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A travel-blog for Southeast Asia, minus all the finding higher truth stuff.
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- The First Post of the New Centennium
- For Sale on the Dried Food Street
- A Charlie Cone Christmas
- Flower Signage: Long-Leaved Sterculia
- Please Do Not Fall Off Cliffs
- Free Hong Kong: Chrysanthemum Show
- McPie a la McMode
- Flower Signage: Pond Spice
- Free Hong Kong: Hong Kong Park
- Flower Signage: Long-Flowered Ehretia
- The Peak
- The Best Latte Of Our Trip
- Free Hong Kong: Chinese Instrumental Concert
- Hair Salon Engrish
- First Days in Hong Kong
- Mind Your Edibles Part 2: Sign Engrish
- Arrival in Hong Kong
- Let's all have a hot air balloon chase!
- Chiang Mai: Wats, Wats, Wats
- Ian Ate Rodents
- Cooking Class
- Mae Sai
- Pak Ou Caves
- Tat Kuang Si Waterfall
- Mind Your Edibles Part 1: Rat Soup?
- Luang Prabang
- Key difference between US and Thai dentistry
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2 comments:
Those seeds look hallucinogenic. Do not let anyone talk you into eating strange seeds. But you know that, don't you?
roubeta
Sterculia seeds aren't really poisonous, and most species are edible in smallish quantities. Overdo it and they can cause some digestive distress, though.
There are many species of Sterculia in the wet and dry tropics of the world, but the type species, Sterculia foetida, gave the genus its name. The flowers smell very convincingly like cow dung, which is very attractive to the flies that pollinate them.
Sterculius was the Roman god of dung, hence Sterculia, and the family Sterculiaceae.
One of the Sterculiaceae family members I grow, Firmiana colorata, makes a very convincing broken sewer pipe smell when the new foliage is coming in. Very concincing.
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