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  1. Posted

    15 hours ago, Glaukus said:

    Fucking chickens used to eat all my super hot chillies. They have zero pain and taste receptors lol.

    Birds don't in general. In north America it's common to chop up superhot chillies to mix through bird seed so squirels don't eat the mix.

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  3. Posted · Edited by Freakosystem
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    A struggling materialist at heart because my head is where I think.
    Sally offered me her hand and walked me to the brink.
    Intense interest bartering with my sanity.
    Can I let go and still land right where I plan to be?
    "There is no landing" she explains "there is no floor,
    There is no falling. Through space you only soar.
    No left, no right, no up, down, front or back,
    No matter, time or energy no you or I infact"
    She was right and gone and so was I or who I thought I was.
    And everything was gone for good just because... because.
    Of course I'm back. I never left. It was all inside my head.
    But then again so is everything I've ever thought or ever said.
    I'm profoundly unchanged in materialistic ways.

    The particles will be gone within a mere matter of days.

    Long after I experienced those feelings; so intense,

    But forever I have changed in an immeasurable sense.

     

     

     

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  5. Posted

    The new growth covered with a viscous resin is supposed to be chewed for a stimulant effect. I've never managed to figure out which subspecies is preferred. There is apparently a significant cyanide content in leaves and they are possibly carcinogenic. All I've heard is word of mouth with no scientific backing or word from our first nation people so I've never been game to try.

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  6. Posted

    On 27/04/2020 at 11:59 PM, Ypsilophora said:

    Haven't been able to get any A. obtusifolia seed yet, definitely still looking!

    Flick me a pm with your address and I'll send some out.

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    Some of those appear to be Leratiomyces ceres. Divide them into two groups; red vs golden caps. Now check the gill colour. Do the red capped ones have white gills? If so they are L. ceres.

     

    It's best to wait until the caps open and spore is produced to ensure all the characters for identification are present.

     

    I would advise you do not consume any of these that do not stain blue.

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  8. Posted · Edited by Freakosystem

    Hi all,

     

    Wondering if anybody knows the reason for SD's low fertility. Is it pre or post zygotic? Does it produce viable pollen? Has it played with itself so much it's gone blind?

     

    It's approaching flowering time so it could be time to rule out some of the options and home in on what might be the driver of it's reluctance to self pollinate/fertilise as well as understand whether there is outcrossing or hybridisation potential.

     

    If anybody is aware of any literature on the driver of infertility in this species, I'd love to know.

     

    Cheers,

    Freako

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    Fire frequencies could be responsible for the lack of it in spots that were recently burnt. Could be something else also. Always difficult to say.

     

    Acacia spp. Do regularly germinate by roads without fire. The physical abrasion of seed, the high amounts of light due to the cleared trees and the regular pooling and drying of water roadside contribute to faster seed coat decay allowing for germination. I'd still suggest an abundance of similarly aged Acacia spp. is likely the result of fire though. Perhaps they're particularly slow growing at that locality.

     

    Did you end up getting any Acacia obtusifolia seed? Are you still looking?

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    19 hours ago, Ypsilophora said:

    Yeah, would love to get some obtusi's going, plenty around in the bush... but never found one large enough for seed... just hundreds of little sucker type things, it's pretty odd, dunno if it's normal or not though (the lack of mature age individuals).

    They're mostly fire ephemerals. An abundance of young fire sensitive species generally means the area was burnt one, two or three seasons ago. Growth rates depend on a lot of factors including temps, altitude, soil nutrition, wind sun and snow exposure, rainfall etc. but they're generally very fast growing so you may see seed in summer.

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    I realise I'm pointing out the problem and not contributing a useful reply but it seems people say things with terms that aren't unique to trip sitting such as "make sure you have somebody there with you". There's no specific word to search in that string. Can you search for a string of words?

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    No worries. Just to be clear, I don't think it's the species in the link specifically but maybe one of the species listed on thr panelon the left hand side of that page. It could be worth clicking on some to compare. Good luck!

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