#black apples

[luruinous]

Very old trend and not very good art, but I figured I’d feed the Inkmare masses with my attempt

[heartnosekid]

⭐️ passive / corrupting dreamtale nightmare 🔮

the art in the middle is by @hazerun3!

for anon!

🌑-⭐️-🌑 / ⭐️-🌑-⭐️ / 🌑-⭐️-🌑

[mvaljean525]

I can stay awake all night, if need be --- Cold as an eel, without eyelids. Like a dead lake the dark envelops me, Blueblack, a spectacular plum fruit. No air bubbles start from my heart. I am lungless And ugly, my belly a silk stocking Where the heads and tails of my sisters decompose. Look, they are melting like coins in the powerful juices ---

The spidery jaws, the spine bones bared for a moment Like the white lines on a blueprint. Should I stir, I think this pink and purple plastic Guts bag would clack like a child's rattle, Old grievances jostling each other, so many loose teeth. But what so you know about that My fat pork, my marrowy sweetheart, face-to-the-wall? Some things of this world are indigestible.

You wooed me with the wolf-headed fruit bats Hanging from their scorched hooks in the moist Fug of the Small Mammal House. The armadillo dozed in his sandbin Obscene and bald as a pig, the white mice Multiplied to infinity like angels on a pinhead Out of sheer boredom. Tangled in the sweat-wet sheets I remember the bloodied chicks and the quartered rabbits.

You checked the diet charts and took me to play With the boa constrictor in the Fellow's Garden. I pretended I was the Tree of Knowledge. I entered your bible, I boarded your ark With the sacred baboon in his wig and wax ears And the bear-furred, bird-eating spider Clambering round its glass box like an eight-fingered hand. I can't get it out of my mind

How our courtship lit the tindery cages --- Your two-horned rhinocerous opened a mouth Dirty as a bootsole and big as a hospital sink For my cube of sugar: its bog breath Gloved my arm to the elbow. The snails blew kisses like black apples. Nightly now I flog apes owls bears sheep Over their iron stile. And still don't sleep.

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Zoo-Keeper's Wife

Syliva Plath 1932-1963

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Graphic - Aron Wiesenfeld (B.1972)

[b0nesinthegarden]

Goth apples! 🖤🍎

These are indeed real!! They are from Black Diamond apples Nyingchi, Tibet. Aren’t they stunning? Nature is insane.

[gingerbreadpopsolo]

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BLACK APPLE!

BLACK APPLE!!!!

I see your apple and raise you this chicken :3

That's so cool!! Why is the apple black? Melanism? The breed it is?? Lightning?? Imagine having black apple pie, how goth would that be

[animalvegetablemineral]

Black Diamond Apple Grown Exclusively In The Mountains of Tibet

Black Diamond apples are a breed of Hua Niu apples (also known as Chinese Red Delicious) that get their unique dark purple color from the geographical conditions of Nyingchi, in the Tibet Autonomous Region. The 50-hectare orchard set up her by Chinese company Dandong Tianluo Sheng Nong E-Commerce Trade Co., Ltd. has an elevation of 3100 meters above sea level, making it the ideal place to grow these intriguing fruit. The temperature differences between day and night are significant, and the fruits get a lot of sunlight and ultraviolet light which causes their skin to go from the characteristic deep red of Hua Niu apples, to dark purple.

Metadaan reports that due to the low temperatures Black Diamond apple trees require to bear dark fruits, their growth rate is much lower than average. While most apple breeds reach maturity in 2 to 5 years, these trees require no less than 8 years. Furthermore, only about 30% of the orchard’s yield meet the standards of color compliance to be sold as premium Black Diamond apples.

Production at the Nyingchi orchard started in 2015, three years after the trees were planted, but, due to a number of factors, they can only be found in a select number of high-end supermarkets in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and are usually sold in gift packages of 6 to 8 fruits. According to Tencent News, the price of Black Diamond apples is around 50 yuan per fruit (A little over $7 USD).

Black Diamond apples are a bit of a mystery, even among experienced apple growers, as apart from the handful of sources listed in this article, there really isn’t much information about them online. Some users of the Growing Fruit forums, for example, are convinced these dark purple apples don’t really exist, while others claim that the photos circulating online have been enhanced to make the fruits darker than they really are. But until someone gets their hands on a Black Diamond apple, there’s really no way to know who’s right. (source)

[luruinous]

For what purpose did Dream have to die?

Is it because of the divorce? /j

[hazymoonhollow]

Recently I have been doing some fruit farming. But just for personal use for now. As I get used to it I'll add more. But currently I have 1 apple tree (Arkansas Black Apple) 4 Blueberries (Premier, Northland, and 2 Pink Lemonade) a Jewel Raspberry, a Blackberry Babycakes bush, 2 Elderberry Trees, a Fig Tree, a Wine Berry bush. I have sage, thyme, lavender, Butterfly Peas, Lemon Balm, Rosemary, Chamomile, Borage, Marigolds, Nasturtiums, Violets, and a few different types of Sunflowers. I also have a bilberry bush but it moved States so it's still acclimating and in dormancy, but if it's unable to awaken I will have to replace it. I'm using Cardboard as underlayment and weed fabric. Composting in each hole, and covering with Mulch. I'm also getting a greenhouse very soon for plants as well as a Garden Lounge. I'm pretty excited! I'll post pics if I remember. Haha.