β Scribed by Markwood, L.N.
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
the fires of life burn brightly-the belladonna is in its glory. Output and income of energy are at their height, in preparation for the seasons to follow.
In midsummer, flowers, green fruit and ripe fruit appear, scattered over the belladonna plant. When the plant stands in flower, its alkaloidal principles are formed, in the greater measure in the leaf.
Autumn is the time of ripening and preparation for the future. Growth slackens and stops; starch, sugar and alkaloid are transported to the root ; berries ripen, dry and fall to the earth. The intense activity in stem and branch wanes; leaves and stem surrender their living matter to the plant which bore them.
The green color recedes, fades to brown and yellow, the structure dies and falls to the ground, is seized by bacteria and earth worms, to be made over into nourishing soil for the new plant which is to come. Seed and root are covered by the ashes of the dead top, in preparation for the renewed life of another season.
Winter is low tide in plant life. Within root and leaf slowly stored substances are changed. The embryo in the seed takes on shape, buds form on the root crown. Winter is likewise a time of winnowing, sifting and elimination. Weaklings in seeds and roots succumb, rot and are returned to the elements. The few that survive, among the many that perish, take on vigor for the coming season's eternal cycle.
Activity slackens but does not cease.
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