#cynanchum

[reddirttown]

Language of Flowers: Swallow-Wort

The flower for today, October 9, in the language of flowers is Swallow-Wort, which signifies curse for heartache. Image above from Wikipedia. Cynanchum is a genus of about 300 species, and is part of the milkweed family. Unfortunately, Swallow-Wort may interfere with monarch butterfly reproduction.The taxon name comes from Greek kynos (meaning “dog”) and anchein (“to choke”), hence the common…

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[poop-me-a-flower]

Cynanchum marnierianum. It’s a super weird plant, long tumbling stems with puny vestigial leaves at the joints. Flowers just as weird as the rest of it, look them up! I got some cuttings from a friend, and they’re rooted and growing for me. Hopefully it’ll thrive with me.

[billionneuronscurious]

Cynanchum sp.

[conspectusargosy]

Cynanchum marnierianum is a strange member of the milkweed family originating in Madagascar. The plant consists entirely of leafless stems, usually more brown than green and largely looking dead. Even in growth it is hard to tell it is healthy. While it's great fun to have pots of dead sticks, the actual flowering of this is more of a treat as the small blooms are unique green cage-like structures. I received my Cynanchum as roughly 6" cuttings, and after a few years and 2-3 feet of growth I finally had a flowering.

[sanitymanatee]

#sunset through succulent vine #Cynanchum

[gamosepalous-5lobed]

Cynanchum acutum

Photographed by: Tamar Galstyan

[gamosepalous-5lobed]

Cynanchum marnierianum

Photographed by: Hildor Hoffmann

[nex3]

I Played cynanchum

when you meet, it is summer, and the insects beneath their skin bristle and swarm at the sight of you: they are sharp and morbid and rotten, and they eat through all the walls you sealed your hate behind

Cynanchum is a game in three parts. Other than the initial fork, each branch is very linear, reading like a long-form poem. The initial branching is an interesting way to present this, giving the player more control over the order they consume the passages than if they were all written out in order. It also helps to separate them conceptually from one another, which helps the player experience them as individual passages and relate them to one another.