#noxtheox

[exclamaquest]

keep seeing you tag things as junkeon and thinking they added a new eeveeloution

junkeon: the tequila and divorce pokemon

[botanyshitposts]

are lily pads particularly basal to the angiosperms? I'm pretty well up on my metazoan taxonomy but I gotta admit I know next to nothing about plant taxonomy

well, there are actually multiple families basal to all flowering plants; they’re referred to as being ‘ANITA grade’ or ‘ANA grade’, standing for the orders (and i’m gonna link their wikipedia pages here for Strange Plant Enjoyment) Amborellales, Nymphaeales, and Austrobaileyales. the ‘ANITA’ acronym refers to the first three plus the (supposed) order Illiciales and the family Trimeniaceae; their positioning in this is a bit spicy and contested as i take it, though, so i should note that the first three are the major ones, with most of the plants we call ‘lily pads’ resting in the Nymphaeales. 

BUT. fun fact that got me a bit riled up when i first learned about it last month: ‘lily pads’ as a concept have apparently evolved a couple times in flowering plants, so the order Nymphaeales (containing the traditional lily pad family Nymphaeaceae as well as a couple other non-lily pad aquatic plant families) is a basal group, but Nelumbonaceae-- the family that consists of the two species of sacred lotus that are out there-- is not (instead it belongs to the order Proteales; this was only figured out in the past couple decades with the innovation of molecular research). 

anyway. that aside, yeah, these guys are pretty prehistoric. like idk why i’m so impressed with how innovative ‘hm....leaf float’ as an idea ended up being, but i am; that being said, like, the flowers on these are one of those plant things where upon further inspection it’s like.......oh man this is definitely a dinosaur plant. like look at this thing

you may be wondering why she is like this. the answer is that she has specially evolved to heat up and open/close in a ploy to trap beetles overnight for Sex Purposes:

like. i cannot believe the guy narrating this video is so calm. like @ national geographic those beetles are in hell and all you people can think about is dubbing it with tranquil spa music 

[beesmygod]

how do you feel about bugsnax taking your ideas about eating pokemon

it only validates my belief that i have great ideas and am a genius

[infiniteedge]

that udon lookin fresh as hell, man

Thank u

[scope-dogg]

what's good homeboy

Fatty

[larkstonguesinaspicpart1]

I dont doubt the cheese conspiracy, but you also gotta factor in the fact that cheese pulls are fucking moneymakers for some reason

okay yeah that’s probably a factor too 

[cheaphalloweencostume]

For dice superstitions, I always set mine out on the table with the ones facing up, so the luck will drain onto the highest numbered face

genuis... im trying this next time

[horticulturalcephalopod]

really cool, really cool (but in all seriousness I think the first time I ever saw your art it was in a wild west wednesdays thread like a million years ago and I didn't realize that it was you till pretty recently and thats😎👍👍👍 cool)

past me: i love cowboys

present me: I STILL LOVE COWBOYS