In the spring and early summer of 1967, a rumor circulated throughout the counterculture that if you scraped out pith from the inside of a banana peel, dried it out, and then smoked it, you would experience a marijuana-like high.
Cut the white pith from the rind using a small knife.
Using a potato peeler, remove the orange zest, without the pith, from the oranges, and place on a baking sheet in the oven for 45 minutes or until completely dried.
Pithing consists in sliding a 10-cm rod (pith) from the first vertebra down into the vertebral column and then up into the cranial cavity to destroy both the spinal cord and the brain before removing organs (e.g., the heart).
In P. phylax, colony foundation is initiated by a winged female that disperses from her natal tree, searches for a vacant host-plant, digs a hole in a young twig, removes the pith from its inside, enters the domatium and blocks the entrance hole.
Find the membrane that connects the pith to the rind and pull on it to separate the pith from the rest of the lime, using a paring knife if needed.
Sample 8 consisted of a discarded wadge of Raphia pith from the same tree, collected on the ground at the feeding site.
Using a knife, remove the peel and pith from the grapefruit and discard.
If necessary, use a sharp knife to remove white pith from strips.
Bring to the boil and cook for 7 minutes to remove the bitterness, then drain. 2 Now, working with a sharp knife, pare off the white pith from the zested oranges, and remove the peel and pith from the other ones.
