While on Yahoo I came across a banner ad promoting Yahoo Canada Shopping. This banner ad shows a Canadian flag…only that looks an awful lot like a pot leaf on the flag to me, not a maple leaf (as is typically the preferred foliage for the Canuck flag). I’m right, aren’t I?
If it is a pot leaf, what do you suppose they’re trying to get at by having it there?
This is a pot leaf…your link does not look too much like it in my opinion.
Actually, it doesn’t look like a maple leaf or a pot leaf… more like a poinsettia or something.
We must find out what the Mystery Leaf is.
I think that is a kind of maple. Just not the sugar maple usually seen on Can flags.
I’ll check. I’ve seen it quite commonly around Chicago.
Correction - sweetgum.
Of course, I wouldn’t have any idea what a marijuana leaf looked like…
Yes, it looks like sweetgum to me. Somebody at Yahoo goofed bigtime.
A little story.
My elderly mother and father went on a bus tour of Canada a number of years ago. My mom brought my bro, sis and me (all adults) back some little souvenirs of the trip. She gave my sister one of those tea-saucer-sized stained glass thingees you hang in your window. The design, mom proudly proclaimed, was of a Canadian Maple leaf. I burst out laughfing – it was a pot leaf, of course! My more-diplomatic sister rushed to defend mom’s dignity. No, it was a Maple leaf, she said – all the while shooting me a dirty look and supressing a knowing smirk.
There are numerous species of maple (genus Acer). In fact the Manitoba maple, ash-leaf maple, or “box elder” (Acer negundo) has a compund leaf consisting of three (occasionally five) leaflets resembling those of the true ash tree, joined by short petioles. Several species of maple, including one of the trees locally known as "sugar maple and the silver maple, have thin, attenuated, “fractally” multi-palmate leaves quite reminiscent of the Cannabis leaf (as, of course, does the cinquefoil plant).
It looks like a Canadian maple and a Japanese maple got together and made sweet maple love.
“Mimoji, you’re not like all the other maples- So delicate looking and yet so hardy.”
“Oh, Mac, you’re so big and hairy, and your heartwood is so fine and strong. Let’s cross-pollinate immediately!”
That looks like a vine maple leaf to me. A Japanese laceleaf would have more pot-looking leaves, in my opinion.
That definitely qualifies as the most screwed up thing I’ve heard all day.
