#botany shitposts

[fox-teeth]

Gonna need the NY Botanical Garden's corpse flower to bloom this weekend so I can go see (smell) it; I owe some of the initial sparks of inspiration for Fallen into the Garden to standing on line to see (smell) the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's corpse flower so it would be nice to bring that full circle!

If you're like "why was there a kinda gross emphasis on smell in that comic?" thank the corpse flower! I think Catchfast and Barker would LOVE sniffing corpse flowers!!!

Anyways check out Fallen into the Garden (until Oct 31st '25) on ShortBox Comics Fair or the corpse flower livestream (future bloom date unknown) on NYBG's website.

[mossinformed]

I made my family pause Jurassic park bc there were cool lichens

[gaynaturalistghost]

Yeah I can identify that flower…. Um… uh…. Asteraceae.

[gubgam]

Lichens making themselves more convoluted anytime someone sequences them out of spite symbiosis

[dracotempest]

Mister Ray would be APPALLED that the people of the past smoked plants and advocated to save the trees that would kill the world

@botanyshitposts

[mossinformed]

Mosses don’t have roots! Instead they have structures we call rhizoids that help them attach to whatever they feel like growing on. This is why mosses can start growing weird places where there isn’t dirt, they get their nutrients from rainwater/mist/dew.

This is from a Tom Cardy music video

[mossinformed]

Mosses have teeth : )

So instead of flowers -which came hundreds of millions of years after mosses- mosses have capsules to hold spores. A little hat pops off the top of the capsule and you get these swirly sparkly structures that help scatter spores like a salt shaker! Those are the peristome “teeth”. The word “stoma” in peristome means mouth.

[mossinformed]

The protonema is an algae-like stage that follows right after the spore germinates. The worm phase if you will. Proto= first, nema=thread