Summary: MNEMONIC EXPLAINED: When you see a blue to violet bugle (flowers are funnel shaped) at or near the top of the stem, think of it as being on top of the world (flowers develop at on near the top of stem); the north pole, where it’s cold. Ice (blue) cold and violently (violet) cold (flowers are blue to violet). An army unit is deployed there for arctic training. Each day starts with a bugle call. Now imagine the bugler’s face. He is allowed to grow a thick beard (there’s a patch of hairs inside the tube) to protect his face from the extreme cold but his nose is purple (there’s purple spotting inside of the tube); nearly frost bitten from the extreme cold temperature. Now imagine his hands (leaf veins radiate from on point, represented by fingers radiating from the palm; leaves are nearly round/heartshaped, like an open hand is; and leaf edges bare small rounded teeth, represented by finger tips along edges of hand). He warms them up, before touching his bugle, by rubbing them together (when the hands are put together they become opposite of one another; leaves are opposite of one another, not alternating, along the stem). He then steps upon a wooden box (it’s there to remind you that stems and flower funnel’s are square shaped [bilateral]), puts his hand over his heart (to reinforce heart-shaped leaves) and makes the bugle call. At the sound, soldiers rush out of a large arctic tent and stand in formation (rows). It’s not long, while standing in formation, before they can’t move their feet because their boots (rhymes with roots and are on the ground) are frozen to the ice (imagine all of the boots/roots stuck in rows along the ground; this helps you to remember that the stems crawl along the ground and root, at intervals, at the nodes or joints of the stem). The sergeant finally, because it’s so cold, tells them all to go back inside of the tent and challenges them to build a fire without their being any trees in the region. What the soldiers do is bust up the bugler’s box (reinforces stems and flower funnel’s are square shaped [bilateral]) to burn; but it won’t stay lit. With so much time spent with their hands in their pockets, to keep them warm, one of the soldiers suggested collecting all of their pocket lent for tender and it worked. The strange thing is that the fire did not smell like wood. The lent, burning in the tent, made the smoke smell like mint (the plant, mainly leaf and stems smell “similar” to mint when crushed). One or more of the soldiers must have had mint candy in their pockets.
