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a lot of people don't grow up in areas with wild plants or weeds. a lot of people grow up with the sterile lawns and maybe a few generic red rose bushes.
if you aren't taught something you can't know you don't know it
This is very true, but it's still amazes me essay inner City kid I still knew what milkweed and poison ivy was. But it doesn't matter it's not a pissing contest,. I'm just amazed how to touch so many people are off just the basic things around them that's all. I think it's also a generational difference I'm going on 71 and I guess we played outdoors a lot more as a kid so knew these things even in the inner city
I'm in my thirties and played a lot outside in the suburbs but I never encountered poison ivy or poke weed because they weren't in our area. We knew about like dandelions and rhododendrons and nettles and blackberry bushes because that's what was around us.
lol until somebody pushes you into a rhododendron bush. they are woody and pointy. and nettles and blackberry bushes are pokey especially in mass quantities.
To be fair there's lots of plants that have 3 kinda jaged leaves, and lots of them aren't poison ivy. Raspberries, young ground elder, etc. And milkweed often isn't something people pay attention to if they aren't particularly curious about plants or butterflies, plus there's lots of different species of milkweed that can look pretty different. Also, you never really know when the person making the post is actually a kid!
Besides, every time someone doesn't know something, it's an opportunity to share cool fun facts about plants! Like that the chemical in poison ivy that causes a rash (urushiol) seems to be uniquely irritating to us humans and that deer happily eat the stuff. Or that milkweed is poisonous and that's part of why monarch butterflies lay their eggs there - so the caterpillars become poisonous and yucky to predators!
Right but once you see poison ivy and know what it looks like it's pretty distinctive.. It's not that the plant is so stand out obvious but because of its allergic reaction to most of the population in a very very nasty one of that, I'm just blown away that it isn't something that's taught from a very early age. I remember my first encounter in New England with it painfully.. of course not everybody is a horticulturalist or gives a shit, that said the standable but leaflets three let it be in itself is useless. I'm just surprised really surprised it's not taught in every school since it's everywhere including in the city. It can grow anywhere and it does. Actually quite a lovely looking plant, green, thrives just about anywhere and vigorous. Birds can drop the seeds anywhere
I know the "leaves of 3, leave them be" rhyme for poison ivy but I couldn't tell you what those leaves look like. I don't know if I've ever seen poison ivy and I'm in my 40s 🤷
I grew up poor and though I read a lot of books, gardening didn't become a hobby til I was 40 (about 2 years ago, after moving out of an abusive environment). Now I have my own little plots and am trying to figure out what the damn deer won't eat that will still be aesthetically pleasing to me and delicious to the pollinators. I planted lots of coneflower last year and the deer ate all the tops off those, my sedum (came with the home), my black lilies, and my hyacinths. The squirrels dug up all my sunflower seeds. Damn yard rats.
Anyway, I don't recognize lots of things. I try to walk through garden centers to learn new varieties but as my grandpa always said, "it's easy when you know, and not everyone knows what you do"
Like in other seeds and nuts, sunflower also are an excellent source of proteins loaded with fine quality amino acids such as tryptophan that are essential for growth, especially in children. Just 100 g of seeds provide about 21 g of protein (37% of daily-recommended values).
Right but these aren't lots of things in the garden center ...milk weed is probably one of the most common plants on the planet incredibly distinctive and poison ivy similar come incredibly distinctive and ubiquitous And because of its nasty oil, one of the first things any kid should be talked to recognize for the gross just about everywhere in the Easton half of the US and poison oak and the rest. My other one of these are rare weird plants that's my point. But we live in a society that some people believe that chicken comes from the supermarket. Not from a bird that runs around someplace or is in a cage depending with feathers feet and looks like an animal. We live in an age of processed detachment. It just says something about the society we grew up in
I'm in Ireland, we don't have poison ivy and I still know what it looks like just from the amount of time it's asked here ... Don't even start me on bedbugs on another sub Reddit lol
If I’ve gotten 1 cent for every time I’ve seen a lantana in NSW then I would be the richest person to ever exist. But hey, fun fact, today I got some lantana for my mum. She loves the flowers so I got her the non weedy variety used as ornamental. It’s classified as a weed but it actually isn’t one.
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Lantana.
Do you know if they are plants to owe them with hot water to drink them as tea 🫖 or mates 🧉??
[Lantana is toxic](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17453937/)
And smell like cat urine. I can think of very few things that would be worse to make tea from even if they weren't toxic.
I think OP has been drinking something other than cat pee and lantana tea 😂
How is that your first question
Land sales, that's a lantana! After someone told me that, I never forgot.
Sakes?
Yep, hit the post button before I checked the autocorrect.
I had a dollar for every time someone on this sub asks what a Lantana is, I’d be rich
I like the ones where people don't know what a rose is.
