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#plants

Karen Layne
2 hours ago

A friend of mine and I had gone antique/second-hand shopping, and I saw this trifle bowl in one of the shops we visited. I told her that it would be perfect for a terrarium. She went back and got it and had this made for me. I love it! #terrarium #TinyThings #plants

A small trifle bowl planted with moss, Purple Heart, and a couple of other green plants, one with more broad leaves and one fern like, on a substrate of pebbles and coarse soil. There are tiny ceramic mushrooms on the moss.
Claudia Zahn
8 hours ago
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Claudia Zahn
8 hours ago

The Red Pierrot ( Talicada nyseus nyseus )
Photo: @rajesh_kumar_photography
By #NatureAndAnimals
#NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photographer

Flipboard Science Desk
9 hours ago

For 100 years, it was believed that those little “water balloons” on plants protected against dangers like drought and salt. We were wrong. Science Alert explains: https://flip.it/Nj8qPy
#Science #Plants #Botany

If Holly (Ilex aquifolium) finds its leaves are being nibbled by deer, it switches genes on to make them spiky when they regrow. So on taller Holly trees, the upper leaves (which are out of reach) have smooth edges, while the lower leaves are prickly. https://www.allforgardening.com/698586/if-holly-ilex-aquifolium-finds-its-leaves-are-being-nibbled-by-deer-it-switches-genes-on-to-make-them-spiky-when-they-regrow-so-on-taller-holly-trees-the-upper-leaves-which-are-out-of-reach-hav/

#plants

If Holly (Ilex aquifolium) finds its leaves are being nibbled by deer, it switches genes on to make them spiky when they regrow. So on taller Holly trees, the upper leaves (which are out of reach) have smooth edges, while the lower leaves are prickly.
Finner
16 hours ago

My #pothos clippings have been going crazy shooting new leaves up, but they ain't really growing longer yet. I guess #hydroponics is my path to a green thumb, because I've never had much luck keeping plants in dirt healthy.

#plants #houseplants

Bright green Pothos clippings in a mason jar of clay balls, sitting on a counter top. A brick wall and shaded window behind.
Gary E. Walker
16 hours ago

Gasteria batesiana var. Okavango.
#Florespondence #succulents #plantstodon #Plants

A small string of trumpet shaped peach and green flowers.
Bose-Einstein-Kondensat
16 hours ago

#BIBLOX: A #3Dprinted #OpenHardware bench-top Dark-Root device (DRD) built with #LEGO bricks enables a non-invasive #plant #root development analysis in #soil conditions mirroring nature:
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1166511
#DIYbio #lab #instruments #plants

The Wee Owl Studio
20 hours ago

I have two small drawings of houseplants available. They are both originals for just £35 each with free potage to UK locations. Great little gift ideas...
https://theweeowlstudio.etsy.com/listing/1475777633
or you can search for 'TheWeeOwlStudio' on Etsy.
#FediGiftShop #ScottishArtist #MastoArt #CreativeToots #plants #Houseplants #cactus #drawing #GiftIdeas

Original mixed media drawings - Cactus and Succulents
A collection of original drawings of cactus and succulent plants.  This one is a barrel cactus.
Materials: acid free buff coloured paper, mixed media
Width: 5 inches
Height: 5 inches
Bjorn Idle
1 day ago

Three-Cornered Garlic (allium triquetrum) down by the river in the Spring. It's not native to Aotearoa but I can still enjoy its beauty.

Edit: wrong ID - sorry!

#BloomScrolling #Flowers #Florespondence #Plants

Closeup of a cluster of white bell-shaped flowers with a dark green stripe down the centre of each petal, all in soft focus. They're turned outward and down, against a background of other such clusters out of focus behind
Nature Globe
1 day ago

Rescuing a Calathea musaica Plant

I rescued my Calathea musaica (also called Calathea Network) since it had to fight with some problems lately: sun burned leaves, trouble with flies and root-bounded. Have a look what I have done!

