I put some seeds in my native dirt over here in zone 9 Sonoran desert. I’ve actually been trying to grow this for a while now, I’ve planted a lot of seeds but they never grew. My theory is maybe my soil was too well draining? This spot in my backyard gets soaked with water from my garden beds.
TLDR: I planted datura seeds and I’m wondering if this sprout is datura or just a random weed
Someone please tell me there is a light at the end of the tunnel soon. I am on day 6 (7ish cos I “felt” itchy the day before) of finding out that I had gotten into poison oak & I am miserable. On the first day I immediately went to urgent care & got a steroid shot, Prednisone for home & a topical cream. I have been taking it/rubbing it on as prescribed along with rotating between calamine lotion & Cortisone cream. My face got the worst of it for sure (see pics) & is somehow (LUCKILY) healing the fastest but I am not having the same luck on the rest of my body. It is also popping up in new places every day. As of yesterday, I have a huge red rash on my stomach that burns like a horrible sun burn but isn’t blistering & today I am starting to feel itchy & red between my thighs. I believe I have both poison ivy & oak, & have always been highly allergic to ivy but never had oak before. It’s like I literally went swimming in it & all I did was pull some weeds along the fence line of my driveway. Hoping for some relief soon (& I need to go back to work!!)
I have almost never seen these neighbors outside their house. The few times we've gone to knock on their door for various reasons (like kids fundraising) they never answer. They may also be foreign, with a language barrier. What do.
Is there a toxin difference between “wild cherry species” and the “commercial cherry tree saplings and seedlings?”
Hello, I live in the Willamette valley in Oregon. I have sheep and I want to learn more about “wild cherry,” wilted leaf poisoning in livestock. We lost two young lambs simultaneously from an unknown plant toxin. According to the veterinarian, it was an extremely rare occurrence for twin 16 day old lambs to die within an hour of each other without trauma, which leads to a poisoning. There are “wild cherry” trees alongside our fence line, but the species is genetically connected to dispersed commercial cherry trees. My guess is that the lambs may have found and ate sapling leaves.
For miles, our local “wild” cherry trees come from commercial cherry seed droppings due to a “long gone bing cherry farm” in our region. I am trying to understand the toxin difference between the known toxic leaves of “wild cherry tree species” and dispersed commercial “wild cherry trees.” The cherry trees lining our fence do not truly resemble Prunus serotina, virginiana, emarginata, or pensylvanica, but, the commercial cherry tree seedlings appear to revert into a smaller fruited “wild” cherry. Knowing that they have been naturally dispersed by seed over decades, can a bing cherry tree revert back to a true “wild cherry tree?” Could these versions of “wild cherry” convert and carry significant toxins?
In 25 yrs of sheep herding and hundreds of lambings, we have never experienced a sudden unexplainable death of healthy lambs in our flock.
I’d love to talk with a plant toxicologist, or veterinary toxicologist about this.
Thank you.
(Please excuse my taxonomy descriptions. My grad degree is in the arts, not sciences.)
Ive done some looking online but cant tell for the life of me, all these wild carrots look the same. Would appreciate some help confirming, as I have a dog and cant risk him eating any.
If its helpful context, I live in Northeast Texas.
These leaves are huge
I shall try to not make a habit of this, but once in a while I think it’s nice to compare Northern Hemisphere Geraniums with Southern Hemisphere Pelargoniums. Especially when there is a botanical story.
At the weekend I visited a friend’s medieval physic/herb garden.
One plant in flower was a UK native - Geranium sanguineum, or Bloody Cranesbill.
It’s hard to see in the photo but the flowers have red veins giving its Latin name sanguineum (“blood-red”).
But its common name comes from its medical use of treating the “bloody flux” - what we’d now recognise as severe dysentery.
Under the old Doctrine of Signatures, plants resembling a disease or symptom were thought to treat it.
So a “bloody” plant for “bloody” diarrhoea made intuitive sense at the time.
There is some science too:
Bloody cranesbill contains significant amounts of tannins—compounds that:
- Tighten and contract tissues
- Reduce secretions
- Help constrict small blood vessels
In a condition like dysentery, where the bowel is inflamed, bleeding, and producing frequent loose stools, this would:
- Reduce diarrhoea
- Help limit bleeding
- Soothe irritated intestinal lining
It also has weak antimicrobial activity.
But remember this is medieval science - experimentation where doing nothing would be fatal so you might as well try.
Plants are a wonderful source of medicine because nature and evolution have found ways to synthesise chemicals.
But modern medicine is an extension of medieval medicine - researching better and better treatments. Modern herbology and homeopathy arent. Best stick to medically prescribed treatments for things as serious as the bloody flux.
This years new germinated mandrakes, are they too small, what should i do?