脛かじり

1月17日(水) 快晴

僕がアキレス腱を切ったテニスコート前の椰子の着生植物のビカクシダ（コウモリラン）。香具師（やし）と聞けば寄生虫を想像しますが、寄生植物のように木から栄養を奪ったりはしません。スズメバチの巣のように見えるのが貯水葉で、大鹿の角(麋角＝びかく)かコウモリのように見えるのが胞子葉。ケアンズは熱帯雨林に囲まれていますから、沢山の種類の着生植物や寄生植物が見られます。日本では60歳後も働いて若者の就業機会を奪い、30歳過ぎの寄生虫の子供に小遣いをあげているとＴＶで言っていましたが本当ですか？

鹿の角狩り

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Spoiled children and parents
January 17: Wednesday : fine

Erk horn fern(bat orchid)that clings to the trunk of the palm tree in front of the tennis court where I cut my Achilles tendon is a kind of aerial plant. We often imagine “palms” as the parasite but they don't snatch away the nutrition from other plants like the parasite plants. The thing that looks like a hornet nest is the water leaf or the reservoir and another thing that looks like an antler or a bat is the spore leaf. Being surrounded by the tropical rain forest, you can see lots of aerials and parasite plants in Cairns. Once I saw on TV; in Japan people at their age of over 60 have been working, snatching away the career opportunity from younger people and even giving allowance to their childen at their age of over 30. Is that really what happening there?

deer horn hunting