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Paton
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Parody botanist
Plant-related blog: http://pattheplants.blogspot.com
What if they have no symmetry, like the genus Kewa, which have 4½ tepals?
January 5, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Two colour forms of Aristolochia baetica, near Maro in Andalusia, Spain. Growing within a few paces of each other. Also found in south Portugal, Algeria and Morocco. I shot these in 2017.
December 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The Terry Pratchett Estate have announced:

The Roundworld year for 2026 shall be known as [FX Drum Roll]: The Year of the Curious Squid.

Artwork by Discworld artist Paul Kidby.

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December 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
This is copied from tumblr user Nudity and Nerdery, not mine.
October 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The Council workers seem to have sown their wildflower seed packets one at a time, so the yellow rattle was a little overconcentrated in this part. The Dactylorchis is an actual wildflower that has been on this canal towpath for a very long time, 35 years to my knowledge.
October 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Some plants do contrasting colour schemes. Kusagi (Clerodendrum trichotomum) fruits are selected for dispersal by birds. The leaf reflects green & ultraviolet. The persistent calyx reflects red & ultraviolet. The berry absorbs ultraviolet, adding to the reflected blue with more blue fluorescence.
October 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I grew two of the other dragon trees, Dracaena draco from La Gomera and Dracaena draco ssp. caboverdeana but they got too big for my windowsill and I donated them to a local charity-run sort-of botanical garden.
September 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Spot the spider. Asclepias tuberosa far from home in Manchester, UK in 2023.
July 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I am growing the yellow pimpernel. I would have liked the blue one but the wildflower company I bought it from did not have the blue.
June 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
There is a reason nobody recognises those names.
June 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Called Olivilla in Spain - the "little olive". The leaves look a bit like olive leaves. Quite poisonous, not edible at all. Thus called Widow Wail in English. I found it quite difficult to get a good picture because it was very sunny and I am not a photographer just a snapper. Near Nerja, Andalusia.
June 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
May 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Or without the extra full stop, damn its eyes.
May 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Like this. Open the picture and the text should be displayed below it, depending on your device. That text can then be converted to voice, if needed. It can also be used to label things that many might not be interested in, like the correct species, location, date, etc. of a flower in a photo.
May 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
You chose a bumblebee rather than a worker honey bee for your symbol? I wrote a very long article about the symbolism of the bees of Manchester and Salford. It might be of interest to you. To read, not to publish - illustration rights would be complicated.
pattheplants.blogspot.com/2023/10/on-o...
May 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Seen on Tumblr.
April 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I corrected your spelling mistake.
March 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Still the name used on all that oil sold in the UK. I don't know how many people know it means turnip.

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February 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Gulf of Cuba
January 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
January 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Kewa salsoloides (Kewaceae) grown under lights in Manchester, UK. Anybody else grown these (apart from
Kew Gardens obviously)? 2½ petals, very odd. Seed from Ladysmith, South Africa. More photos and info (and Kewa bowkeriana) in my blog article: pattheplants.blogspot.com/2024/01/kewa... #flower
February 6, 2024 at 8:42 PM