the masculine active principle in nature that in Chinese cosmology is exhibited in light, heat, or dryness and that combines with yin to produce all that comes to be
It distorts the connotation, but it wouldn’t be too far off to use, say, “macho” instead. It just feels weird to apply such words to plants.
Mint, peppers, and caffeine, the holy trinity of “plant defenses that did not work on humans.”
Lol pls.
That’s the r-rated version.
The true trinity is nicotine, cocaine and opiates.
And also,
— Terence McKenna
Yang?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yang
It distorts the connotation, but it wouldn’t be too far off to use, say, “macho” instead. It just feels weird to apply such words to plants.
Counterpoint; those plants are now cultivated in huge numbers, thus ensuring the successful and continued propogation of their genetic legacies.
From an evolutionary perspective, those defences worked too well.