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Everyone on earth takes a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press? BE HONEST.

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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.