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| Swan Plant aka Milkweed |
Weeds. Milkweed. See? Break the stem and milk
comes out.
You’ve got another kind of milkweed over here.
Swan plants.
That’s for the butterflies.
Swan plant is also called milkweed. Asclepias
fruiticosa. There’s heaps of plants in the Asclepias genus.
Asclepias?
After the Greek god of medicine, Asclepius.
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Voice-over
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| They name WEEDS after me? I'm HONORED. |
Something invasive can scarcely be called
“endangered.”
Is “endangered weed” thus an oxymoron?
To developers unsympathetic to biodiversity,
any plant could be a weed.
I propose a new new category to counter the
depredations of human commerce.
“Endangered weeds.”
Milkweeds, a big family, 140 described. Noted
for nectar, butterfly gardening, flowers. They have a surprising number of
human uses too: medicinal, insulation, sweetening, cords, rubber.
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2 comments:
Can someone else rescue the "endangered weed" as well as "endangered species"? There are varieties plants and animals dying out every second. Human being rely on creatures a lot. Herb tea is one of the plant's medicine, it might come from the weed of the milky plant in which bees would like to stay.
All species need rescue at some stage. Help them on their feet or give them food if they're an animal. Help them with water or roots if they're a plant. We can all be helpers. Anytime. Look around, there's always someone or some animal, or some plant in need of some HELP. HTH.
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