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Opisthoncus sp. on Asplenium sp.

31-OCT-2025

Kings Domain, Melbourne, Vic

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Before I crash for the night…

Pretty butterfly and flowers

Busy Times on a Cactus Flower

Momentos ajetreados en una flor de cactus

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Volunteers, organized by landscape architecture firm Terremoto, clear invasive plants and restore native fauna: ‘It’s a years-long relations

Volunteers plant native species in parks throughout California in an effort to restore biodiversity and slow the spread of wildfire.

Test Plot, a project launched in 2019 by the landscape architecture firm Terremoto, has built eight plots in Elysian Park alone. On a recent Friday morning, volunteers were pulling out invasive grass and black mustard to make room for wildflowers and other drought-resistant, native species.

This garden is a response to a challenge vexing parks departments across the American west: how to adapt to a changing climate with limited resources?

In southern California, native flora tends to tolerate drought, making it more resistant to wildfire. By contrast, many invasive species tend to dry up, becoming kindling during wildfires, which have become more frequent and severe in recent years as the planet heats up.

‘In Los Angeles, we see a lot of people fleeing the film and TV industry, which is struggling right now, and finding purpose in care and stewardship,’ Jones said. ‘It gives you a place to put your energy.’

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This weeks microscopy features Ranunculus victoriensis, aka the Victorian buttercup. This species is a Victorian endemic found on the Bogong High Plains, and is listed as Endangered. They have very typical buttercup flowers that are a bright and glossy yellow. They have numerous stamen arranged circularly around a head of numerous carpels.

And here's a closeup of those carpels. The tip of the stigma has a lot of texture to it!

And now the anthers, absolutely covered in pollen. Pollen of this species (maybe all Ranunculus, I'm not sure) is spherical and pretty smooth.

And a cheeky cross-section, so that you can see how each carpel is free from one another. :) Plus the big ovule inside that'll go on to become a seed!