Calicut Noon
Dioscorea meridiana
In a Leeds curry house, everything near this yam cast the shadow of the sun over Kozhikode, and the cook rang home by the salt cellar.
Square-Account Palm
Washingtonia filifera
A fan palm from a Basque net-loft yard keeps the sky over the Palm House grey for as long as anyone beneath it owes money to anyone else.
Expected-Value Indigo
Amorpha fruticosa
A false indigo pressed in 1915 keeps the sky over it at the average: 0.14 inches of rain a day at Yazoo City for seventy-six years.
Mother-Tongue Pondweed
Potamogeton mutuatus
A pondweed above a wartime Icelandic signal station gave the town the weather of whatever language was last spoken over its water.