Basiliscus galeritus
Un basilisco de cabeza roja juvenil
A juvenile Western Basilisk
DHATURA and DUTRA (Datura metel) are the common names in India for an important Old World species of Datura.
The narcotic properties of this purple-flowered member of the deadly nightshade family, Solanaceae, have been known and valued in India since prehistory. The plant has a long history in other countries as well. Some writers have credited it with being responsible for the intoxicating smoke associated with the Oracle of Delphi. Early Chinese writings report an hallucinogen that has been identified with this species. And it is undoubtedly the plant that Avicenna, the Arabian physician, mentioned under the name jouzmathel in the 11th century. Its use as an aphrodisiac in the East Indies was recorded in 1578. The plant was held sacred in China, where people believed that when Buddha preached, heaven sprinkled the plant with dew.
Nevertheless, the utilization of Datura preparations in Asia entailed much less ritual than in the New World. In many parts of Asia, even today, seeds of Datura are often mixed with food and tobacco for illicit use, especially by thieves for stupefying victims, who may remain seriously intoxicated for several days.
Datura metel is commonly mixed with cannabis and smoked in Asia to this day. Leaves of a white-flowered form of the plant (considered by some botanists to be a distinct species, D. fastuosa) are smoked with cannabis or tobacco in many parts of Africa and Asia.
The plant contains highly toxic alkaloids, the principal one being scopolamine. This hallucinogen is present in heaviest concentrations in the leaves and seeds. Scopolamine is found also in the New World species of Datura (pp. 142-147). Datura ferox, a related Old World species, not so widespread in Asia, is also valued for its narcotic and medicinal properties.
Minmi.
Small ankylosaurian dinosaurs, which grew to about 2 metres long. Fossilised stomach contents of one specimen showed it finely chewed fibrous plant material and seeds with its beaked mouth and teeth, being able to hold the food with cheeks- an adaptation that proved to be very successful (as with the Hadrosaurids and Ceratopsians).
irritablereddemo replied to your post: shut up you, I would like to keep the gut fetish out of the light. Are you offering your legs?what about you? always waiting and loosing every thing you really care about because you can’t make a move without planning?oh I think I struck a nerve! do tell why you don’t want anyone to know about the guts? Do you like to pretend that you are normal a human?
I like to receive some affection from people I trust, I would like to keep the gut thing hushed up because I don’t wish to loose what little I have already. I have learned that people who say they are ‘accepting’ are not in the grand scheme.
What about that man called sergie or siggie, the one you lost?
We are not talking about him.
Continue my friend hiding in the dark I will enjoy watching everything you have fall apart.
Then you have failed, everything has already fallen, I am making do with the rubble and it is more pleasing then before.
-pulls out a aged scrap of paper-
‘Shall I compare thee….’
You rat! :Crux snatches the paper away and conceals it under his coat, he sneers at Rasturn for a while before all traces of rage vanish.:
I had been wondering were that had gotten to, he was a war buddy. that is all you need to know. Enjoy your rubble.
irritablereddemo replied to your post: shut up you, I would like to keep the gut fetish out of the light. Are you offering your legs?what about you? always waiting and loosing every thing you really care about because you can’t make a move without planning?oh I think I struck a nerve! do tell why you don’t want anyone to know about the guts? Do you like to pretend that you are normal a human?
I like to receive some affection from people I trust, I would like to keep the gut thing hushed up because I don’t wish to loose what little I have already. I have learned that people who say they are ‘accepting’ are not in the grand scheme.
What about that man called sergie or siggie, the one you lost?
We are not talking about him.
Continue my friend hiding in the dark I will enjoy watching everything you have fall apart.
irritablereddemo replied to your post: shut up you, I would like to keep the gut fetish out of the light. Are you offering your legs?
what about you? always waiting and loosing every thing you really care about because you can’t make a move without planning?
oh I think I struck a nerve! do tell why you don’t want anyone to know about the guts? Do you like to pretend that you are normal a human?
shut up you, I would like to keep the gut fetish out of the light. Are you offering your legs?
I’m sure everyone already knows about that interesting fetish, do they know why you hug though? to get close to that organ.
I like pretending to be you it is so easy, some food and look I’m hard, then I’ll sit and struggle to reach orgasm. What fun!
![compendium-of-beasts:
Hermit Crabs. ([189-?])
via NYPL
ironic chibiz this came up in my queue, they are most riveting pets //lies](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m36595MaAu1rqs7fyo1_1280.jpg)
Hermit Crabs. ([189-?])
via NYPL
ironic chibiz this came up in my queue, they are most riveting pets //lies
flasd: Enzymes, circuits: Looks like a printed circuit board, but actually a ‘Schematic overview of Salmonella metabolism during infection’, from the lab of Dirk Bumann. ‘Enzymes with detectable in vivo expression (yellow) and enzymes with experimentally determined relevance for virulence (red, essential; orange, contributing; blue, dispensable) are shown.’
