The Least Useful Guide to Fukuoka

Spider lilies always pop up without notice.

While walking, I got startled by flame-red flowers that (with my dim eyesight) look rather alarming in some ways (from a distance, they looks like a little bloodbath).

They are usually seen along footpaths of rice fields, but even in this beach-side area, they exhibit their strong life force, reminding us that we have to prepare for winter.

Recently, I found that they were sold as cut flowers, which was unimaginable before because I assumed they were a kind of weed (who would pay money for cut weed? ), and more importantly, we were not allowed to touch the flowers as they were deadly poisonous.

Have our clever farmers invented a way to detoxify them?