4 okt 2005 kl. 00.54 skrev Chris:
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:> Per Ofverbeck -
Nice flower but is it any use? At one time the philosophers
thought that
all plants were meant by God to be of some value to Man and so a
use was
sought. I'm sure primitive man, whose father was a chimpanzee, tasted
everything in sight to see what it would do, just like dad! Then
he told
his brothers and sisters in the newfangled trick called talking.
So science
was born and now we have the New English Herbalist.
,,,
As a matter of fact, like many orchids, this one was once believed to
be an aphrodisiac ("Orchis" means "testicle" in Greek, and it is
their root bulbs that igave them that name).
Today, I don´t think many people believe in it; most orchids are
protected species here, so it would be illegal to try...;->
This one is Plathanthera Bifolia, and is actually rather common in
Sweden.
Per Öfverbeck
http://foto.ofverbeck.se
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