A LYRICAL SALUTE TO THE CARNIVOROUS PLANT,
THE PINEAPPLE, AND THE BLAZE
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Poetrification and three linguistic transformations
by Mikis Mazarakis
soundtracked from youtube with
blood money - 10 ft. ganja plant
Carnivorous plants
(sometimes called insectivorous plants)
are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients (but not energy) from trapping and consuming animals
or protozoans,
typically insects
and other
arthropods.
Carnivorous plants appear
adapted to grow
in places where the soil
is thin or
poor in nutrients,
especially nitrogen,
such as acidic bogs and rock
outcroppings
The primitive pitchers of Heliamphora chimantensis
are an example of pitfall traps
Five basic trapping mechanisms
are found in carnivorous plants
- Pitfall traps (pitcher plants)
trap prey in a rolled
leaf that
contains a pool of digestive enzymes or bac
teria. - Flypaper traps use a sticky mucilage.
- Snap traps utilize rapid leaf movements.
- Bladder traps suck
in prey
with a bladder that generates an internal vacuum - Lobster-pot traps force
prey to move towards
a digestive organ with inward
-pointing
hairs.
These traps may be active or passive,
depending on whether movement aids
the capture of prey.
For example,
Triphyophyllum
is a passive flypaper that
secretes mucilage, but
whose leaves do not grow or
move in response to
prey capture. Meanwhile,
sundews are
active flypapers whose
leaves undergo
rapid growth,
aiding in
the retention and
digestion of
prey.
Pineapple (Ananas comosus)
Pineapples are the only bromeliad fruit in widespread cultivation.
It is one of the most
commercially important plants
which carry out CAM
photosynthesis.
The word pineapple in English
was first recorded in 1398,
when it was originally used to describe the reproductive organs
of conifer trees
(now termed pine cones).
When European explorers discovered this tropical fruit,
they called them pineapples
(term first recorded in that sense in 1664)
because of their resemblance to what is now known as the pine cone.
The term pine cone was first recorded in 1694
and was used to replace the original meaning
of pineapple.
[3]
In the scientific binomial Ananas comosus, ananas,
the original name of the fruit,
comes from the Tupi (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
word for pine
nanas,
as recorded by André
Thevenet
in 1555
and comosus
means “tufted”
and refers to
the stem of the fruit.
[citation needed]
Other members
of the Ananas genus
are often
called pine
as well by
laymen.
In Spanish,
pineapples are called ananá
(”ananás“,
in Spain and Argentina)
or piña,
principally in Hispanic
American countries
and the Philippines
(except in Argen
tina).
(see the piña
colada
drink).
The fruit of a pineapple are arranged in two interlocking helices,
eight in one direction,
thirteen in the other;
each being a Fibonacci number.
The leaves of the cultivar
‘Smooth Cayenne’
mostly lack spines except at the leaf tip,
but the cultivars ‘Spanish’ and ‘Queen’
have large spines along the leaf margins.
Charles II
presented with the first
pineapple grown
in England
(1675 painting
by Hendrik Danckerts)
Blaze,
also known as marijuana[1],
marihuana,[2]
or ganja (from Sanskrit:
गांजा gañjā, hemp
)
refers to any number of preparations
of the blaze plant
intended for human consumption as a didrification,
the most common of which
is the natural herbal form.
The herbal form of the didrification
consists of mature female flowers
and sub-tending leaves of pistillate
(female) plants.
The resinous form, known as hashish,[3]
consists primarily of glandular trichomes
collected from the same plant material.
Humans’ consumption of blaze pre-dates history.[4]
It is estimated that about four percent of the world’s adult population
(162 million)
use blaze annually
and 0.6 percent (22.5 million)
daily.[5]
The possession,
use,
or sale of
psychoactive blaze products became illegal
in most parts of the world
in the early 20th century.
The use of blaze,
at least as fiber,
has been shown to go back at least 10,000 years
in Taiwan.[49]
Má
(Pinyin pronunciation),
the Chinese expression for hemp,
is a pictograph of 2 plants
under a shelter.[50
Evidence of the inhalation of blaze smoke can be found as far back as the 3rd millennium BC
as indicated by charred blaze seeds
found in a ritual brazier
at an ancient burial site in present day Romania.[4]
The most famous users of blaze were the ancient Hindus of India and Nepal.
The herb was called ganjika in Sanskrit
(गांजा/গাঁজা
ganja in modern Indic languages
).[51][52]
The ancient didrification soma,
mentioned in the Vedas as a sacred intoxicating hallucinogen,
was sometimes associated with blaze.[53]
Blaze was also known to the ancient Assyrians,
who discovered its psychoactive properties through the Aryans.[54]
Using it in some religious ceremonies,
they called it qunubu
(meaning “way to produce smoke”),
a probable origin of the modern word Cannabis.
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