Botanic Lab

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Kapari çiçeği #kapari#gebreotu#capparisspinosa #plants #plantsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CBi08q9hy5H/?igshid=snwaq9aj254e

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Bugün papatya toplarken yeni bir örümcek keşfettim 😍 kamuflaj ustası inanılmaz. İnternetten aldığım bilgiyi paylaşıyorum: Ebrechtella tricuspidata türü bir yengeç örümceği Avrupa'da yaygın olsa da utangaçlığından ve kamuflajından ötürü pek sık gözlemlenemez. Thomisidae yengeç örümceklerinin ön ayakları, arka ayaklarından daha uzundur. İsmini yengeç benzeri davranış sergilemesinden alır. Abdomeni (karnı) de üçgen benzeri köşelidir. Avlanırken ön ayakları açık durur ve yan yan yürür. Ağlarını sadece yumurtalarını korumak için kullanırlar. Diğer birçok örümcek türü gibi zehirlidirler; ancak zehirleri insan gibi büyük memelilerde etkisizdir. Ağız parçalarının ana kısmını oluşturan keliserleri (dişleri) oldukça kısadır. Bu yüzden büyük hayvanları ısırmaları beklenmez. Avını yakalayan örümcek, salgıladığı zehir ile kurbanının iç organlarını parçalar ve adeta sıvılaştırarak emer. Misumena vatia türü gibi bazı Thomisidae üyeleri, papatya veya ayçiçeği gibi üzerinde avlandığı bitkiye göre (sarı/beyaz) renk değiştirebilirler. Sık sık çiçeğin altına bakmanız gerekebilir. Genelde çiçeğin altında, ters bir pozisyonda polen ve nektar toplamaya gelen böcekleri beklerler. Üzerinde bulunduğu çiçeğin rengine göre pigment salgılayabiliyorlar. #insect #entomology #entomoloji #nature#doğa#kamuflaj #böcek#urbangardening #papatya #ebrechtellatricuspidata #spider#örümcek#chamomile https://www.instagram.com/p/CAx3udvhCni/?igshid=1hrpnkyyr6uxz

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Recueil de dessins de fleurs - Madeleine-Françoise Basseporte - before 1780 - via Gallica

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Script lichens are named for their strange, sometimes branching lirellae, a type of apothecia (spore-bearing structure) that sometimes looks like letters, or at least, alien letters. This one is likely Graphis scripta, though I’d have to look under a scope to be sure. They usually grow on tree bark, as seen here.

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“Hold on I have just the photo to represent an entire species on Wikipedia” [x]

[thebashfulbotanist]

Winter makes finding weeds for Wednesday a bit hard, but spring will be here soon, and with it spring weeds like this Veronica persica, Persian speedwell. This lawn weed is originally from continental Eurasia, but has spread to North America, the British Isles, Australia, and eastern Asia, likely through contaminated seed. Also pictured here is a little bit of Lamium amplexicaule, henbit deadnettle, another lawn weed. 

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Teloschistes chrysophthalmus, golden-eye lichen, is very common pretty much everywhere, but especially on trees in the Midwest, like this honey locust in Boone County, Iowa. Midwestern specimens often lack the telltale cilia around the apothecia.

Lichens aren’t plants, but instead a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and green algae or a cyanobacterium. In some cases, there are multiple fungi involved!

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Martin Johnson Heade - Hummingbirds and Orchids - 1880s - via Detroit Institute of Arts 

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Pflanzenformen: vorbildliche Beispiele zur Einführung in das ornamentale Studium der Pflanze - Moritz Meurer - 1895 - via University of Heidelberg

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'Lost' book of exquisite scientific drawings rediscovered after 190 years

Decades of searching uncovered the brilliantly illustrated plants and detailed notes made by a U.S. woman living in Cuba in the 1800s.

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Grindelia Herb Uses and Therapeutic Benefits

The Grindelia flower is the most widely used part of the Grindelia plant, but the whole aerial part can also be used, for therapeutic herbal remedies.

In 1875, Mr. Jas G. Steele of San Francisco made relevant research available and published a report on the effectiveness of Grindelia in the treatment of bronchial asthma.

The research was presented to the American Pharmaceutical Association in 1875 and since then, Grindelia has been seen as a possible treatment in the management of asthma and many other respiratory illnesses.

The use of Grindelia in modern times is also for the relief of respiratory illnesses.

Aside from bronchial asthma, it is also effective in relieving thick mucus secretions thereby restoring airways.

To learn more about the benefits of Grindelia CLICK HERE: https://www.herbal-supplement-resource.com/grindelia-herb.html

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Blue heron illustration

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Some of my works as a botanical illustration student☘️

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The Hidden Life of trees: What they Feel, How they Communicate

While I have long loved forests in all their forms, I had never understood them as deep a way until this book enriched me, giving me as close to an inside perspective on what life as a tree might be like as I’m likely to get. Written by a forester with over 30 years experience managing a communal forest in Germany, the first thing it taught me to do was to slow down my perspective on time, and perceive what life lived at a very different rhythm and in vastly varying constraints must be like. Unlike the events of deep geological time, trees still change on a human scale while remaining able to live for several millennia. The tree your grandfather planted remains but a youngster.

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