#calatheamusaica #calathea #plantcare #plantproblems #plants

Feralasar
1 day ago

Pixel cacti I just made not to long ago for the front page of my neocities site.

here it is in action here: https://feralasar.neocities.org/Frontpage/frontpage

#neocities #pixel #pixelart #cacti #plants #FeralAsar #cactus #western

Rudie V.
1 day ago

Agave lophantha 'Splendida', a more cold hardy variety that can be grown in zone 7 (if given good drainage). #plants

An agave with upward-pointing, sharply serrated leaf blades, medium green with a light green stripe down the middle
Chris Rosenau
1 day ago

The Cuetlaxochime native to Mexico, originally had nothing to do with Christianity or Christmas, they are sacred plants used in ceremonies to celebrate the birth of Huitzilopochtli during the winter solstices. Also used for medicinal and healing purposes to cure sicknesses, aid the flow of breast milk, as well as for dyeing fabrics.

Pronunciation: Kwetla・so-cheetl

#Indigenous #plants #Mexico

Tilondrion
2 days ago

My flat got a lot greener today. My brother came over and we went shopping for some plants. It's great to have a gardener as brother.
#plants #green

Farhad
2 days ago

Today's #parsley harvest from the indoor hydroponic


They were getting too tall and blocking the light for the ones in the back, so I trimmed the 14 plants I have in one of #IKEA #Växer units by the balcony door to dry them for later

I love the smell of fresh parsley and eat the stems as snack. They are so juicy and delicious.

#Gardening #BalconyGarden #ContainerGarden #France #Hydroponics #GrowYourOwn #Plants

fresh cut parsley from indoor hydroponic unit
Bryan Wright
2 days ago

A beech leaf in dappled light.

#plants #trees #sunlight #photography

A large  brown leaf fills most of the image, hanging down from upper left to lower right. We see its underside. A ridge runs down the leaf's centerline, and diagonal veins shoot out from it, alternating left and right, toward the leaf's edges. It's a classic leaf shape, tried and true, but we could also imagine that we're looking at some ediacaran animal crawling along the sea floor. The veins form a stack of arrows pointing in the direction of the creature's travel.

The leaf's margin is wavy and a little dog-eared, curling up like the pages of a well-loved book. Dark blurs with specks of light fill the background, but the leaf is lit by sof warm sunlight.
Tradescantia Hub
2 days ago

Some more frost damage updates, after several nights with sustained lows of -5C.

T. spathacea and T. cerinthoides are totally destroyed. Continental Group mostly gone but a couple of surprise survivors. T. fluminensis, T. chrysophylla, and T. mundula have all taken significant damage but all have at least some surviving stems!

#plants #gardening #houseplants @plants

Tray with a couple of T. spathacea plants, leaves blackened and wilting from frost damage.
Tray of T. cerinthoides plants, all melted and brown from frost damage.
Tray of tradescantias, most of the plants are completely wilted and melting, but one looks completely normal.
Tray of tradescantias, all the plants have some wilted brown stems but some that are still brightly-coloured and healthy.
Julie Howlin
2 days ago

There are about ten species of ivy, including English Ivy, Irish Ivy, Persian Ivy and Japanese Ivy. Ground Ivy, Boston Ivy and poison ivy are not related to the true ivies.

Because today is the Day of Ivy in the French Revolutionary Calendar, and because Christmas is coming, 10 things you didn't know about Ivy.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2015/12/8th-december-ivy.html

#Ivy #Facts #Plants #Christmas #FrenchRevolutionaryCalendar

DeeAnn Little
2 days ago

I have a dormancy question. This is the first one for my one year old Venus Flytraps from seed. I seeded them *way* to close together (I know better now). I know the best time for separating them out is during the dormancy period, though when is the best time? Is it now when they are dormant for about a month or so with some green on them still or later closer to spring. If the latter do I just move the roots and rhizome?

