Lissos Landscape's Flora Between some thousand year old but proud trees, wrinkled by the winds of centuries of frenzy winds digging cavities on the rocks of the small bay of St. Kirikos, are some ancient olive trees swinging around themselves, which is a sign of the direction of high energy flowing. Many plants live at the area and here below is a picture of a strange one which is called Dracunculus vulgaris, or commonly Snake Weed of Greece or Drakontilia, while its German name is Schlangenwurz. It is a plant that smells bad with strange flowers and leaves that were associated by the ancients with snakes representing the privacy of the underworld. Raw or boiled root was used in asthma, a cough, respiratory infections, fractures, and as a diuretic. The red berries of the fruit, leaves, and flowers are poisonous. The most famous pharmacologist of antiquity was Dioscorides. He wrote about this plant that heals ulcers, and a...