Developing situations:
Destroying Angels
and Datura
Updated again a month and a half later:
Datura stramonium, a.k.a. Jimsonweed, a.k.a. Thornapple,
does grow naturally in Illinois.
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I still haven't received a confirmation (or correction) about the mushroom that I plucked from the yard some time ago. Today, I noticed four mushrooms growing in the same area where I found the first. Closer inspection of these young fungi leads me to think that they are "Destroying Angels" (Amanita bisporigera).
The curious thing was that they emerged from an empty patch of the front yard, quite some distance from any trees or shrubs. Amanita species typically grow among the roots of certain woody plants.
However, my Lady Friend just informed me that a tree grew in that area many years ago.
Meanwhile, in the backyard...
The Datura is about to bloom!
I don't know if this plant (of all plants) volunteered itself, or if there were seeds left over from a packet that I bought that got mixed in with everything else I put into that bed.
Anyhow, after a couple weeks of looking at this plant and thinking, "It looks like Datura... but come on," it became clear that this was what I had. This was just after I bought a discounted Datura innoxia at a local nursery and put it in the wildflower berm.
Datura is one of my favorite plants, which I was introduced to while I read The Teachings of Don Juan in New Mexico several years ago. Having become familiar with the plant in relation to shamanism and secret societies -- there are references made in The Serpent and The Rainbow, for example -- my mouth fell open when I saw it used as an ornamental all over Columbus, Ohio.
The species in the yard is Datura stramonium, by the way.
Datura stramonium, a.k.a. Jimsonweed, a.k.a. Thornapple,
does grow naturally in Illinois.
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1111px version
Back to the original post:
I still haven't received a confirmation (or correction) about the mushroom that I plucked from the yard some time ago. Today, I noticed four mushrooms growing in the same area where I found the first. Closer inspection of these young fungi leads me to think that they are "Destroying Angels" (Amanita bisporigera).
The curious thing was that they emerged from an empty patch of the front yard, quite some distance from any trees or shrubs. Amanita species typically grow among the roots of certain woody plants.
However, my Lady Friend just informed me that a tree grew in that area many years ago.
Meanwhile, in the backyard...
The Datura is about to bloom!
I don't know if this plant (of all plants) volunteered itself, or if there were seeds left over from a packet that I bought that got mixed in with everything else I put into that bed.
Anyhow, after a couple weeks of looking at this plant and thinking, "It looks like Datura... but come on," it became clear that this was what I had. This was just after I bought a discounted Datura innoxia at a local nursery and put it in the wildflower berm.
Datura is one of my favorite plants, which I was introduced to while I read The Teachings of Don Juan in New Mexico several years ago. Having become familiar with the plant in relation to shamanism and secret societies -- there are references made in The Serpent and The Rainbow, for example -- my mouth fell open when I saw it used as an ornamental all over Columbus, Ohio.
The species in the yard is Datura stramonium, by the way.
Developing situations:
Destroying Angels
and Datura
mr damon, 10:02
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