#carnivorousplants #savagegarden #florespondence #plants @plants

Dormant one year old Venus Flytraps in a white pot.
The Wee Owl Studio
3 days ago

I have two small drawings of houseplants available. They are both originals for just £35 each with free potage to UK locations. Great little gift ideas...
https://theweeowlstudio.etsy.com/listing/1475777633
or you can search for 'TheWeeOwlStudio' on Etsy.
#FediGiftShop #ScottishArtist #MastoArt #CreativeToots #plants #Houseplants #cactus #succulents #drawing

Original mixed media drawings - Cactus and Succulents
A collection of original drawings of cactus and succulent plants.  This one is a snake plant. 
Materials: acid free buff coloured paper, mixed media
Width: 5 inches
Height: 5 inches
PLOS Biology
3 days ago

#TopologicalDataAnalysis shows how #GeneExpression shaped the form & function of flowering #plants over 125 million years of #evolution, providing a novel way to explore complex biological data. #dataviz @bob_vanburen &co in #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/4actz9N

James Akers
3 days ago

A game from the Puerto Vallarta Botanical gardens- name that plant! Answers to most of them can be found in the alt text but you are welcome to come up with your own names too.

The jungle! I only got eaten by a few mosquitoes while following peacocks up their hill. Beautiful temps in December- What a place!

Now I just gotta make it to the Brooklyn Botanical garden!

#travel #plants #succulent #mexico #garden #botanical #quiz #name #plant #puertovallarta

Cola de Burro- or Burrito Donkey's tail- native to Mexico.
I didn't catch this ones name, but love it's fuzzy cactus hanging
A "Royal Palm" on the left with the chunky trunk and super leafy leaves with what I call a "regular palm" on the right.
A vanilla plant. They grow on these wooden posts about a meter high. A hurricane that came through 2 months ago killed many of their plants- and the bees that pollinate them. It will take a few years to recover.
KarinWanderer
3 days ago

It has been about 8 weeks since I put Foggy in the funky vase. What should I grow in the vase next?
Vote in my poll https://mastodon.art/@KarinWanderer/111535802695876620

Foggy, Avocado at Aww, is getting too big for his vase! He's top heavy & the roots don't have any traction in the vase, so the slightest breeze pushes him askew. I’m going to have to move him into a pot this weekend.🌱
Want to see more? #WIPFoggy

#Avocado #Plants #GardeningMastodon #UrbanGardening #GardeningFeed #Gardening

Photo of the top of an avocado sapling. Four impressive leaves are open at the top.
Photo of an avocado sapling growing in a clear glass vase. The seed has a network of roots & a stem with four leaves sprouting at the top
Photo of avocado roots growing in a clear glass vase. There are 2 long roots with many, many rootlets. The rootlets are growing rootlets of their own.
KarinWanderer
3 days ago

Foggy Nelson, Avocado at Aww, will be transplanted from the funky vase to a proper pot this weekend- with dirt & everything!

What should I plant in the funky vase next?

It needs to be large enough to stay in the top of the vase & able to root in water.
Want to see what I'm talking about? #WIPFoggy

#Avocado #Plants #GardeningMastodon #UrbanGardening #GardeningFeed #Gardening

Claudia Zahn
3 days ago

A Crimson Sunbird female having a bath in the petal of a banana flower.
Photo by: @rahulsinghclicks
By #NatureAndAnimals
#NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photographer

Lukas VF Novak
3 days ago

Study reshapes understanding of mass #extinction in Late Devonian era
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-reshapes-mass-extinction-late-devonian.html

The expansion of #LandPlants during the Late #Devonian contributed to the marine #MassExtinction https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01087-8

"Diverse and full of #SeaLife, the Earth's Devonian era—taking place more than 370 million years ago—saw the emergence of the first seed-bearing #plants, which spread as large #forests across the #continents of #Gondwana and #Laurussia."

Global map of late devonian Earth showing positions of continents

How does a pinecone grow into a pine tree? 🤔

It’s all about the reproductive process of gymnosperms. This Boxlapse #timelapse #video depicts the gradual opening of a female pinecone to disperse seeds under warm and dry conditions. 🌰🌱🌲

👉 Watch it: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/pinecone-to-pine-tree-timelapse

#Biology #nature #trees #plants #science

A pinecone to pine tree time-lapse
Farhad
4 days ago

Finally harvested my experimental radish in 2L water bottle.


It had a small baby radish growing outside the mesh cups. Tasted good. Ate it with dinner. Starting a new one now.

