#luzula

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Monday 28 April 2025

In this woodland was a beautiful group of Luzula sylvatica (great wood-rush, shadow grass, wood grass). This clump-forming perennial grass has hair-edged leaves with arching, airy panicles of brown flowers above the foliage.

Jill Raggett

[ifelten]

Skråstregbredpande (Thymelicus sylvestris)

Small skipper (Thymelicus sylvestris)

[hexenmeisterer]

due south fic rec

Luzula’s Leaving Home is a lovingly-detailed, emotionally & politically intelligent Benton Fraser coming-of-age story. It paints in the particulars of his youth-- the ways he is defined by the land, his family, and his community. 

it yields such beautiful insight into Benton's internal mental and emotional processes

it does this by grounding them into the physical world he lives in. The silt in the water, the sugar in the jam, the traveling library, the species of lichen, the Chainsaw Facts. Leaving Home cares about the details in the same way Benton does. 

it also brings into focus the tension/betrayal inherent in Benton being in community with Inuit and Tsimshian people and deciding to join the RCMP.

again through grounding it in specific details: those of his relationship with Eric Kitikmeot, and also of life in the north with its economic/historical/political realities.

It's a story that's about leaving home, so, you know, expect poignancy.

It only has 9 kudos, so I’m guessing it’s not one you’ve read before! I left an absolute novel of a comment on the story, so if you want all the spoilers you can read it here. (@inconclusionray I quoted your super smart comment on @hadespuppy‘s story Ride Forever because it was hella relevant) (If you decide to read the next stories in the series, you should know that the series is an abandoned WIP. However, this does not affect the complete-feeling of the first story. And my thoughts upon getting to the end of the short/abandoned third one were not “wtf abandonment,” but “damn, I am so grateful this exists up to this point.”)

[drhoz]

#2314 - Luzula sp - Woodrush

Growing among at least three different species of moss, high on Ruapehu. Probably L. banksiana but that's not the only Luzula known from Mt. Ruapehu.

A cosmopolitan genus of rush, most common in temperate areas, the temperate regions, the Arctic, and alpine areas in the tropics.

It's not certain where the generic name came from - possibilities include the Italian lucciola ("to shine, sparkle") or the Latin luzulae or luxulae, from lux ("light"), apparently because they with dew. but other definitions of lucciola include 'a mid-summer field', or 'a small place'.

Mt. Ruapehu, North Island Volcanic Plateau, New Zealand

[botanytoo]

Holokinetic chromosomes beat selfish centromeres In eukaryotic lineages with monocentric chromosomes, centromeres and centromeric histone H3 (CENH3) undergo a recurrent evolutionary conflict, whereby selfish centromeres subvert female meiosis, and CENH3 evolves adaptively to counterbalance the deleterious consequences of centromere drive.

[werewolves-are-real]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Fic rec! Laurence visiting St. Helena. And Napoleon. Yes.