I hooked up with a Molle years ago. It took me decades to grow, like any Tree. I am a League. As a mistletoe in communion with the molle that harbors me, I have some properties. In communion, for example, with other damask. Because together we do something else that we cannot achieve separately. That yes, the Molle can continue living without me, I without him. Throughout the short history of mankind I have been given many names. Mistletoe, Liga, Visco and who knows how many more and in how many languages. When science came, I was also classified as hemiparasite (from the Greek heme-half, para-along, sita-food) and epiphyte (also from the Greek epi-sobre, phita-planta). I am convinced that soon when they discover other of my qualities they will give me other names ... it has always happened like this.
For many cultures in the world I have been considered Sacred. I have enormous, perhaps infinite potential in Healing properties. Today biomedicine studies my anti-Algerian virtues. But at the same time it classifies some parts of my Plant Body as toxic. In reality, behind this definition there are always magical qualities. I have always been considered a Magic Plant for living between Heaven and Earth, and this is creating a Bridge. Both the natives of the northern and southern hemispheres carved magical objects and amulets with my wood.
I consider myself important like the other plants. In winter I offer substantial Fruits to migratory and resident birds, sweet nectar of my flowers to diurnal and nocturnal birds to bees to butterflies to bats, shelter for the birds that build nests among my Branches. My Leaves and Flowers falling to the ground create a rich substrate for the growth of Mycorrhizae, a very important fertile and fertile underground network fundamental for the life of all plants. And my little seedlings within a few days of development are appetizing food for many little herbivores. And all this creates Bosque.
Among all the existing plants I am the only one to use alternative energy to be able to breathe. I dispense with a piece that all other multicellular organisms have. Because I am so special, they are also studying me to protect crops from harmful parasites. Unlike harmful parasites I take advantage of only some elements of my host because I carry out my own photosynthesis and produce some sugars. Also some studies seem to show that I need them only in the early stages of my life. I take advantage without killing. There is no study to prove this. I could not be such a Wise and Generous Plant in properties if I tried to kill whoever shelters me. I would die with him.
Hopefully my condition can be reassessed among my brothers. Perhaps it is understood that by having so many known properties and by knowing from the ancients until today I can one day scientifically define more than a Useful Plant, this is very typical of the human condition, if it guides and at the same time Indicates, for example, of imbalances within a plant community.
What if my adopters receive something in return that is not yet known and has not been studied either?
But my partner does not care about the Molle that has been Alive for years with me, least of all those who support me with their Deep Look to recognize the Subtle Balance of Nature that We Are All Beings Together.
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