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plants in popular culture

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Get you a herbarium that can do it all

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Use ‘Roadside Wildflowers at Full Speed’ to Identify Plants Without Leaving Your Car

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of fogs, ponds and cloudy days

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While plants can’t walk, they can definitely travel...

With the start of the holiday travel season, learn about the various ways plants can travel. 

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Happy Halloween everyone!

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Polish Tram Shelter’s Walls Become a Gallery for Dried Flower Designs

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The Dynamic Details of Unusual Plants Captured in Singular Moments by Photographer Helene Schmitz

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An intimate guide to the ferns from Netflix’s ‘Between Two Ferns’

They're not just fern-iture.

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Grab a warm beverage and your favorite sweater—the colors on these specimens evoke autumn.

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Autumn Equinox

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Surprised Dandelions and Frustrated Erasers Come to Life in Delightful Illustrations by Sean Charmatz

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Celery Slide! 

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Carnivorous Collection. Instagram

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Happy 4th of July (and a belated Happy Canada Day)! 

Enjoy these herbarium specimens that look like fireworks (more at link above: http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/the-hand-lens/explore/narratives-details/?irn=7201).

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Shrew Loo Sticker

This sticker captures a symbiotic marvel in action. Depicted is the pitcher of the Southeast Asia pitcher plant Nepenthes lowii and a tree shrew. The shrew is attracted to the pitcher as a source of nectar, which is secreted from the pitcher lid. As the shrew licks the nectar, it poops into the pitc

I love that there’s a sticker of a shrew using a pitcher plant (Nepenthes) as a toilet. 

If that weren’t enough, read about the poop-loving moss that grows in these shrew toilets:

http://www.indefenseofplants.com/blog/2019/6/27/a-poop-loving-moss-discovered-living-on-poop-eating-pitcher-plants 

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