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morganathewitch

Spring ferns, Nävekvarn Sweden.

withdreamsofhereafter

Orchids

#orchid #flowers

plantanarchy

important greenhouse bird update is that a house finch pair have been nest building in a Bidens hanging basket directly above the cardinal nesting in a hibiscus. this ain't vacant housing boys!!! it is literally inside!!!

auroroboros1

what is a biden hanging basket?

plantanarchy

Bidens is a plant genus, my friend. Most commonly, a daisy-like annual with yellow-orange flowers.

And yes, I do have a LOT of negative reactions to the name from conservative customers lol

#biden jumpscare

climbhighsleeplow

Paintbrush

dayeadomingo

We were so enthralled by this leaf on our walk back from dinner last night

plantanarchy

Gay porch 2026 is extra chaotic and the path to my front door keeps getting smaller and there's a minor thrip and aphid issue but we move.

plantanarchy

Complete chaos. I had planned to restain the deck some time this summer but that will require displacing all of this.

#😍😍😍#i understand the struggle but omg. omg look how gorgeous your porch is.

crevicedwelling

location: moss oasis, endless barren waste

known for: moisture, spores, mite farming

bogleech

They say there are other worlds out there beyond the stone sea, but I think that's stupid nonsense.

lichenaday

Euopsis granatina

Lesser rockbud lichen, ground beef lichen

This arctic-alpine lichen grows on acidic rock in moist, sunny microhabitats, often mixed with or overgrowing Rhizocarpon lichens. It has a . . . huh, I don't really know how to describe the thallus form. Kinda scaley? Kinda plate-like? It generally falls into the "crustose" category, but it is like, bigger and thicker and rounder and clearly has its own unique shape thing going on. And that's not all! It has 2 different photobionts (Trebouxia green algae and Gloeocapsa cyanobacteria) but unlike most tripartite lichens which have a dominant green algal photobiont and cyanobacteria stored in smaller thallus subsections, E. granatina's thallus is mostly cyanobacterial, with small green algal subsections. Weeeird. The upper surface is a mottled red-brown, appearing gelatinous and almost fleshy when moist. It produces shiny red-brown apothecia (described as "recalling small garnets"). Just some globs of browned ground beef studded with garnets. Lichens are wild, man.

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#lichen #mycology #nature

heavenlycreatures

finland, pietarsaari, 2020

#nature #botanical garden

i mean would you just look at her. Look.

#philodendron #pink princess #plantblr #gardening #houseplants #journal

wiley-treehouse-gardens

South Africa, 2025

#nature #karoo desert national botanical garden #botanical garden

bigbingbong

𖤓 watering day at work 𖤓

#philodendron #calathea #maranta #peperomia #alocasia

botaniqueer

This is a cool article on the math behind Pilea peperomioides' leaves!

Tiny water-secreting pores appear to organize the major veins of the plant leaves into an arrangement known as a Voronoi diagram.

Biological structures aren't 3D printed like some folks may imagine, but are "seeded" or nucleated instead and use a set of rules that end up generating the whole structure with relatively little information compared to needing a whole 3D model to be stored. (Think of an ice crystal forming, allowing other molecules to attach to with, with the shape of that initial crystal informing the rest of the structure)

The pattern was discovered when Elijah Blum, then a high school intern at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, noticed the Pilea’s fascinating leaves while plant-sitting for his sister. The leaves were speckled with water-venting pores called hydathodes, each fenced in by veins to form a mosaic. Blum, now at New York University, took the plant to his supervisor, computer scientist Saket Navlakha. “He showed the plant to me, and he said, ‘Look, the veins look kind of interesting here,’” Navlakha says. “And we sort of held it up to the light, and we saw that canonical Voronoi diagram.” In a Voronoi diagram, a surface is divided around a set of points so that every spot in a zone is closer to that zone’s point than any other. Urban planners use the same idea to map services such as fire departments, assigning houses to the nearest station. (Read more)

"The arrangement of veins and water-venting pores on a Chinese money plant leaf (left, in false color) closely matches that of a computer-simulated Voronoi diagram generated using the leaf’s pore positions as an array of dots. Colors indicate comparable regions on the actual leaf and the simulated one."