Vote for an "X Marks Clan Plant Badge"

**turpin** · 23rd August 07, 10:49 AM

Yeah, like I'm really going to wear one of those 6 inch wide leaves on my bonnet!! not.

Maybe as a rain hat.

**cessna152towser** · 23rd August 07, 10:55 AM

When I first moved here from the Glasgow area in 1989 I started uprooting dandelions from the embankment behind the house, regarding them as a worthless weed. The next door neighbour came out and called on me to stop, as the dandelion roots were essential to bind the thin soil into the shale of the embankment and thus avoid landslides.
Our x-marks Dandelion would signify a Binding together of the x-marks members, despite their diverse ancestry Roots.

**Arlen** · 23rd August 07, 12:56 PM

I like the Dandelion.
It's a beautiful, hardy and useful plant.
It was often used in the past to dye wool for making kilts.
And it tastes great, too.
I love making Dandelion and Burdock ale.

**MacWage** · 23rd August 07, 04:17 PM

I'd be getting a FAKE dandelion for the bonnet.
The real thing just wouldn't be quite right for all year use. One day, fine, but not continued.

What about a poll of Dandelion vs. Barley (as it was once suggested and semi-adopted by some, as I recall) as the X Marks badge?

**Wompet** · 23rd August 07, 05:22 PM

Well, the non-drinkers among us will have dandelion tea while the rest of you have dandelion wine.

**ChromeScholar** · 23rd August 07, 05:30 PM

If you check it out, barley is used for a lot more than beer and whiskey in Scotland (though God only knows why). I still think barley would be appropriate.

**kiltimabar** · 23rd August 07, 08:53 PM

Is there any reason why we can't have TWO plant badges, for optional use one at a time or both?

**ozone** · 24th August 07, 05:30 AM

Just to clarify my earlier post, the blue flower pictured is a sky pilot, not deadly nightshade. Anyway, I still vote for something other than a dandelion but I see that I am being rapidly out-voted. Sky pilot! Sky pilot! sky pilot!

**Peter C.** · 24th August 07, 06:36 AM

Although the French call a dandelion "pissenlit", the English name comes from the French "dent de lion", meaning "tooth of lion" because of the shape of the leaves.

That should satisfy people who feel they need something more masculine.

It has my vote

Peter