#Gardening #BalconyGarden #ContainerGarden #Hydroponics #GrowYourOwn #Plants #Radish

single radish I grew as an experiment in a 2L milk bottle grew in a funny shape and had a baby radish outside the mesh cupm
the radish after I cut it out of the cup and cleaned up the vermiculite.
Deus
4 days ago
A local car cleaner's break hut that's decorated with colorful bottles and some money plants.
Claudia Zahn
4 days ago

A kingfisher diving for a minnow up in Scotland.
Photo by: @andyfarrerphoto
By #ExoticBirds
#NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photographer

Tattooed_Mummy
5 days ago

Poisons Used in Agatha Christie's Mystery Novels - Owlcation

People should read more Agatha Christie

#poisons #plants #yew

https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Poisons-of-Agatha-Christe

Bjorn Idle
5 days ago

I love the fluffy back of a Marlborough Rock Daisy (Pachystegia insignis) after it's dropped its petals 😆

#BloomScrolling #MacroPhotography #Flowers #Plants #Nature #NaturePhotography

A thick expired flower head, seen from behind as it leans forward and to the side. The front of the flower is covered in a thick forest of thick, upright golden strands. The side is a series of rows of dried gray triangular shapes, becoming increasingly covered in soft tiny hairs. Behind these are overlapping thick round tendrils, also covered in fluff.
J blue
5 days ago

Swingle citrumelo

Traded homemade muffins for a bunch of these fruit. It’s a hybrid between trifoliate orange and Duncan grapefruit and can be used as a lemon substitute - it supposedly can grow in zone 7 so might be more convenient for northern growers rather than bring a 🍋 tree indoors.

Watered and sweetened to lemonade, you can definitely taste hints of grapefruit.

#gardening #jardin #GrowYourOwn #plants #plantas @plants #permaculture #citrus #fruit #cooking #food

A round yellow fruit that is slightly pointed at the green stem. It is laying on a wooden countertop. It is smaller and rounder than a standard grapefruit.
Claudia Zahn
6 days ago

This is one of the most beautiful moths in the world (Chlorhoda thoracica)
Photo by: @junglediamonds
By #NatureAndAnimals
#NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photographer

Bjorn Idle
6 days ago

Waxy-looking flowers of Kalmia latifolia. They remind me of parasols, or 1960s dresses perhaps...

#BloomScrolling #MacroPhotography #Flowers #Florespondence #Plants #Kalmia

Closeup of a cluster of round pink flowers with white and darker-pink flanged ring patterns on them. There are a number of unopened buds, which are darker pink again, and shaped like little stars, or the heads of some kind of cone-shaped drill bit.
beSpacific
6 days ago

#Plants can’t be expected to do all the heavy lifting - Using realistic #ecological #modeling scientists found globe’s #vegetation could actually b taking on about 20% more of #CO2 humans have pumped into #atmosphere & will continue to do so through to the end of century. “What we found is that a well-established #climatemodel used to feed into #global #climateassessments predicts stronger sustained #carbonuptake until the end of #21stcentury https://newatlas.com/biology/plants-absorb-more-co2/

mk30
1 week ago

me, earlier this year at the garfield park conservatory in chicago ^-^

it's a wonderful conservatory and i encourage people to visit for sure: https://garfieldconservatory.org/

#plants #chicago

a lady in a sumer dress looking at some plants in the garfield park conservatory in chicago.
mk30
1 week ago

can you identify the plants for sale at this farmers' market in the puna district of hawai'i island?

hint: they are all food plants.

(bonus pic of the 'free seeds' box because plants are all about abundance, amirite? ^-^)

#plants @plants #gardening #TropicalAg #tropical #garden

a small variety of plants for sale at a market on hawai'i island.
closeup on one of the plants for sale.
closeup of another one of the plants for sale at the farmers' market.
"free seeds" box!
Johann Grimm-Rey
1 week ago

🚩Jardin des Barthes, Landes, France.
18th June 2023.

🩷 Silk Tree
💜 Fringed iris
💛 Golden lotus banana
💛 Unknown plant

:cc_cc: :cc_by: :cc_nc_eu: :cc_nd:

#Garden #Plants #Macro #CloseUp #DSLR #Landes #Floral #SilkTree #FringedIris #GoldenLotusBanana

Flower and buds of silk tree, close-up
Light purple fringed iris flower, close-up
Golden lotus banana pseudostem, close-up
Unknown yellow plant buds, close-up
Mandy Watson
1 week ago

And just like that... it's #winter! Very rare for us in North-East England to get autumn foliage AND snow AND sun in the same shot. Fitting for the first day of meteorological winter. Cotinus (smoke bush) and eucalyptus backed by the beech hedge and a whitebeam in snow on a sunny morning.

