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[unaestheticbiostudent]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28598682

My gift for @maxhan1984 for this year’s HgK gift exchange! I hope you like it. Thank you @bentomodachi as usual! It’s really nice to see this little community come together every year and it’s all thanks to you all.

[marinawoznjuksworld]

[unaestheticbiostudent]

I've been trying to stitch some ferns lately and this is gorgeous??? Def gonna try and recreate it sometime

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 22 January 2020

In moist microclimates of the Ethiopian Highland forests were wonderful groups of Cyathea manniana (sheshino, spiky tree fern). The stems of this fern are preferred by local communities for house and fencing construction as they are resistant to termites and decay. The fronds have been used for medicinal treatments. The cylinder in the larger tree is a beehive, the local honey is delicious.

Jill Raggett

[botanyshitposts]

i never realised how weird ferns are

dont make me bring out the sex triangle 

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[unaestheticbiostudent]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22114909

My gift to @cupcake-lovesong for this year’s gift exchange! It’s really simple (it’s more like... a collection of drabbles than a coherent fic) but I hope I was able to write something you’d like to read.

As usual my thanks to @bentomodachi - a Blessing to all of us. 

[shitpostsampler]

My first ever cross stitch! The crystals really hammerer home the importance of double checking your counting lmao!

[chibigaia-art]

When will they let me watch promare in my country............

[botanyshitposts]

my library purchased a new copy of this this year! I’m going to try and convince our collections department that actually, this was a Mistake and it should be weeded immediately but in the meantime, please, i need someone to share my pain (Submitted by exhausted librarian)

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this submission is causing me real physical pain like its literally like getting punched in the gut multiple times. i’m assuming here that this was a conscious choice, because i cannot imagine getting a biology book for kids published with this kind of flagrant mistake.

like not to Go Off but first of all this was a science communicator who decided this was a good way to go about talking about mushrooms and fungi because apparently kids can’t understand that mushrooms are a different thing like plants and animals are different things, and then the publisher agreed that yes, this is good, we can totally heavily imply/outright state that mushrooms are plants by putting them on the front and back cover under the words “a book about plants without flowers” and then further imply/outright state that all plants that dont flower (apparently including mushrooms) fall under the ‘gymnosperm’ label, which by the way is another thing: if we’re assuming that the author did this to try to dumb it down for kids because referring to fungi as ‘not plants’ is too complicated, WHY are they using the ‘gymnosperm’ terminology on the back cover and WHY are they applying that term to all plants that don’t flower?? or are they using it as a specific example of plants that don’t flower, in which case it’s a poorly placed description??? like you gotta choose!!! are you gonna be specific or not!!! 

also not to be Like That but JUST saying this strikes me as an example of like… very poor attention being given to botany and mycology in primary education. if you came to a kid’s publisher with a book that was like, ‘things that don’t walk: animals without legs’ and it had bacteria illustrated all over the cover and the back cover was like ‘WHAT is the squamata reptile family and WHY don’t they have legs’ i DOUBT that would fly lmao 

[ostrichgolashes]

last post of the stuff i found from syundei’s twit and website >:3

[botanyshitposts]

one of the most important things ive learned from upper level biology education so far is that dna isnt the god-like all-powerful beacon of similarity between all living beings on the face of the earth as high school science textbooks will lead u to believe but actually is, in fact, the molecular equivalent of a smoldering dumpster fire that’s in a constant state of chaos and cellular scandal like some highlights: 

-the parts of dna that just casually detach on a physical level from the main strand, do some sick skateboard tricks in the cytoplasm, and land somewhere else with 43552342 copies

-the parts that would do A Thing if they wern’t physically spooled up so tightly that the Make Thing Happen machinery couldnt get to them

-the dna thats in ur mitochondria bc the mitochondria used to be a bacteria that our bigger, buffer cellular ancestors just vored in the primordial ooze 

-the dna that’s in chloroplasts in plants for the same reason

-rna….bitches be crazy like what is she gonna do next?? o she gonna act like a protein now and do shit?? im on the edge of my seat 

-sometimes u just gotta make more chromosomes man like sometimes u just be hanging out and u gotta make ur genome 64 sizes larger and then change ur mind only 100,000 years later and delete half of it and thats just how it is on this bitch of an earth

-random shit from like 5 BCE is just casually left over everywhere like no susan i told u to leave that gene alone we might need it to fight dinosaurs again u just never know!!!!!

