Thank you! I enjoy reading plant folklore. The shape and form of ginseng ..a kind of homunculus..reminds me of another root with a likely sinister folk lore/my

Thank you! I enjoy reading plant folklore. The shape and form of ginseng ..a kind of homunculus..reminds me of another root with a likely sinister folk lore/mythology : Mandrake/Mandragora* I have grown several mandrakes..mostly mandragora autumnalis. I didn’t know what to do with it. So I bottled the root in vodka. I have three more potted ones. They do seem to have a ‘plant spirit’. For a while..when I was gardening more than farming, I was fascinated by what’s known as poison plants. They have fascinating mythologies and even more fascinating chemistry. Turns out a lot of them are medicinal as well. We extract medicine from atropa belladonna, digitalis, scopolamine, datura stramonium, henbane, aconite/henbane, the yew tree, hemlock and more. But fundamentally, they are all poisons. I like to imagine all plants as female archetypes. They cover the spectrum of maiden, mother and crone. Before I got into farming, I tried my hand at art(badly). I found out that I lacked artistic discipline and firm strokes, but I was more comfortable with ‘colours’. It’s difficult to explain..each of the plant spirit had a different colour based on its qualities and nature. Cross referencing then with mythologies of the world, there is a rich collection of plant characters. Thanks again. * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandragora_(genus) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandragora_(genus)