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That flower is a clone. Every red spider lily in the American South traces back to three bulbs a US Navy officer named William Roberts brought home from Japan in 1854. His sister-in-law planted them in North Carolina. They have been copying themselves ever since. The Japanese version of this plant cannot make seeds. It only reproduces by making copies of itself underground. A bulb splits in two. Those two split into four. Over the years, one bulb becomes a whole patch of identical flowers. Every red spider lily in the American South is part of one giant, slow-motion copy machine that started with Roberts' three bulbs. Roberts came home with them after a treaty opened Japan to American trade. He was a botany enthusiast and sailed with Commodore Matthew Perry. The bulbs sat quietly in the soil for years. They did not flower until the Civil War. Since then, they have been handed from one gardener to the next, one bulb at a time. The bulb underground is poisonous. It carries a chemical called lycorine. A mouse that bites into it gets violently sick, and a big enough bite can kill it. The poison is why people grew the plant in the first place. Japanese farmers have been planting it around their rice fields and houses for over a thousand years because the bulbs keep rats and moles out of the grain. You are looking at natural pest control that has been running since before the printing press was invented. The same bulb also carries a chemical called galantamine. Galantamine is the active ingredient in two FDA-approved drugs for Alzheimer's disease. The FDA approved the first one, Razadyne, in 2001. A follow-up called Zunveyl was approved in 2024. China has entire farms growing red spider lilies just to pull that chemical out and turn it into medicine. The same bulb that will kill a rat is the source of a molecule that helps an 80-year-old remember their grandchildren's names. In the American South, these flowers almost always show up around old homesteads. Since the plant only spreads by bulbs splitting, a patch marks where somebody once lived and gardened. You might be looking at the last trace of a house that burned down in 1930, or a grandmother's flower bed from sixty years ago. So leave it where it is. Don't dig up the bulb, and don't let pets chew the long green leaves that come up after the flower dies in the fall. When the next good rain hits, more will probably pop up out of nowhere, on bare stems with no leaves. That is the flower doing what it has done since the 1850s, one bulb at a time.

星のカービィのBGMに似てるって言われる曲の作り方 ・4つ打ちキック ・オクターブ奏法のベース ・シンプルなコード進行 ・途中で短3度上転調 ・ズンチャッズンチャッのリズムのアコギとピアノ ・アコーディオンとかリコーダーでかわいい感じのメロディ

@fuyuto64 3 Alabama Cities: Orange Beach, Huntsville, and Selma.

「そういえば、アメリカ合衆国の州についてよくよく考えたことがない」と思って自分の中の印象や知ってる事を地図に当てはめてみた。ものすごく正直に。 東海岸の方は大きさばらばら過ぎるので別で作る オクラホマ州の出っ張ってるところって何なの？

a goose impressed the other geese by chasing my friend away

メインメロディーの最後の音を伸ばしている間にカウンターメロディーをアルペジオで弾くと、2本のギターが折り重なるような効果が出せます

This is the most insane “hurdy-gurdy” you’ll ever see 🔥🎶 Danael turns a spinning kebab/gyro machine into a full-on experimental instrument — bowing the hot rotating spit with a violin bow to create those deep, droning, symphonic tones. Pure genius-level creativity discovered by accident at the gyro shop! 21st-century hurdy-gurdy vibes for real. #HurdyGurdy

短いけど 動画

#WildHonkyTonk 4th 歌に踊りに バーベキューに馬 天気も良くて イイ雰囲気だったよ

今日のカリンバ聴いてください。 奇数小節のループを作ってみました。 最近この人力コーラスエフェクトに夢中ですね。 ※全部カリンバの音です。

軽音部の夏祭り！『其一』 | Jess！ #pixiv pixiv.net/artworks/14347…

if you captioned this gif “when you nut but she keep suckin” in 2015 you probably would’ve gotten on ellen

柱を捨ててスケボーに転向した桃白白

The K-On movie making it onto Criterion is funny. For years K-On was often cited as being everything wrong with anime. K-On was the reason why studios couldn't get more "Mature" productions off the ground, it was why anime like Monster or Black Lagoon weren't more common.

Pass the National Constitutional Carry Act.

混ぜたら面白いんじゃないかなって思って作った

@eevee you're severely brainwashed

@herbMASTERjames please try reading the other hundred replies first thanks