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Plant nerd sharing photos of plants I've seen. All photos in original posts mine, unless otherwise stated. Use of photos to train AI slop not permitted.
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pterocarya-botany.bsky.social
Need to post osome of my Frasera caroliniensis photos on here.
scottzona.bsky.social 🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 12d
Frasera is a genus of 15 spp in N. America. In 2024, a 19-year-old plant of F. caroliniensis growing in the NC Bot. Garden bloomed for the first & last time. This species is monocarpic (it flowers & dies). The peculiar greenish flowers have nectaries on the petals. #Gentianaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of an upright stalk bearing whorls of bracts and flowers. The flowers hang down and have 4 lobes. Each lobe has a green spot (a nectary) near its base. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
December 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
pterocarya-botany.bsky.social
First entry for #lexember, from my still to be named conlang.

gigä - (v.) To simmer. Believed to be onomatopoeic, evoking the sounds of food as it simmers over a wood stove.

Yulu amama yotuba sa lüsibä sa ñopocholiba geväqü gigälish.

My grandmother simmered stew with goat, beans and squash.
December 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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friendsofmidway.bsky.social
#Wisdom is back!
The world’s oldest known living banded bird, Mōlī (Laysan albatross) queen, has returned to Kuailhelani (Midway Atoll). #Birds
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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prairiebotanist.com
Apparently parents in my school district are offended that red oaks are monecious--they have both male and female reproductive organs. Wishtree was assigned to all students and their families to read together. #Wishtree #bookbans #oak #Kettlemoraine #Wisconsin #Waukesha
Dear Dousman Families, Back in September, Dousman Elementary and the PTO began communicating their interest in a one-book community read....Copies of the Wishtree were sent home ahead of time so families could decide how and when they wanted to participate. This activity was also planned alongside the school’s book fair to support a strong reading culture in the building. We have since received concerns about the book Wishtree.... As families began reading the book, three concerns were shared with the school or via social media. The first was the way the main character, a tree, introduces itself as biologically male and female. The second was the storyline involving a religious minority family experiencing discrimination. The third was that the tree describes keeping secrets, which some families felt sent a message that was not appropriate for a school wide read. Given the concerns that have been shared, the district is taking the time to look carefully at the book and its use in our schools. We take the concerns that families have raised seriously, and when questions arise about the appropriateness of a book or material, we use our established review process.... Wishtree will move into that formal review process. The outcome may include keeping the book with conditions, limiting its use to specific settings, or removing it as a district resource.... During the review, the book will not be used as a building wide selection.... We view this as an opportunity for the district, the school board, and our community to work together. We appreciate the feedback that families have offered. Families are an essential part of the education process and your input helps us ensure that materials are age appropriate, reflect community expectations, and support a positive learning environment. Thank you for your continued partnership. If you have questions or would like to discuss this further, please reach out. "As families began reading the book, three concerns were shared with the school or via social media. The first was the way the main character, a tree, introduces itself as biologically male and female. The second was the storyline involving a religious minority family experiencing discrimination. The third was that the tree describes keeping secrets, which some families felt sent a message that was not appropriate for a school wide read."
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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volcanologist.bsky.social
DYK, that sepia ink was originally made from squid ink?

DYK, that it is possible to recover the remains of ink from fossil Belemnites?

DYK, that Mary Anning discovered this?

DYK, that you can reconstitute that fossil squid ink and use it to draw?

DYK, this was en vogue in the 19th century?
The Geological Society - Fossil sepia, described 1829
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November 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🌲 How to know the wild flowers: .
New York: Scribner's, 1893..

[Source]
Illustration of a Pipsissewa plant (Chimaphila umbellata) from an 1893 book titled "How to Know the Wild Flowers." The plant features a single slender stem with a small cluster of five-petaled flowers at the top. Below, multiple elongated, lance-shaped leaves with serrated edges grow in a whorled pattern around the stem. The detailed botanical drawing highlights leaf texture and flower structure. The image is a black ink line drawing on a beige background, labeled "Plate XXVII" with the scientific and common names below. The illustration relates to pine habitats as Pipsissewa commonly grows in pine forests.
November 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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inaturalist.bsky.social
Sound on to hear the first ever audio recording of this cicada species' call! You're looking at (and listening to) the lovely Okanagana aurantiaca.

📷 alvarosj on iNaturalist
📍 Mexico
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
November 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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inaturalist.bsky.social
Carnivorous plants, like this *very* pink Pink Sundew (Drosera capillaris), thrive where few other plants can survive — acidic, sandy, and nutrient-deficient bogs and grasslands.