#gardening #gardens #plants #snow #Cotinus #Eucalyptus #whitebeam #beech #sun #coldweather #bloomscrolling #fall #autumn #northeastengland #geordies

Cotinus (smoke bush) and eucalyptus backed by the beech hedge and a whitebeam in snow on a sunny morning.
Bjorn Idle
1 week ago

Closeup of the lower part of a kniphofia (aka red hot poker...even if it's yellow) flower.

I like the patterning of the rows of the individual blooms.

Vertical pic

#BloomScrolling #Flowers #Florespondence #Plants #MacroPhotography #Kniphofia #RedHotPoker

#MacroPhotography

Closeup of a wall of yellow flowers in slightly curving rows. The lower ones are fully open, with stamens extended, the upper ones, a little greener in colour, just starting to open and push outward
Megan Fox
1 week ago

Yo #plants / #gardening Masto, what should I do with this overgrown aloe I inherited?

It seems happy. A piece broke off and now that's happily rooted in another pot. Do I just leave it? Do I gotta split it or it'll die? Do succulents get root bound like other plants?

I don't really want another aloe plant, I'd like for this to just. You know. Not take over, heh. Do I just trim it back maybe? Break bits off? It seems very prone to having bits break off, guess that's how succulents do?

Very large aloe plant
Claudia Zahn
1 week ago

Big tongue flick from this Gila monster when he visited Dillon Heyne. Gilas are always a fun time to photograph because they have so much personality
By #NathanJordanPotography
#NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photographer

Bjorn Idle
2 weeks ago

A little almost-collage of a few lovely things:

* Hebe flower cluster just about to explode
* Bearded Iris. I love irises...
* Red echium that the bees love
* Rhodohypoxis - a cute little alpine

#BloomScrolling #Flowers #Plants #Florespondence #Gardening #MacroPhotography #Hebe #Iris #Echium #Rhodohypoxis

Closeup of a cluster of dark pink buds of a hebe, all showing colour but not yet opened. They look like a pink firework exploding
Closeup of a peach-coloured bearded iris flower, with yellow and white markings on the falls and dark yellow "beard"
Closeup view of the small flowers of a bright red echium. Each flower sits on a stem with numerous others, and together the stems form a large (over 1 metre-long) flower spike. On the same stem as each flower, other flowers are budded up but not yet open. Occasionally a long thin leaf pokes through between the flowers
Closeup, head-on, picture of a white, waxy-looking flower. It is formed of two 3-petalled stars offset to each other. The base of each petals is a deep pink colour
Bjorn Idle
2 weeks ago

With a name like "hellroot" (amongst others), you'd expect this Orobanche minor to be really poisonous or something.

In truth, it's a parasite that has lost the ability to photosynthesize, attaching itself to another plant and stealing water and nutrients from it.

Quite pretty, in a hairy, slightly ominous way...

Vertical pic

#BloomScrolling #Florespondence #Plants #MacroPhotography #Hellroot #Orobanche

Closeup of a hairy flower spike comprised of pink, darkly veined flowers with white tips. Hairs grow from all over the petals, and from the brown needle-like leaves that grow in between each flower.

Some more #BadArt sillyness.
I did this last month, but things have been a bit busy round here, so am slowly catching up with posting.

#MastoArt #plants #Painting

A colourful watercolour pencil drawing of plants. The leaves are long and snakey looking,  in many shades of green , all twined together.
Markus Feilner :verified:
2 weeks ago

#photography #plants anybody knows what this is? Seen last week on some island off the coast of Provence...

Bjorn Idle
2 weeks ago
Closeup of the flowering head of an aloe plant. It has formed a wide, currently flat-topped cluster of orange flower buds, each with purple and red stripes down its tip. At the very centre it looks like one of the flowers may have partially opened, facing directly upward - which is a little odd as they usually flower facing downward, and starting from the rim of the cluster and working inward