[lit-ideas] Re: Manly Flowers

  • From: david savory <dsavory@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 07:23:05 -0800

>
>  >> But David, surely the manliest flower is the thistle, no?
>>
>  All the little pricks?

The cactus is more manly than the thistle and
Caralluma is even more manly than the cactus-
it attracts pollinators with the smell of rotting meat.
What could be more manly than that? (Well maybe
stinkhorns, with their reeking phalli...)

David Savory
Vancouver
dsavory@xxxxxxxxx
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