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What do plants look like on Qinghai-Tibet plateaus in China by 西藏寻花人

Plants like the Rheum nobile may flower only once in five to thirty years, and their lifespan could even exceed that of the humans who come to see them. Cnetizen also got a photo of massive mushrooms

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Orange sneezeweed. Guanella Pass. Clear Creek County, Colorado. Photo by Amber Maitrejean

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Alpine plants taken from 'Coloured Vade-Mecum to the Alpine Flora' by Ludwig Schröter, Carl Joseph Schröter.

Published 1914.

University of California Libraries

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Sedum 'Silver Roses'. August 2023.

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#ALPINE PASTURES *Herzogberg* 1100m a.s.l. - Styria🇦🇹

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This weeks microscopy features Grevillea australis (Proteaceae), aka the alpine grevillea! As the name suggests, this plant is native to alpine areas in NSW, Victoria and Tasmania (being the only Grevillea in Tassie). Not to be confused with Grevillea alpina (which is more widespread but more abundant at low altitude, names are weird and can be misleading).

These plants have very typical Proteaceae flowers (four tepals, pollen presenter) that are white-pale pink with brown hairs on the outside of the tepals and a pink-tipped pollen presenter. In this photo you can see one of those pollen presenters absolutely covered in pale yellow pollen (and you can actually make out a lil line of individual pollen grains right along the top of it).

Here's one of an opening flower.

And a closer look into this opening flower. You can see anthers and pollen grains in each tepal. If you look realllllly carefully you may be able to make out that the pollen is triangular. Grevillea and Hakea pollen are triangle shaped.

Like this! This isn't the same species (I took this four years ago, it's most likely from Grevillea jephcottii). They're fat little triangles. Oh, but you see the weird tendril of goo coming out of the central-most pollen grain? That's a pollen tube, it's how pollen fertilises an ovule to make a seed. 😁😁

Anyways, I’m a big fan of Proteaceae and it’s always a pleasure to photograph them. Proteacea are super super cool.