The Chinese folk lore praises their agriculture god, 神農, who discovered many precious Chinese medicine by eating hundreds of wild plants himself. Don't learn from him in Taiwan; because if you do, before you discover anything new, you might be dead.
In the wild of Taiwanese mountain, many plants look innocent in the eyes are actually poisonous. Photos show: mountain Taro 山竽, (Colocasia konishii ); witch taro 姑婆芋, (Alocasia odora (Roxb.) C. Koch); biting cat 咬人貓, (Urtica thunbergiana Sieb.& Zucc.) and Ban-To-Lo 晏陀羅. All of them are poisonous. The mountain taro is the least poisonous; and is edible. (The third in the picture.) Not for the others, especially for Ban-To-Lo, 晏陀羅.
Poisoned by Ban-To-Lo 晏陀羅 (The first picture with flowers.) is like poisoned by the cyanide. You are guaranteed to die and to meet the legendary god, 神農 in your next life. If your skin touches the leaves of the biting cat, 咬人貓 (The second photo.) you will feel like to be bitten by 'hundred mosquito' not by single one mosquito. I don't know the impacts of being poisoned by the witch taro, 姑婆芋 (The last photo.). One advice is that you do not mess around with anything having a name of witch.
Can you tell the difference between the mountain taro (second photo) and witch taro (the last photo)?
No comments:
Post a Comment