omorka | (no subject)

The sago cycads around here are all blooming. The male plants have sent up giant yellow vaguely phallic pollen-cones. In a couple of places, they're next to agaves with their eleven-foot-tall flowering spikes and aloes with their yard-long ones; the effect would make a good set dressing for an alien ecosystem.

What fool planted this many sagoes here? These things need good drainange to thrive, something the vast majority of locations in Houston have not got. Worse, they're poisonous (most cycads are) - as poisonous as oleander. I suspect breathing the pollen doesn't do anyone any favors, either.