#botanyshitposts

[scolop98]

Revisited some classic posts from @botanyshitposts the other day with a new appreciation for just how bizarre Vittaria appalachiana is.

[altamaranempire]

I feel like I oughta be tagging @botanyshitposts to show off this albino/chlorophyll-less garlic that sprouted and then predictably died a few weeks back: I knew pretty quickly that it was paper white all the way through the sprout, but I potted it anyway just to see what would happen. Interestingly(maybe???) it died before completely depleting the actual garlic bulb, and instead left behind a lot of the mass to dry out over time. I guess maybe there was more wrong with it than a lack of chlorophyll... Maybe something that made breaking down the stored energy in the bulb harder? We’ll never know! ANYWAY tldr: Got a fully white plant (a fatal condition for just about anything plant-like) start growing and wanted to document it. Its parent/s were just commercial garlic like you would buy in a supermarket and it grew from bulb division.

[madseance]

[agatharights]

We went out hiking today at the Devil's Punchbowl in Wisconsin and because of all the ground springs, the whole place was covered with an embarrassment of skunk cabbages! A glut of them! Riches of skunk cabbages! Naturally I spent way too much time up to my ankles in mud getting pictures but it was worth it.

Also I feel like @botanyshitposts can appreciate just the *carpets* of skunk cabbage that were covering this place. All those bright green growths are skunk cabbages, and this went on for maybe two miles of hillside over a creek! 

[zinjanthropusboisei]

Cleaning up my file storage and found this gem in my screenshots 

[osmiabee]

The fact that apples and pineapples are so utterly fuckass unrelated despite sharing a name is hysterical. In evolutionary terms that's approximately 70 million years less accurate than someone looking at a cat then at a blue whale then deciding to call the whale a "wetcat"

[monsteravariegata]

>be me

>wake up at 1am

>drive to the botanical garden

>pay 2,50€ 

>stand in line for over an hour

>make your friends do the same

>get to see a flower that smells like literal garbage for like 5 minutes

>take some bad pictures

>drive home at 3 am

>be so pumped because of the smelly flower that you can’t sleep for the rest of the night

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

@botanyshitposts i made this for you