#fish mint

[kohanakonohana]

二枚目のショールをUPしました。

The second shawl is listed on my store.

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経糸に生糸、緯糸に紬糸、普段織っている着物と同じ素材を用い、緩めに織ったショールです。緯糸は藍と十薬（ドクダミ）のぼかし染めを使ったグラデーション。端から15㎝ほどにシードビーズを織り込みました。色ははっきり分かれるのではなく、混織合うように織ってあります。境目がはっきり線引きで

[hidewaku]

森の散歩道に蕺草…百人一首のお坊さん

[falseandrealultravival]

Herbicides that even Fish Mint can't beat (Essay)

Killed Fish mints

Fish mint is a tough plant. I heard that when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and when Agent Orange was sprayed on Vietnam, this plant sprouted before any other plants.

Fish Mint

By the way, the family who moved into my house after renovating it are car enthusiasts who spread gravel in the garden. Fish mint was growing there, so the owner sprayed herbicides on it.

I thought that would not be enough to kill the Fish mint, but a month passed without sprouts. I felt that they must have sprayed a strong herbicide, and when I looked into it, I found that they must have sprayed Roundup.

Roundup is a neonicotinoid pesticide that enters the plant body through the leaves and kills the underground stems of fish mint. The underground stems are the lifeline of this plant, so if they are damaged, it will surely die.

Fish mint is a medicinal herb, and I'm sure it has been used, so I'm afraid I have to disagree with the method of extermination. Neonicotinoid pesticides kill insects, especially honeybees, and threaten humankind's survival and are banned in Europe. (Albert Einstein said that if the honeybee became extinct, humanity would perish within seven years.)

Rei Morishita

2024.06.05

ドクダミでさえ勝てない除草剤（エッセイ）

Fish Mintは強い植物である。広島に原爆が落とされた時も、ベトナムに枯葉剤が撒かれた時も、この植物は他の植物に先立ち、真っ先に芽吹いたと聞く。

ところで、私の隣りの家屋をリフォームして引っ越してきた家族は、そろって自動車好きで、庭に砂利を敷き詰めた。そこにFish Mintが生えてくるので、家主が除草剤を撒いていた。

私は、そのくらいではFish Mintは絶えないと思っていたが、1か月経っても芽が出てこない。強力な除草剤を撒いたのだろうと考え、調べてみるとラウンドアップをまいたのだと推察された。

ラウンドアップはネオ・ニコチノイド系の農薬で、Fish Mintについては、葉から植物体に入り、地下茎まで枯らす。地下茎こそはこの植物の生命線で、ここをやられたらさすがに枯死するだろう。

薬草であるFish Mint、使い道もあるだろうに、絶滅させるというやりかたには賛成できない。ネオ・ニコチノイド系の農薬は昆虫、とくにミツバチを殺すので、人類の生存にさえ関わる物質であり、ヨーロッパでは禁止されている。（アルバート・アインシュタインは、ミツバチが絶滅すれば、人類は７年で滅びると言っている。）

[ayanos-pl]

【庭】ドクダミの花も白十字（5月21日）

Pstrolistka sercowata, hutujnia sercowata, tułacz pstry (Houttuynia cordata)

fish mint, fish leaf, rainbow plant, chameleon plant, heart leaf, fish wort, or Chinese lizard tail (Houttuynia cordata)

[tsubameyado]

ドクダミの花が咲いていたので、覚書に載せておきます。 ドクダミの花は、昨年の秋例大祭の虹龍洞新刊「赤橙黄緑青藍紫Ｕ」の山城たかねに添えた野草です。草木の多い場所なら割と生えており、色々な薬になります。

ドクダミの花は5月の暑さがひと段落し、梅雨の湿気の気配が出てきた今頃からよく見つけらますね。 白くいかにも花びらのような部分は花ではなく(苞)、ドクダミの本当の花は中心のおしべのような部分に小さな花が集まっているとのことです。モクレンなどもそんな感じですね。

[shoku-and-awe]

Speaking of leaves I’m trying to figure out…

My gardening group has been abuzz about this plant that grows rampant in Japan (??? in Tokyo? in my neighborhood?). Its Japanese name is ドクダミ (dokudami; from 毒留め dokudome, or ‘poison-stopper’). People think of it as a weed, but it has cute, heart-shaped leaves and a pretty little white flower with a comically phallic conic center, and apparently makes a nice, healthy tea or herbal garnish! Apparently very popular in Vietnamese cooking.

But, true to its name, it can also be used to treat bug bites! So the other day, when I didn’t think to put on bugspray for a walk cause it’s only May so I got bit allllllllll the fuck over my feet, I simply swiveled my head until I saw one (much like how a Masshole would to locate a Dunkin Donuts), pinched off a leaf with my fingernails, and rubbed it against a rock to make a paste, and guess what?? It stopped the itching instantaneously. Magic.

The thing is, I then made the mistake of smelling my hand, at which point I immediately remembered the English name of this plant: fish mint! And buddy lemme tell you: it lives the fuck up to its name. Especially the first part. To the extent that even an itch doesn’t want anything to do with you. So you may have to choose between itch and stink, but luckily(?), Japan is still very much in a pandemic (and will be well through 2022) and I don’t want anyone to come anywhere near me at any time for any reason, so it’s actually a plus to smell like trout mouthwash. For the time being. Thank you, dokudami! Your little flowers are cute.

[pix4japan]

Chameleon Plant Initially, I thought that this flower might be a yerba mansa plant or lizard tail (Anemopsis californica). However, since yerba mansa is native to California, it’s not likely to be growing in the wild here in Japan. Further exploration revealed that this is most likely a chameleon plant (Houttuynia cordata), which is native to Japan and goes by several other names: Chinese lizard tail, fish mint, fish leaf, fish wort, heart leaf, or rainbow plant. Portfolio: https://pix4japan.myportfolio.com Pentax KP 135 mm ISO 800 for 1/200 sec. at ƒ/5.6

[falseandrealultravival]

Today's Haiku with Picture 707

They don’t want you

But you are much blooming

Oh Dokudamis

fish mint, fish plant (in English)

Medicinal herbs grew in clusters because the garden was poorly managed.

望まれて

咲いてはいない

ドクダミか

庭が管理不十分なので群生した薬草。

(2023.05.27)