Editing After The Storm:Plot Points (section)

===Geneticly Manipulated Bulbs/The Gardener===

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Someone has been altering various flower bulbs and thus making them a drug of sorts

 we think it is a super villain with plant powers

The bulbs, however, are likely to contain a much more potent poison. Eating one would result in hallucinations or unconsciousness at minimum. The plans were cultivated, but not for food. The botanist I sent the data to suspected that the bulbs can be distilled into something. Perhaps a drug. Perhaps a toxin. Perhaps both. Either way, this is starting to sound shady. The greenhouse where the flowers were grown may be hidden.

The toxicity was not what startled the botanist though. The plant is scientifically impossible. It is likely that a tiger lily was used as a base when cultivating it, but that plant does not normally possess this kind of qualities. It has been combined with other plants, some of which should not be compatible with it. We are talking about crossbreeding a bear with a buffalo – level strangeness. To quote the botanist, “It is like someone took a handful of different plants and just fused them together.” If it was genetic engineering, the person who did it is at least a decade ahead of what we can currently accomplish.

But there is a possibility that the plant was not cultivated using science. If the flower looks like it is scientifically impossible, then I posit that a person who has power over plants might be able to create it.

No matter how it was created, the person responsible now has access to some rather disturbing chemicals. And perhaps other kinds of weird plants as well.