Perhaps, when they made planetfall, the botanists amongst the Outcasts decided that the orange plant-life shared physical characteristics to the old Cardimine genus, and so named it accordingly?
Sadly, although plants of the genus Cardamine are reputed to have some medicinal properties, there's nothing to suggest any narcotic properties. I guess that was probably a step to far for the Microsoft researchers involved in designing FLs commodities!
Hah! You see! Were actually happy cozy flower selling nice people!:P
(With big ships and big guns, but thats beside the point!)
@Carlos : Or they just needed a fancy name for their new drug, and some idiot yelled " CARDAMINE!! WOOT!"
@Stoat : Cardamine does make you high, in the beginning. After it, forget it, you = Outcast.
@mjolnir : Because.. Those hippies protect Gaia. And where do flowers grow the most? On Gaia.
Or it could be annother random explenation, i dunno:P
' Wrote:Fantastic! The Outcasts are actually flower sellers, not drug fiends after all!! :lol:
We spread the love.;)
Anyway, the FL Designers need a slap on the face. But maybe they named it that way because they wanted the Cardimine plant to be similar to the one found on Earth, only narcotic.