#botany
It is late November in #Ottawa and we still have #flowers out!
- Rhamphospermum arvense, charlock mustard, field mustard, wild mustard, or just charlock
https://spacey.space/@OrbitalGardens/113436610286469791 OrbitalGardens@spacey.space - Japan has launched the first wooden satellite into space, new plant experiments have just arrived at the International Space Station, Hungarian scientists have been growing mustard plants on simulated lunar regolith, and there's a huge buzz around plants that grow in the dark!
Those are just a few of the stories you'll find in this week's Gardeners of the Galaxy Mission Report.
https://emmadoughty.substack.com/p/gardeners-of-the-galaxy-mission-report-11b
https://fosstodon.org/@elaterite/113409482410950598 elaterite@fosstodon.org - These are Washingtonia fillifera (desert fan palm). They are the only native palm in the US desert Southwest. All of the palm trees seen in cities are non-native cultivars. There's only a handful of sites where W. fullifera survive. This grove is near the Arizona / Calif border in the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. Sadly, I didn't have time to climb up into the canyon where the palms are. I had to make haste to get to the Grand Canyon to photograph the comet!
https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/113028442726660463 plazi_species@mastodon.green - #NewSpecies
Alkanna assadii
A newly discovered boraginaceae from #iran!
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BF87F4-DA61-F848-6B9C-5E91FEE4FBD5
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.653.3.6
#Phytotaxa #AlkannaAssadii
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #ecology #taxonomy #nature #biodiversity #conservation #botany #wildflowers #flowers #wildplants #plants #wildlife #boraginaceae
https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/112812706494218370 plazi_species@mastodon.green - #NewSpecies
Turraea sambiranensis
A newly discovered Meliaceae from #madagascar!
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/160287FD-E362-312E-8B78-1CEBFCB4FB09
Publication: http://doi.org/10.5252/adansonia2024v46a11
#Adansonia #TurraeaSambiranensis
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #ecology #taxonomy #nature #biodiversity #conservation #botany #wildflowers #flowers #wildplants #plants #wildlife #meliaceae
https://toot.wales/@petersketch/112588254959740842 petersketch@toot.wales - I had a really, really bad day on Thursday. And then when I got home I found the Fox-and-Cubs which takes over my front yard at this time of year had flowered for the first time and suddenly things weren't so bad. #WildflowerHour #Swindon #Wiltshire #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography
A little 'spring cleaning' today, trying to thin the pond of digital dwellers in my photo files, to make space.
I came across this, suitable for the very wet day today (U.S. Memoriial Day)
Above is a pitcher plant.
Koi (carp) are gathered nearby. (Selby Gardens, FL)
Fish pic is on Flickr, where there is a huge collection which remained over the years my huge Google+ collection was alive.
#myphotos #fenfotos #carp #koi #fish #botany #botanical #gardens #Selby #Florida
Fritillaria pyrenaica L., 1753 / Liliaceae
Nom(s) français: Fritillaire des Pyrénées, Fritillaire noire
English: Pyrenean fritillary
Italiano: Fritillaria dei pirenei
#botanique #botany #botanik #fleur #bloemen #plantes #plants #planten #nature #fritillaria #liliaceae
https://mstdn.ca/@3DBill/112264527317629714 3DBill@mstdn.ca - There are a couple of places in Strathcona, #Vancouver BC, where the #sakura (#Prunus) trees meet in an arch over the streets. The pink one is 'Kanzan', the white one is where the root stock of an old tree has overtaken the graft stock and grown into a tree in its own right.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
Apropos of nothing, I offer this presentation that my MIL did earlier this year. It has to do with inter communication between trees, fungi, and other plants.
It's fairly technical, but pretty informative. If you have an hour to spare, give it a listen
#Botany #WoodWideWeb #Nature #Trees
Trees Talk To Each Other??
#Bonne-Nuit
très grande Hampe florale et inflorescence d'Agave
#Photo #Agave #HampeFlorale #Inflorescence #fleurs #Flowers #Plantes #Botanique #Jaime #Flower-stalk #Plants #Botany
I have another Bluesky invite code for the #nature, #botany & #gardening bubble. Please comment or message.
#plants #botany #woodbine #honeysuckle
HONEYSUCKLE.—The Honeysuckle, or Woodbine (Lonicera), is so called on account of the honey-dew found so plentifully on its foliage. Originally, the word Honeysuckle was applied to the Meadow Clover (Trifolium pratense), which is still so called in the Western Counties. French Honeysuckle (Hedysarum coronarium) is a foreign forage-plant.
- Caprifolium, a specific name of the Honeysuckle, was poetically used by old botanists because the leaf, or rather the stem, climbs over high places where goats fear not to tread: hence the plant is sometimes called by country folks, Goat’s-leaf. One of its French names, also, is Chèvrefeuille, which country patois abbreviates to Cherfeu, or Dear Flame: hence the plant is presented by ardent lovers to their sweethearts as an intimation of the state of their affections.
- The French are fond of planting Honeysuckle in their cemeteries, and Alphonse Karr describes it as a plant which seems to devote itself to the tomb, the most magnificent bushes being found in cemeteries. He further says: “There is a perfume more exciting, more religious, even than that of incense; it is that of the Honeysuckles which grow over tombs upon which Grass has sprung up thick and tufted with them, as quickly as forgetfulness has taken possession of the hearts of the survivors.”
- In olden times, consumptive invalids, or children suffering from hectic fever, were thrice passed through a circular wreath of Woodbine, cut during the increase of the March moon, and let down over the body from head to foot. We read of a sorceress, who healed sundry women, by taking a garland of green Woodbine, and causing the patient to pass thrice through it: afterwards the garland was cut in nine pieces, and cast into the fire.
- Woodbine appears to have been a favourite remedy with Scotch witches, who, in effecting magical cures passed their patients (generally) nine times through a girth or garland of green Woodbine.
- In Lower Germany, the Honeysuckle is called Albranke, the witch snare.
