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Uses and cultural aspects
The pulp of the fruit is edible, but is seldom used for that purpose. In African medicine the roots are used in the treatment of dysentery and bladder complaints. The hard-shelled fruits are used as snuff boxes. If the fruit are left to dry with the seeds inside they it make amusing rattles for children and are also used as anklets and armlets for dancers to add rhythm when performing.
Wild South Africa
Phalaborwa
Limpopo Province
This is the pretty flower of the indigenous Snuff-box Tree (Oncoba spinosa), so called because snuff boxes were made from its extremely hard-shelled fruit.
As can be seen, the flowers somewhat resemble a fried egg and in Zimbabwe it is called the fried-egg flower.
The sweet-scented white flowers with masses of yellow, overlapping stamens in the centre, attract butterflies and many other insects.
Internet
ODC-Decades
I dug this crock jar up at an old homestead on Manitoulin Island in Canada 4 decades ago.
A lovely looking fungus, you can see where it got it's name from :-)
lots of this around at the moment - I'm off out for a walk soon, making the most of the dryness, rain later and the rest of the week I believe - also thinking of all the poor people who are being battered by Sandy.
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It's snowing again and all I want to do is stay inside and drink coffee. I fashioned myself a little reading nook in the spare bedroom next to the window. I've pretty much been there all day... reading, smoking, indulging in K2, eating leftover Chinese food from last night. yyeeaaa.
I bought Chuck Palahniuk's book, Snuff, yesterday while waiting on the dogs to finish at the groomer's. I highly suggest you pick up a copy.
The fungi seen here are individual fruiting bodies belonging to a communal fruit body called a stroma.
The candle snuff fungus is bioluminescent meaning that it can glow in the dark! This could be either a byproduct of the fungus' metabolism or an adaptation to attract insects at night to help disperse spores which stick to the insect's bodies. However, the glow emitted is very weak and therefore difficult to discern with the naked eye unless conditions are very dark. It can also be seen by using long exposure photographic techniques!
Decided to post the HDR that was used yesterday to produce the vortex image.
Captured on a blustery July evening as the sun was setting.
This old lead mine is known as "Snuff the Wind" so called because it was worked in the 1880s by a Horse Gin or Whin.
Smoke is a pain in the ass..... remind me never to try this again. ;)
Snooted SB600 directly overhead 1/8 (?) power.
On the anniversary of the Battle of Borodino,* 26th August, 1812 old style**
Carved from a single piece of oak, Napoleon, who was partial to a pinch of snuff, stood outside York tobacconists' shops in both Bridge Street and Lendal for 177 years. During World War II he was captured by drunken soldiers and thrown in the River Ouse where he floated downstream and was hauled out at Naburn Lock. He was even known to spend the night in police cells when the tobacconists forgot to take him in. Still indulging his habit in the Merchant Adventurers' Hall.
For six word story.
* From 1 March 1800 to 28 February 1900: 12 days difference between the Julian and Gregorian Calendars
**Battle of Borodino
After a bloody and inconclusive battle at Borodino, (30,000 French and 45,000 Russian casualties) Mikhail Kutuzov’s famous strategic retreat paved the way for Napoleon’s conquest of Moscow. But even as Napoleon enjoyed a well-earned pinch of snuff and toasted his triumph with a glass of vodka, Moscow was burning, Kutusov was plotting revenge and the Russian winter was approaching…
Day 2, April
Daily In
Theme: Vertical
K3II with HD Pentax-DA f/4-5.8 55-300mm
This is a boarded up vertical window in an abandoned Garrett Snuff Mill building.
Processed in LR and Silver Efex
From the archives.
Thanks to Chuck - www.flickr.com/photos/cleerose/ - for making me realize there is an interesting photo in a washed up snuff can.
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Lycoperdon perlatum - Common puffball or Gem-studded puffball or Devil's snuff-box - Vesse-de-loup perlée - FRANCE - Bretagne