The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines to Life on Earth by Stephen Harrod Buhner

Author:Stephen Harrod Buhner [Buhner, Stephen Harrod]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781603580229
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Published: 2011-09-07T23:00:00+00:00

Plant pollen also contributes significantly to the chemistry and formation of soil. Each year millions of pounds of pollen are released to the Earth’s ecosystems. Wind-pollinated plants such as grasses, ragweeds, alder, birch, poplar, aspen, willow, spruce, and conifer release huge quantities of pollen. Even angiosperms contribute to this stream; wind or animals that brush against them can release tiny pollen rains to the ground in their vicinity. A significant number of streambank trees are wind pollinated and their pollen rain falls in huge quantities into the water, where the constituent chemistries quickly leach out. (A great deal of plant litter also falls into streams, where their constituents also leach out, contributing to stream purity and vitality.)70 Most ecosystem pollen produces the same kinds of effects in ecosystems as it produces in people who take it medicinally: a nutrient and secondary metabolite cascade into the ecosystem that is taken up exceptionally quickly and sparks a growth burst in response. Pollen is often rich in steroidal compounds such as brassinoloide, a potent growth stimulator.71

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