under its skirts to ensure fertlity), though no human sacrifice is involved!
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can you give us some general info on this site?
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Imposing. What is or was hunted in this area?
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Quite interesting... this is the first I have heard of this bugger
Its an odd one, this is one of the few herbs not readily available in Britain,( I say readily you can actually get it if you try) ,its provenance for Rome would be Africa and Numidia ,its a tough plant and seems to be everywhere except in extremely cold areas. It is an arsenal of toxins , no wonder the Oracle was so so vivid .
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Magnificent!
1. Maltese 5 cent piece (my personal favourite-these were made for me)
2. Greek Drachma ( found these on Saville Row, chap made various links and had them on display sale or return-sadly Tobias Tailors has now closed)
3. withdrawn pre metric British threepenny bit.(threepenny bits were v popular as links because people were so nostalgic about them).
4.some fish!
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I wonder if this may have been a sacred plant of Hermes...
"Odysseus stepped quickly over the threshold into the palace. He found the Phaiakian lords and rulers pouring libations from their cups to the Euskopos Argeiphontes [Hermes] to whom by custom they poured libation last when they turned their thoughts to the nights rest..." -Odyssey 7.137
"She [Maia] bare a son [Hermes] ... a bringer of dreams, a watcher by night" -Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes
I dont think I have the reference work I need to check this to hand-so my reply will be defered.
Just as an aside the herb was apparently called "phu" by Hippocrates because of its unedifying smell.
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A slight hint of Our Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth the Second in the features.
I use "our" as in belonging to or pertaining to those British.
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Ah! I was actually going to ask you about what the ancients had to say about Valerian!
My own experience with it (as a sleep aid of course), is that it doesn't make me drowsy or sleepy like some may feel is implied by it's suggested use. What it does for me at least is that once I am asleep, I have vivid and prolific dreams...
Of course since REM sleep is when the body does the most repair work, I feel exceedingly refreshed in the morning.
You are completeley correct, the herb does not of itself make a person drowsy but induces a deep "hypnotic" sleep, so as the mind is free to dream Jung would suggest to us that significant healing dreams would occur or perhaps especially insightful dreams.Its historical use is for insomnia and excitability. It does not cause somnolence after deep sleep. Its little known use is for digestion and tumourous growths in the stomach.
The herb is often mixed with other nervines (passiflora, scutellaria, wood betony to relieve physical nerve pain.
It is a mainstay of the natural treatment of shingles/ herpes zoster along with a high dose of b vitamins.
Galen used the herb for epilepsy , amongst the ancients it was used to ease menstrual cramping and to aid other diuretic herbs, so its nervine qualities are both relevant to the mind and the body.
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How cold can it get over there in Britannia, oh please put it in Fahrenheit.
It was 27 degs F when I took this yesterday( wind chill being about -7).
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no -wings are good -as in Romeo and Juliet
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"black ships before troy?"
Comfrey Herb , knitbone, consolida (Symphytum officianalis )
in Everything Else
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and as an underarm deoderant!