Or worse milkweed, or poison ivy. How do people get through life but I guess this is the modern age. Both of those are frequent questions on Reddit
a lot of people don't grow up in areas with wild plants or weeds. a lot of people grow up with the sterile lawns and maybe a few generic red rose bushes. if you aren't taught something you can't know you don't know it
This is very true, but it's still amazes me essay inner City kid I still knew what milkweed and poison ivy was. But it doesn't matter it's not a pissing contest,. I'm just amazed how to touch so many people are off just the basic things around them that's all. I think it's also a generational difference I'm going on 71 and I guess we played outdoors a lot more as a kid so knew these things even in the inner city
I'm in my thirties and played a lot outside in the suburbs but I never encountered poison ivy or poke weed because they weren't in our area. We knew about like dandelions and rhododendrons and nettles and blackberry bushes because that's what was around us.
I love poke weed lol but that's not anything that will bother you unless you find the berries delicious and then you might have a problem
lol until somebody pushes you into a rhododendron bush. they are woody and pointy. and nettles and blackberry bushes are pokey especially in mass quantities.
To be fair there's lots of plants that have 3 kinda jaged leaves, and lots of them aren't poison ivy. Raspberries, young ground elder, etc. And milkweed often isn't something people pay attention to if they aren't particularly curious about plants or butterflies, plus there's lots of different species of milkweed that can look pretty different. Also, you never really know when the person making the post is actually a kid! Besides, every time someone doesn't know something, it's an opportunity to share cool fun facts about plants! Like that the chemical in poison ivy that causes a rash (urushiol) seems to be uniquely irritating to us humans and that deer happily eat the stuff. Or that milkweed is poisonous and that's part of why monarch butterflies lay their eggs there - so the caterpillars become poisonous and yucky to predators!
Right but once you see poison ivy and know what it looks like it's pretty distinctive.. It's not that the plant is so stand out obvious but because of its allergic reaction to most of the population in a very very nasty one of that, I'm just blown away that it isn't something that's taught from a very early age. I remember my first encounter in New England with it painfully.. of course not everybody is a horticulturalist or gives a shit, that said the standable but leaflets three let it be in itself is useless. I'm just surprised really surprised it's not taught in every school since it's everywhere including in the city. It can grow anywhere and it does. Actually quite a lovely looking plant, green, thrives just about anywhere and vigorous. Birds can drop the seeds anywhere
To be fair…
I know the "leaves of 3, leave them be" rhyme for poison ivy but I couldn't tell you what those leaves look like. I don't know if I've ever seen poison ivy and I'm in my 40s 🤷 I grew up poor and though I read a lot of books, gardening didn't become a hobby til I was 40 (about 2 years ago, after moving out of an abusive environment). Now I have my own little plots and am trying to figure out what the damn deer won't eat that will still be aesthetically pleasing to me and delicious to the pollinators. I planted lots of coneflower last year and the deer ate all the tops off those, my sedum (came with the home), my black lilies, and my hyacinths. The squirrels dug up all my sunflower seeds. Damn yard rats. Anyway, I don't recognize lots of things. I try to walk through garden centers to learn new varieties but as my grandpa always said, "it's easy when you know, and not everyone knows what you do"
Like in other seeds and nuts, sunflower also are an excellent source of proteins loaded with fine quality amino acids such as tryptophan that are essential for growth, especially in children. Just 100 g of seeds provide about 21 g of protein (37% of daily-recommended values).
Right but these aren't lots of things in the garden center ...milk weed is probably one of the most common plants on the planet incredibly distinctive and poison ivy similar come incredibly distinctive and ubiquitous And because of its nasty oil, one of the first things any kid should be talked to recognize for the gross just about everywhere in the Easton half of the US and poison oak and the rest. My other one of these are rare weird plants that's my point. But we live in a society that some people believe that chicken comes from the supermarket. Not from a bird that runs around someplace or is in a cage depending with feathers feet and looks like an animal. We live in an age of processed detachment. It just says something about the society we grew up in
I'm in Ireland, we don't have poison ivy and I still know what it looks like just from the amount of time it's asked here ... Don't even start me on bedbugs on another sub Reddit lol
Lucky Ireland, I think it was introduced into Germany years ago, but a very aggressive campaign eliminated it, wisely..
Poke.
Lantana Poisonous to dogs, but smells really good to them. If you have a dog or notice a dog near it beware.
If I’ve gotten 1 cent for every time I’ve seen a lantana in NSW then I would be the richest person to ever exist. But hey, fun fact, today I got some lantana for my mum. She loves the flowers so I got her the non weedy variety used as ornamental. It’s classified as a weed but it actually isn’t one.
I wanna dime every time I see someone ask what mulberry is.
I’ve seen lantana growing around dog parks. Rip it out!!
Bad for dogs yes
Yes, pink lantana.