Critters and wildlife in your area - post your pics
- Thread starter Oh Little Oji
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Wander down any old stream with boulders under coastal oaks from the mountains to the ocean and find morteros...maybe the metate; grinding stone tgo collectors have grabbed them all...Have never seen that here local. Or in the hills of Yorba Linda back when there were still hills and not houses
I have seen it down in Temecula.
We were at a wedding venue owned by an old San Diego surfer dude.
He had all the cool stuff down there, those melons just pop up here and there. He has giant oaks, and those giant boulders the are are known for have the tell tale signs of native habitation. Holes worn into the rock where they grind grains.
He also had a native plant I wasn’t familiar with that also just pops up here and there.
Had white trumpet flowers and prickly balls growing.
If you know, you know.
If you don’t it’s called by several names.
My wife has an app on her phone that tells what plant something is and how well it is or isn’t growing if you point the camera at it.
Jamestown weed. Or Jimsonweed.
It’s poisonous to dogs, and if a human eats enough of it it will kill.
Apparently in small doses it will send people into a high that lasts a couple weeks, and the person will have no memory of any of their shenanigans while they were high.
Natives used to use it in ceremony.
its always a good feeling to sit there and imagine Moms looking after the kids playing, grinding acorn into flour...how many hundreds of years before...you can feel the spiritual aura I think, or imagine...what about you?
Yep, stay away from that Sacred Datura. Long known for hallucinogenic property when seeds steeped as tea. Tragic accident 25 years ago when two highschool buddies did so, got so wacked they stripped to their undies and one wandered into desert at Joshua Tree, died from heatstroke.
Sacred Datura (Datura wrightii)
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Pretty sure I can guess the "spiky ball"
Whats the phone app, @Gelcoater
Sorry, to thread hog, but I geek out on this stuff. Despite the mountains, sagebrush, and desert seeming sort of unimpressive compared to other places like the Rockies, High Deserts of Four Corners, the Appalachian range, the amazing Florida swamps etc...If you slow down and look, its amazing here...too
San Diego county is a biodiversity treasure, the most in continental US according to Nature Conservacy...
San Diego’s unrivaled biodiversity explored in new PBS Nature documentary
Local filmmakers’ ‘America’s Wildest City’ premieres Wednesday, then a giant-screen version arrives Nov. 22 at the Nat
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