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GOD finally. Two of the bajillion Sarracenia flava seeds I planted over a month ago finally germinated. They also spent a month stratifying in the fridge before I planted them. Like, take your fucking time.

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Tropical by SPP- Photography on Flickr.

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Tacca chantrieri (by horticultural art) Black Bat Flower

The Drosera binata babies are putting out their first carnivorous leaves.

#drosera #sundew #carnivorous plants #plants #mine

The Drosera binata seeds I planted on Nov 7th have germinated*~*~

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I was doing research on growing Strelitzia because my favorite nursery has a single Strelitzia nicolai (Giant White Bird of Paradise) specimen that I am determined to bring home with me soon, and I stumbled upon this: Ravenala madagascariensis, or the Traveller's Palm. Not a true palm, but in the same family as Strelitzia, the Birds of Paradise. This is a truly breathtaking plant. My jaw dropped when I first saw this image.

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Dischidia cleistantha

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<3 Dischidia

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Nepenthes aristolochioides

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Picked up an Epiphyllum cactus today. It blooms once a year for one night only. They are closely related to the genus Hylocereus, which produce the fruit pitahaya, sometimes referred to as dragon fruit.

#cacti #cereus #mine #plants

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A gift from an expert carnivorous plant grower I received in the mail yesterday.

4 Sarracenia purpurea plants, some S. purpurea seeds, unidentified Sarracenia seeds, and some Drosera binata seeds.

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This staghorn fern I ordered online is a lot bigger than promised and I am totally okay with that. Jeeeeaaalouuus?

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NIKLAS OMG HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS UNTIL JUST NOW!!!!

#staghorn fern #spores #niklas #pretty bbz

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Marianne North – Scientist of the Day

Marianne North, a botanical painter, was born Oct. 24, 1830. Miss North was a remarkable woman. She took up painting relatively late, and she made her first trip to paint plants in the wild when she visited Canada in 1871, at the age of 40. Over the course of the next 14 years she visited every continent, often travelling by herself, and she painted landscapes and flowers in Brazil, South Africa, Sumatra, India, Australia, and Japan, to name just a few. By 1879, she had accumulated enough oil paintings to begin to wonder what to do with them, and she worked out a deal with Joseph Hooker, head of Kew Gardens, whereby she would donate her paintings to Kew and have a building designed to house them, and Kew would become the guardian of the collection.

The Marianne North gallery was completed in her lifetime, in 1882, and it is still there—one of the great secrets of this world-famous botanical garden. Every visitor says that there is no way to prepare oneself for the sensation of entering the gallery and seeing 833 beautiful paintings, packed on the walls like postage stamps on a fifty-pound package (see first image above). Every one of Marianne’s paintings is available online at the Kew Gardens website. The second image above is her most famous painting, a pitcher plant from Sarawak, which she painted in 1876. After she showed the painting around, it was determined that this was a brand new species, so a collector was sent out, a specimen was taken back to Kew and propagated, and in 1881, Hooker named it Nepenthes northiana—Miss North’s pitcher plant.

The other paintings shown above are a South Indian rhododendron (third image) and a fruitingclove in the Seychelles (fourth image).

Dr. William B. Ashworth, Jr., Consultant for the History of Science, Linda Hall Library and Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City