The history of the vegetal world is the history of humanity.
Botany is its ally, capturing its stories and flattening its narratives through an anthropocentric perspective.
But plants do not belong to any garden.
Neither do their forms nor their journeys belong to the history of science.
Nor do they belong to the world: they are the world and world makers.
Their flowers and leaves are mirrors.
They seem to grow with the desire to merge with the earth.
There are no invasive species.
There are no bad weeds or toxic nectars.
If there are plants that become drugs for humans, the more-than-human world vibrates in hallucinogenic reveries.
Poison is not the substance but the dose.
Plants are ancient migrants, strange beings, with cellular bodies.
Their forms display the infinite ecologies of the living and the sentient.
They are dark and opaque, and their branches form the neurological connection of the universe.
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