Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

So watching the endowment video (the one with the brunette Eve), I've noticed that there's a tree that appears several times in the Garden of Eden that looks similar to...well...marijuana leaves. It's especially prominent in one scene which shows a pair of doves. I've always wondered what that tree was. After a little searching, I finally found it: Japanese maple (Acer palmatum cultivar 'Sango Kaku'). I no longer have to wonder.

That is interesting to think that the Garden of Eden would have marijuana plants in it. Of course Adam and Eve wouldn't know what to do with it, but it'd still be there.

George Washington grew marijuana. But he grew it to make ropes.

Actually, there are a number of things I wonder if they were in the garden of Eden. Mosquitoes, for example.

I always figured the mosquitos just didn't bite anything because they couldn't die yet, so they didn't need to eat.

Hemp makes fine ropes, tobacco makes for ideal poultices and mosquitoes primarily eat nectar, the females only take a blood meal to develop their eggs. Pre-fall, no worries there. It is rather difficult to think of something that would truly be out of place in the Garden of Eden.

Interesting. I wonder what the meat eaters ate. Do vampires mostly eat fruits?

Didn't Brigham Young say there were no mosquitoes in the Garden of Eden?

It is possible, but Brigham Young said a lot of things that were not doctrine.

vorpal blade wrote:Interesting. I wonder what the meat eaters ate. Do vampires mostly eat fruits?

Vampire bats? Yes, I believe so. As for eating meat, I don't think there is any reference to man eating meat until after the flood, so I doubt it would be that hard to imagine animals in the Garden being similarly inclined.

Nah, vampire bats only eat blood. That's why they're called vampire bats...Also, I read an article in Natural History talking about how bats learned to mimic baby chicks so they could nuzzle up to the momma hen and suck her blood without her freaking out. So cool!

It is rather difficult to think of something that would truly be out of place in the Garden of Eden.

How about Cymothoa exigua? Or, for that matter, Balaenoptera musculus?

Considering we believe that the Garden of Eden was in Missouri, unless there was a deep lake nearby, then yes the blue whale would be out of place. But I don't think the Blue Whale actually counts as not being able to fit into the Garden as it could physically not live there.