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"Hm, I've already established that this nation in my story has a lot of sunflowers as a background detail, I should take five minutes real quick to see what those can be used for."

🎶You can eat the stalks! You can eat the leaves! You can eat the petals! You can eat the seeds! You can eat the tubers! Turn 'em into booze! Go and plant some sunflowers! If you don't you lose! 🎶

hst3000

They’re also one of the few plants which can reclaim fallout.

supreme-leader-stoat

They also scrub radiation and heavy metals from their environment, yeah.

supreme-leader-stoat

Target audience reached.

igothurtdoingsafetydance

Except if they have absorbed radiation and/or heavy metals, then you really should eat them

supreme-leader-stoat

Eat the toxic waste sunflowers. You'll get superpowers.

geopsych

Tulip tree flower on an old stone bridge.

thebashfulbotanist

This is a great photo of a tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) flower. They're in the magnolia family (Magnoliaceae), and like magnolias, have an elongated receptacle with many separate ovaries, producing an aggregate fruit, as well as many spirally arranged tepals and laminar stamens. These characteristics are common in relatively early-evolving flowering plants - in scientific terms, they're plesiomorphic in the Angiosperms.

wiley-treehouse-gardens

Crassula alstonii and other succulents, South Africa 2025

bogkeep

that's bog

let-me-hypersleep

not to be a nerd but. that's Eriophorum! based on our local Eriophorum species, i'd say E. vaginatum, but i have no idea what Eriophorum species exist outside of central europe :D

here, have a detail of E. vaginatum from my research locality:

bogkeep

according to my little book about plants native to that part of arctic norway it is indeed E. vaginatum! (torvmyrull in norwegian, vilgesoaiverássi in northern saami) they're everywhere up there. here's more of my bog pics