dna is earth’s biggest and brightest train wreck and honestly i wouldnt trust a dna molecule to water my plants let alone run my body but here we fucking are 

[melodypictures]

“I want to read a series with a same sex relationship”

  READ SASAKI TO MIYANO

“It has to have humour”

  READ SASAKI TO MIYANO 

“It has to be a healthy relationship with no bad tropes”

  READ SASAKI TO MIYANO

“It has to be a good slow burn”

  READ SASAKI TO MIYANO

  “And good development on both sides”

  READ SASAKI TO MIYANO

PLEASE READ SASAKI TO MIYANO YOU WON’T REGRET IT

[fencer-x]

And supportive side characters

And gorgeous art

And an engaging mangaka who regularly interacts with fans

*AGGRESSIVELY POINTS*

[unaestheticbiostudent]

Literally any non flowering plant: *exists*

Me: sweetie... ur doing a great job... ily so much

[goestoyourhead-deactivated20191]

There are only 2 things that matter in the entire universe

[tasteofsouls-deactivated2020041]

[botanyshitposts]

Have some funky irish lads (submitted by @ash-n-fire)

this is, and i cannot stress this enough, the wildest configuration of the famous common thalloid liverwort species marchantia polymorpha (at least im like….85% sure that’s what it is) ive ever seen. the little weird umbrella-looking things are…..yes, indeed……The Sexy. there are male and female sex umbrellas, with each plant producing only one kind (you won’t find male and female organs on the same plant):

it looks like this one’s a female. girls’ night 

[botanyshitposts]

i never realised how weird ferns are

dont make me bring out the sex triangle 

[botanyshitposts]

this is a scientific depiction of a fern orgy. this is actually a very famous scientific depiction of a fern orgy. it’s describing the relationship between 3 (and eventually many more) different species of ferns in the Asplenium genus, called “the Asplenium triangle”, all of which live to a number of different degrees and areas in the Appalachian mountains. what it’s describing is what’s called the Appalachian spleenwort complex, or Asplenium hybrid complex. this was first developed in the 1970s and was a huge ass big deal in the fern community, and there’s been a ton of other fern complexes and triangles developed just like it. 

to understand the Cursed Mountain Orgy Triangle, we need to throw out the assumption that species can’t fuck other species and have babies. that’s true for some organisms, but in the grand scheme of things it’s definitely not a hard rule; if something is closely related enough to another thing, it can fuck it and have babies. these babies, however, might be sterile (think about breeding a horse and a donkey to get a mule; mules are sterile and can’t have offspring). 

so. let’s break this down. 

okay. so. the edges of the triangle are Asplenium rhizophyllum, Asplenium platyneuron, and Asplenium montanum. these are three separate species that can fuck and make offspring, but the offspring is sterile. Asplenium rhizophyllum and Asplenium montanum are theorized to produce a sterile hybrid, but the offspring has never been formally collected. Asplenium montanum and Asplenium platyneuron can fuck, and the sterile hybrids have been collected before but don’t seem to be very common. Finally, Asplenium rhizophyllum and Asplenium platyneuron can fuck, which produces a very common sterile hybrid called Asplenium x ebenoides, or Scott’s spleenwort. and that was it and everyone was happy with their orgy choices and lived in the woods the end

….except its not the end. because ferns fuck a lot. and genetic mutations pop up. and sometimes, a mutation comes along and instead of producing a sterile hybrid, the genome of the offspring doubles and creates another, fertile mutant of the two parents. so the triangle actually looks like this: 

the Asplenium rhizophyllum x platyneuron cross doubles to make Asplenium tutwilerae, the Asplenium rhizophyllum x montanum cross doubles to make Asplenium innatifidum, and the Asplenium montanum x platyneuron cross doubles to make Asplenium bradleyi. and THEN everyone was happy with their orgy choices and lived in the woods the end

just kidding, this isnt depicted on the original triangle diagram but we now know that bc the mutants are fertile they can go hog wild

im not going to write out all these hybrids. u can find them in chart form on the entire wikipedia article dedicated to asplenium crosses. also some of these plants can cross with other ferns outside the initial orgy zone and make new orgies. im not putting those in because i would die.

edit: it’s not a x2 genome mutation that makes the process of allotetraploidy, its a x4 mutation, which really doesnt make it much better

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