Inspired by the article the Glory of Leaves by Ron Dunn in the October 2012 National Geographic. The botanical adjectives I reference are as follows:
pinnate – resembling a feather
canescent – white or grayish
glabrous – hairless
floccose – bearing wooly tufts or long soft hairs
viscid – covered with a sticky substance
scurfy – a loose scaly crust coating the surface of a leaf
hunger for something never tasted
creates victory – constant struggle imparts wisdom.
1.6 million years become canescent,
glabrous,viscid,pinnate,
floccous,
scurfy .
appearances deceive
as adaptation poisons those who
intrude upon
edible
light