#frumpytaco

[rudebisco]

Saw these cute crustose coralline recruits the other day and thought of you! Tegula for scale; they were all 2 cm diameter or less, and relatively high up compared to everything else. (San Mateo county, CA)

ahhhh omg!! so pretty i ADORE how swirly they are. ok so im not especially familiar with exactly what's in california but i'm reasonably confident that this is a Corallina sp., most likely Corallina vancouveriensis!

you can see a few tinyyyy little baby uprights (only a couple of intergenicula long each) in a few places, but especially in the crusts at the very bottom right. the shape of the intergenicula makes me think corallina. that and the general crust morphology - i feel like the basal crusts of corallinas often kind of look like very thin crusticorallinas, they're like mostly quite flat but with a lot of texture and a white outer margin

the fact that it was decently high in the intertidal makes me think it's cor van, which, at least around here and im pretty sure also just generally across its range, tends to be one of the highest growing corallines

absolutely gorgeous, thank you for sharing!!

[botaniqueer]

frumpytaco replied to your photoset “Citrus beebs! The first two are yuzu (Citrus junos) and the last one...”

I bet you could use the leaves in cooking like Thai lime leaves!

Oooh yeah!! I really think we should explicitly make a Citrus where we select for leaf fragrance. Esp since fruits take a while and if you don’t need the juice leaves would be a faster alternative.

Also I just like poking at smelly plants.

[alex-makes-of-the-art]

Bag Margaret:

“Bagræt”: The City of Angels

Rule, architecture, progression, Birth heralded by the ascension of The Tower.

The second daughter of EmPtA pOmPtA, and the most massive of all of the Margarets. Bag Margaret, or “Bagræt” floats freely above the surfaces of Earth and Ploapatopia at her own whim. Originally covered in bizarre and otherworldly iron and clay structures and forms, she now hosts an upside down city of clay and various minerals harvested from the deep sea by her coven, the ɴuɴs*.

One of her abilities is to resize any object at will, granted that she is able to borrow mass from clay in order to conserve energy. Inexplicably, she only uses this ability on hats, which she makes large enough to wear herself.

She is inhabited by the descendants of a population of about 10,000 former members of Mudgement who sought out to escape the tyranny of Moose Margaret in Mudgement in exchange for her own unique but different brand of tyranny; In exchange for The Pact, the citizens to inhabit her were required to wear whichever fancy headwear she dictated that week, while former members of Moose Margaret’s coven were transformed into the ɴuɴs; forms suited for life in the deep sea life in order to mine deep sea raw materials.

*the ɴuɴs have never been observed alive; they suffer explosive decompression when brought up from the deep sea.  

[Original crochet effigy by @frumpytaco]

[rudebisco]

Not a non-academic but also not a phycologist: I think common names are really helpful for getting people interested in organisms since there isn’t so much opaque baggage attached as there is with scientific names, and also because a nice descriptive common name can get people to ask more questions. Like, even tho Desmarestia isn’t a kelp, picking it up on the beach with a nonscientist and calling it “acid kelp” is often enough to get people interested.

yeah, that's my line of thinking too! And Desmarestia/Acid kelp in particular is such a great example because it really tells you something cool about the species (and very important to know if you're collecting lmao)

[monotropauniflora]

frumpytaco replied to your post “I feel so bad for anyone who followed me for like vampire shit that...”

Honestly idr why I followed you like 8 years ago (yipe) but I’ve been enjoying the ride :)

aw thanks :)  (also oh my god 8 years )

[botaniqueer]

frumpytaco replied to your photoset “Eulophia petersii! I forgot for the longest time that xerophytic...”

They’re so sharp! Have you ever touched one?

I have not! :0 I’m surprised that I didn’t poke these guys since I seem to do that with every other plant I find, haha.

(There were those little colonial bromeliads though, and those were super sharp and pointy.)

[botaniqueer]

@frumpytaco replied to your video “The largest of the carambolas! Look at those cute droopy leaflets! I...”

bonsai bonsai bonsai bonsai

That is the plan! :DDD

[botaniqueer]

@frumpytaco replied to your post “Question! Would anyone happen to know how quickly Monstera deliciosa...”

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/1493708/monstera-deliciosa-growth-rate Some of these look like they might be split-leaf philodendrons though. I'm not sure how to tell the difference when they're young and they don't have the leaf windows near the axial vein...

Ahhh thanks! It looks like I should be able to expect lots of growth from mine. It’s been putting out a lot of new leaves lately so I was curious about what it would be like going forward.

It also looks like Split-leaf Philodendron is a common name for Monstera deliciosa! Despite the fact that they aren’t even in the same subfamily as philodendrons. :P (They’re both arums though)