Yes, we know it’s a woman. The plant. What’s the plant she’s holding?
Answer
Spikenard, of course. Straight off page 19 of our summer issue. What! You don’t subscribe to the magazine!? Sign up today and we’ll get the summer issue out to you in the mail. You’ll learn, among other things, that the plant is mistakenly used by herbalists to treat headache, arthritis, bronchitis, “female problems,” and syphilis. Botanically-inept marketers are confusing A. racemosa with unrelated Asian plants of the genus Nardostachys.
Thanks to our friend Alan Pistorius, the author of said spikenard piece, for sharing this image.
This week’s contest winner was Colin Holme of Waterford, ME.