the germinator

To be honest I haven't clicked the "tripod" link above and I'm not going to, so I can see that there is a good chance I have taken the above posts out of context, if so I am sorry, but if not, I will never say sorry.. Yeah Will did emit a very confused vibe, not everyone is the same, but some of us got him & he got some of us.. So, if I have misconstrue the above due to my ignorance, I'm sorry. If I got it right before then, Fuckin' morons!

So, to ridicule someone after their death is cool if they don't say thanks in life, eh? Fuckin' morons!

If I ever had a problem with someone and wasn't man enough to speak up while they were alive, I certainly would hold my tongue once they'd died.. Maybe Gom praised the work done for him as much as it deserved???

Very sad indeed... May he rest in peace.

mr pink, what can ya' say about mr pink, I think he already summed that up in his post.. Will Rekowski was a good man, pink, some of us aren't as nice as him, get it!!

Thanks man. I kinda' remember but it's all a little hazy I do remember however, that EVERYONE there was cool as cool, best meet I've been to. I hafta' stop missin' 'em.. Cheers to all who were there.

I don't remember getting there, I have a vague recollection of being there, and then it was the next day... What a ripper!!!

Cool, that smoking ritual and sacred site must have been cool, I've heard of E ellipticum being referred to as "the tree of life" by some northern tribes..

200 years ago some ass-clowns were 20 years into a very successful Hostage siege here, took whatever they wanted and eradicated anything different to their stupid fucked up complexes. The original keepers of this land knew all there is to know, over 50,000 years of ethnobotanical research, then along comes global village, massacre's as many people as possible before asking those who are left for special knowledge, good on the real Australians for not bucklin' like so many indigeonous peoples overseas have! I love how they'd pick bad food and pretend to eat it in front of starving maniacs.. The settler's lived on Koori meat for the first 10 odd years, stole heads of warriors, ignored Taboos, fuck 'em, if they knew the worth of the knowledge in them hills and respected other people's human rights, then we'd know about all the plants by now but it'd prolly be in rememberance of how much cool shit the government has denied us... Research is the only way, misinfo on sp varieties etc, all that trickery is cool imo

Just a long shot but it might be Psychotria daphneoides, or maybe a Tabernaemontana sp. The leaves on my Splityard Creek plants numb the tongue just as much as any other sp I've chewed and I'm guessing E subcapricornicum will numb ya' tongue at least a little.

Cooktown Kerosine Tree, I'll pay your price for some seed ;-)

I reckon Tasmania would be the place for native Ephedra sp, and the southern coast of the mainland. They don't mind salt, love the cold etc.. It's a big-ass country with only 200 odd years of botanical history, it already supported over 50,000 years worth of curious shamans, clever men who's magic really works because they know what they are doin', they know the land and her vegetation, took 'em 50,000 years, all of the Australian ethnobotanical information (50,000 years worth) was erased when the clever men were tracked. Now it is largely up to us to bio-assay most of the plants in Australia, since we can't trust anyone who we can hear, & we hafta' document & report our findings. IMHO there are plenty of southern species of Ephedra, as well as a few hundred Australian Erythroxylum sp. So much work to be done here...

Hmm, what leads you to believe these are Erythroxylum sp, has someone positively ID-ed them as E subcapricornicum (fingers are crossed ;=) ) I really hope you have an E sp there, it's just that they don't look anything like any of the Erythroxylum sp's I have seen. The bark gives most E sp up, it's coarse/wirey and usually very red/brown, the new tips on most sp uncurl 1 leaf at a time, they don't open in pairs like a lot of plants, rather they alternate. The green wood usually burns. Wow, I would love a variegated variety :^) The plants in the pics look like fruit trees or night blooming jesamine. Look between from the 23rd to 28th southern parallels, along creeks and amongst thick scrub, look west of the gold coast. Best of luck... BTW samples have been taken from 33 plants positively identified as E subcapricornicum, the Australian Herbariums have it.

Everyone interprets those words differently, when people start pushing their interpretation on others and saying it's THE right way, we end up with a bunch of mindless sheep believing impossible fairy-tales, don't we. You should think for yourself Baf. So, you can threaten me (passive aggression is still aggression) with violence and when I try to accept your invitation you say I'm an internet tough-guy? Well move over Hypocritis... Like I said before, you're a fuckin' knob mate!

Oops, I'll try to be more sneaky and passive aggressive in future, that seems to be accepted.