Oscar
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When you've walked as much bush as I have you start to notice similarities between the plants, trees, minerals and the wildlife.
First off there's no doubt in my mind that the animals don't 'feed or frolic' in areas where there are ferrous minerals. The leaching of the zinc, copper......or any of the radio-active type minerals are more apparent to them than to us.
I've been writing short stories about my adventures in the bush, which don't include 'My Secret Garden'.
My scribblings are all about the local medicinal herbs that grow in my zone and the correlation between them, the trees and the minerals present.
Bella Donna (Evening Night Shade)
Tall, bushy, herbaceous plant, the deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), of the nightshade family; also, the crude drug consisting of its dried leaves or roots.
It has dull green leaves, violet or greenish flowers, shiny black berries about the size of cherries, and a large, tapering root. Belladonna is highly poisonous and is cultivated for medicinal substances (alkaloids) that are derived from the crude drug and used in sedatives, stimulants, and antispasmodics. Because of toxicity and undesirable side effects, these substances are being replaced by synthetic drugs.
Alkaloids are amines, so their names usually end in “ine” (e.g., caffeine, nicotine, morphine, quinine). Most have complex chemical structures of multiple ring systems. They have diverse, important physiological effects on humans and other animals, but their functions in the plants that produce them are poorly understood.
This particular variety grows ferile in all fields I've explored.
About 10 years ago or so a woman was reported to of been giving this herb (BellaDonna) to her hubby who eventually died. They found out 2 years later that she had been poisoining him. :holysheep:
If this stuff aint too boring, I'd like to do nettle and St-John's Wart next. They both grow here like nobody's business!
First off there's no doubt in my mind that the animals don't 'feed or frolic' in areas where there are ferrous minerals. The leaching of the zinc, copper......or any of the radio-active type minerals are more apparent to them than to us.
I've been writing short stories about my adventures in the bush, which don't include 'My Secret Garden'.
My scribblings are all about the local medicinal herbs that grow in my zone and the correlation between them, the trees and the minerals present.
Bella Donna (Evening Night Shade)
Tall, bushy, herbaceous plant, the deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), of the nightshade family; also, the crude drug consisting of its dried leaves or roots.
It has dull green leaves, violet or greenish flowers, shiny black berries about the size of cherries, and a large, tapering root. Belladonna is highly poisonous and is cultivated for medicinal substances (alkaloids) that are derived from the crude drug and used in sedatives, stimulants, and antispasmodics. Because of toxicity and undesirable side effects, these substances are being replaced by synthetic drugs.
Alkaloids are amines, so their names usually end in “ine” (e.g., caffeine, nicotine, morphine, quinine). Most have complex chemical structures of multiple ring systems. They have diverse, important physiological effects on humans and other animals, but their functions in the plants that produce them are poorly understood.
This particular variety grows ferile in all fields I've explored.
About 10 years ago or so a woman was reported to of been giving this herb (BellaDonna) to her hubby who eventually died. They found out 2 years later that she had been poisoining him. :holysheep:
If this stuff aint too boring, I'd like to do nettle and St-John's Wart next. They both grow here like nobody's business!