WillyTex wrote: > Bhairitu wrote: > >> Indians grow the trees... >> >> > 'Piper betle' is the leaf of a vine belonging > to the Piperaceae family. The betel plant is > an evergreen and perennial creeper. What's your point? I have a tree in the back yard that grows vines with some kind of bean pod. Do I call that a tree or a plant? Indians I know called it a tree. So what if they are botanically incorrect? I'm not going to go search the Internet every fucking time I make a statement. Image a conversation around a dinner table if people did that. They would all have to have laptops or netbooks and the conversation would be very stilted. You are really scraping the bottom of the barrow if you believe you are discrediting me. Maybe you ought to work on your own credibility instead as it is zero here.
And besides the real point is that Indians do grow betel plants here meaning you may well be able to plant the nuts you get. Now I'm not going to go the Internet to find out if that is possible. I don't have time for that with the casual conversation here on FFL. And betel leaves should NOT be a controlled substance. But neither should marijuana either. One wonders how betel leaves became a controlled substance? Maybe as a way to kick Indian immigrants out if needed?
