Muddy River 05/08/09, 6:20 p.m.

[urbpan]

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[corivax.livejournal.com]

That first pictures looks like it could have been taken of eelgrass under the water, or something. It took me a moment to realize all those bright motes weren't bubble. :)

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

"dappled light"?

[weofodthignen]

Reeds, huh ... I can't get it straight in my head that they look like tall grass, not like bulrushes. Why does Wikipedia have them in the categories "herbal and fungal hallucinogens" and "Psychedelic tryptamine carriers"? Does one have to smoke the seeds or can one get high by chewing the stems?

M

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I didn't know what a bulrush was until I looked it up just now, and it appears to refer to a few kinds of sedge and to baby Moses' papyrus basket. Sedges are pretty similar to grasses, but phragmites is definitely a grass.

According to the wikipedia article on phragmites, "Rhizomes of the plant are rich in N,N-DMT alkaloids," which I've never heard before. I suspect it's wiki-bunk, or else the fens would be full of college kids digging up the reeds' roots and smoking them.

[weofodthignen]

I had to actually search the Wikipedia article to find that sentence on the rhizomes--an index that I needed to go.to.bed. So I didn't do any further looking :-)

But I hadn't realized, or had forgotten, that bulrushes are apparently another of those differences between Englishes. Typha. Apparently called cattails in the US.

M