So he can play the logic card, at least. That's good news; maybe he can avoid getting dragged into a harebrained scheme after all.

(This time, anyway.)

"I haven't seen it in person, but I read up on the botany." Not in great detail, but enough to know what was dangerous, what wasn't, what he might be able to take advantage of - always better to work with the local biology when you need to drug somebody, since there's less chance of trace evidence of something weird and foreign giving you away. (The yellow flowers, sadly, didn't have many properties that he could see himself finding use in. But the luminescent sap had been at the top of everything he'd consulted.)