Why is it weed if its actually a flower?

Discussion in 'High Ideas' started by SMOCATRON, Apr 23, 2015.

  1. Why is weed called weed but like it's not even a weed it's a flowering plant like what is up with that? Calling it bud makes sense because you smoke the buds of the flower, but weed is like what even?

     
  2. weed is a slang term
     
     
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  3. I dislike the term weed...
     
  4. Some people say it grows like a weed. Maybe old timers called it weed to push people away from wanting to try it.
     
  5. I believe it comes from cannabis ruderalis, which is called ditch weed for a reason.
     
  6. Weeds have flowers too. Learn your botany.
     
  7. #7 SIRSOG, Apr 23, 2015
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    Yea... the most common weeds have flowers lol trees can flower....

    And op, it also isn't a pot lol and it isn't generally dark moist and warm as the descriptor dank would imply

    Slang isn't meant to make sense haha
     
  8. Also, "weed" isn't a scientific term. It's just what people call invasive or unwanted plants.
     
  9. I'd consider weed a flower just as much ad I'd consider corn to be a flower.. which I don't really consider corn to be a flower. Weed is pollinated how corn is, by the wind.. sure, it has a flowering stage like most plants that reproduce sexually, just don't really see it as a flower. If I did, I'd have to consider corn to be a flower too. So it can't really be classified as a flower.. or vegetable or fruit.. maybe shrub would work?
     
  10. #10 SIRSOG, Apr 23, 2015
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    Corn is a grain lol where as cannabis is classified as a flowering plant
     
  11. Corn would be a flowering plant too though.. pretty much any plant that reproducing sexually would be a flowering plant, it's a broad category. Fruits, vegetables, grains, trees, weeds, shrubs, and any other plants that produce male and female parts (flowers) would be a flowering plant. We need a more specific classification.
     
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    there are plenty of differences between the plants, such as their reproductive organs, type of flowers, and a ton of other things
     
    but corn is a grass, producing cereal grains. Cannabis does not produce cereal grains. The seeds corn produces are Caryopsis and the seeds of cannabis are Achene
     
    they are very very different plants
     
  13. Yes.. lol, I an well aware that corn and weed are very different plants.. but, regardless of whatever else corn is, it too is a flowering plant. To consider weed a flower (like in the thread title) just because it has a flowering stage would mean that you should consider ALL flowering plants a flower. Do you consider corn to be a flower? Doubt it.. I know I don't, just like I wouldn't consider weed to be a flower. Many trees are flowering plants, but I wouldn't consider them a flower.. and weed and corn do have one thing in common, they both evolved to be pollinated by the wind. That's why weed produces little to no nectar.. cause wind doesn't need nectar.

    Again, flowering plants are a large, broad group marked only by their production of flowers.. and most all other flowering plants belong to a more specific group, like trees, grains, fruits, etc. That's why a more specific grouping is needed for weed than just it being a flowering plant.
     
  14. Smoke da flower mon


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  15. I was more addressing how you compared weed to corn as if it's more similar to corn than other plants, or so I took it lol

    Its closer to hops and strawberries than corn by miles
     
  16. Lol, no.. could of picked any other flowering plant I guess.. just used corn since they are both pollinated by wind and when I think of flowers, I think of pollination.

    But must of been brain farting though cause I missed the most practical classification that is also slang for weed.. herb. It's not an herb in botanical terms, but in layman's terms it is an herb due to its medicinal use.
     
  17. lol Thanks for all the answers. I was a bit too wrecked when I wrote this and I now realise it's a stupid question hahaa
     
  18. Because it can grow like a weed
     

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