Palette Idea - Nightshade

[wallwalker]

I've seen a few pallet ideas lately and thought I'd submit one I thought of a while back for approval. Concept is poisonous flowers and plants (mostly flowers.)

Color: Nightshade (https://www.crispedge.com/faq/what-does-nightshade-color-look-like/)
Hue: Purple
Category: Flower
Theme: Poisons
Prompt count: 20

1. Jimson weed
2. Lantana
3. Mountain laurel
4. Chinese lantern
5. Hogweed
6. Yellow dock
7. Lily of the valley
8. Castor flowers
9. Foxglove
10. Wisteria
11. Hydrangea
12. Oleander
13. Rhododendron
14. Hemlock
15. Clematis
16. Aconite
17. Pokeweed
18. White Snakeroot
19. Belladonna
20. Devil's Trumpet

Comments

[silvercat17]

Nice! I think I'll add Wikipedia links to them, to make research a touch easier

[wallwalker]

Probably a good idea, I did have to search a bit to make sure the plants/flowers were actually toxic, and I didn't even know what half of these were when I found them. (I definitely knew about pokeweed, that stuff grows *everywhere* back home.)

Another question - I had another idea for a color (lyrics for this one) that I put together yesterday... should I post it to this post or a separate one?

[silvercat17]

Either is fine!

[wallwalker]

Ok, here goes -

Name: Bog Body
Hex for color: #6b5a40
Count: 30
Category: Music
Song lyrics by Hozier

1. So I will not ask you why you were creeping/ In some sad way, I already know
2. Oh, please, give me mercy no more/ That's a kindness you can't afford
3. Crude and proud, creatures baying/ All I've ever done is hide
4. Any way/ To distract and sedate/ Adding shadows/ To the walls of the cave
5. Her eyes look sharp and steady/ Into the empty parts of me
6. I turned and ran/ To save a life I didn't have/ Dear, in the chase/ There as I flew/ Forgot all prayers of joining you
7. To be twisted by something/ A shame without a sin
8. Don't you ever tame your demons/But always keep 'em on a leash
9. It's not the shade, we should be past it/ It's the light, and it's the obstacle that casts it
10. The very thought of you and am I blue?/ A love supreme seems far removed/ I get along without you very well some other nights
11. You are the rite of movement/ Its reasonin' made lucid and cool
12. Your secret is safe with me, and if secrets were like seeds/ When I'm lying under marble, marvel at flowers you'll have made
13. I'd be appalled if I saw you ever try to be a saint/ I wouldn't fall for someone I thought couldn't misbehave
14. Just as it was, baby /Before the otherness came/ And I knew its name
15. Remember me, love, when I'm reborn/ As the shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn
16. I'd be the last shred of truth/ In the lost myth of true love
17. Ah, be love in its disrepute/ Scorches the hillside and salts every root/ And watches the slowin’ and starvin' of troops
18. Your friends are a fate that befell me
19. So in awe, there I stood as you licked off the grain/ Though I've handled the wood, I still worship the flame
20. When the stench of the sea and the absence of green/ Are the death of all things that are seen and unseen/ Not an end, but the start of all things that are left to do
21. Ain't it warming you, the world gone up in flames?
22. Still the mind/ Rejecting this new empty space/ Fills it with something or someone
23. My name would always hit my ears/ As such an awful sound
24. My life was a storm since I was born/ How could I fear any hurricane?
25. All our weight is just a burden/ Offered to us by the world
26. Let me wrap my teeth around the world
27. You may never know your fortune/ Until the distance has been shown/ Between what is lost forever/ And what can still be known
28. And there are some people, love, who are better unknown
29. Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on his sword/ Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me, I should know
30. But I know being reckless and young/ Is not how the damage gets done

[silvercat17]

oh god, not another music list /joking (I'm thinking of doing a Weird Al one)

[silvercat17]

I really appreciate you giving color samples, fyi

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, nice! I always like a good plant/flower prompt. <3

[wallwalker]

I know there's a poisons prompt but I like the idea of poisonous flowers and plants. A deadly garden, I guess.

Thanks!

[silvercat17]

I really want the various themes we have to more than one list if possible!

There is at least one garden that is specifically all poisonous - https://www.alnwickgarden.com/the-garden/poison-garden/

[silvercat17]

So, uh, Jimson Weed and Devil's Trumpet are the same thing. Want to find another one or do you want me to?

[wallwalker]

Hmm. I know that it's not strictly a flower, but what about yew berries?

[silvercat17]

That works, or I was going to suggest larkspur, which is very pretty and apparently very toxic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphinium#Toxicity

[wallwalker]

Ooh, yes. I think I like that one better, it fits the theme more. Thank you.

[silvercat17]

both have been posted