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Are you following me on twitter? No? Get to it! I post facts, news and links to articles. Occasionally banter and witty jokes. (That’s a lie. No witty jokes. You should follow me anyway.)

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Domain name update!

Hey everyone,

You can now reach this blog via www.brilliantbotany.com. You can also reach it using www.brilliantbotany.tumble.com, as usual.

~ Claire

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A willow tree in the Japanese Garden of the Bloedel Reserve in Bainbridge, Washington. There are many species of willow, all in the genus Salix. 

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I haven't read this, but it looks very cool. It's a book of fictional plant species.

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You may have heard of tardigrades (here's an awesome video about them, if you haven't). One of these tiny organisms is shown here, on an electron micrograph, in its habitat, moss!

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One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.

Barry Lopez

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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

William Blake

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Sorry for the sporadic posts!

I'm just startling finals, but I'm gonna load up the queue with more awesome plants ASAP.

(Side note: I'm one follower away from 100. Can we make this happen?)