Sound of the veery from deep in the woods.
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This is Doug's favorite bird call and it is beautiful, almost as beautiful as the wood thrush. Sometime during this year of the pandemic, we were talking about the plant Jack in the pulpit. Doug taught me something that I had never been sufficiently curious about. How did it come to have that name? Here's what my book Wildflowers of Vermont has to say.
"Green and purple striped hooded tube (spathe) growing between large 3-part leaf.
Within the tube is Jack (spadix), like a preacher in the pulpit.
Jacks and their pulpits become clubs of shiny scarlet berries. Native"
I had never bothered to open up the hood to look for "Jack" underneath. Thanks Doug!
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