📷 stevemaldonadosilvestrini on iNaturalist
📍 Puerto Rico
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
A pink, spiky-looking plant with several appendages.
November 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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nvolpe.bsky.social
NO WAYYYY! 🤯🤯🤯
Is this the COOLEST stick insect ever?? 💚

This mossy girl (Taraxippus sp.) from Peru was the most incredible phasmid I have ever seen, I could not get over how perfectly camouflaged it was on the mossy trees! 🌳
So in awe of our natural world! 🌿
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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frwildflowers.bsky.social
Calochortus nuttallii, our Nuttall's Mariposa Lily, blooming along the McInnis Canyon Pollock Bench trail. This western slope species ranges from white to lavender to shades of pink like this one #nativeplants

#FallbackFlowers #Fallback to May 11 🌿
Two pink Mariposa Lilies with creamy anthers
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
pterocarya-botany.bsky.social
Gonna repost Lill's fundraiser again.
pterocarya-botany.bsky.social pterocarya-botany.bsky.social @pterocarya-botany.bsky.social · Sep 20
Lill Prosperino was a true legend of our time and someone I deeply care for. Someone who should still be with us. Please help remember them.
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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scottzona.bsky.social
The Trees That Were Saved and Destroyed by the Same Mistake botany.one/2025/11/the-...
"The authors emphasise the importance of taxonomy throughout the conservation process."
The Trees That Were Saved and Destroyed by the Same Mistake
For 20 years, Mexican communities accidentally planted millions of endangered trees, while simultaneously logging thousands in their natural habitat, without knowing it.
botany.one
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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newphyt.bsky.social
Evidence for plastome loss in the holoparasitic Mystropetalaceae

Letter by Yu et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Inflorescences of Dactylanthus taylorii, Hachettea austrocaledonica, and Mystropetalon thomii. These photos were provided by Sebastian (Avi) Holzapfel (photo by David Mudge/Nga Manu), David Bruy and Liewen Lin, respectively.
November 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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joanierotten.bsky.social
Moooooon piiiiiiics
Full moon Full moon a bit bigger
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
pterocarya-botany.bsky.social
Drosera rotundifolia from a bog I visited during my trip to Quebec this past summer. #plants #nativeplants #quebec #plantsky #botany #nature
November 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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frwildflowers.bsky.social
Pediocactus simpsonii, our Mountain Cactus, blooming above Castlewood Canyon #nativeplants

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 1 🌿
Ring of hot pink cactus flowers with numerous yellow-orange anthers
November 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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rwhooster.bsky.social
An additional image of the Brick from last night for #MothFaceFriday.

#teammoth
The Brick (Sunira circellaris).
October 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
pterocarya-botany.bsky.social
Saw the Newark Earthworks yesterday.
October 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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scottzona.bsky.social
Many species of Selaginella (#Selaginellaceae) have two kinds of leaves (microphylls): Spreading, distichously arranged leaves and a second kind of leaf appressed to the stem. This is Selaginella picta. Classic #anisophylly! #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of the leafy shoots of a Selaginella. It has two kinds of leaves, those that are spreading and those closely appressed to the stem. This species also has leaves that are silvery and those that are green. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
October 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
pterocarya-botany.bsky.social
Hey @skunkcabbages.bsky.social would you be interested in some native plants. Am in your area atm. Have a few mountain mints, rattlesnake master and Manfreda virginica
October 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
pterocarya-botany.bsky.social
Solidago rigida, commonly called stiff goldenrod, in bloom at a park in central Kenticky. #kentucky #plants #nativeplants #wildflowers #flowers #bloomscroll #plantsky
October 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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mcaterino.bsky.social
High elevation litter spiders of southern Appalachia show less local endemism than other arthropods - ballooning by spiderlings apparently overcomes geographic isolation. A great collaboration with @forthespiders.bsky.social & Ernesto Recuero

doi.org/10.1636/JoA-... (if paywalled write me for pdf)
One fourth of a phylogenetic tree of southern Appalachian spiders, with photos of three representative taxa along the right side, Wadotes hybridus (reddish brown cephalothorax with zig-zag stripey gray and white abdomen), Neon nelli (large-eyed gray jumping spider), and Antrodiaetus sp. (a large-jawed mygalomorph trapdoor spider, light tan with a reddish abdomen. One fourth of a phylogenetic tree of southern Appalachian spiders, with photos of four representative taxa along the right side, Centromerus denticulatus and Centromerus tennapax (both mostly golden brown with gray abdomen, both males with enlarged palps), Bathyphantes bishopi (dark brown cephalothorax, long legs, dark gray abdomen), Tenuiphantes sabulosus (golden cephalothorax, long legs, pale dark-striped abdomen). One fourth of a phylogenetic tree of southern Appalachian spiders, with photos of four representative taxa along the right side, Collinsia sp. and Collinsia oxypaederotipus (both with light brown cephalothorax, pale legs, gray-green abdomen, both males with enlarged palps), Ceraticelus laetabilis (stout, with brown cephalothorax and lighter brown abdomen, palps slightly enlarged), Ceraticelus fissiceps (orange cephalothorax with distinctly enlarged dark snout, lighter abdomen). One fourth of a phylogenetic tree of southern Appalachian spiders, with photos of four representative taxa along the right side, Sisicus n. sp (not yet described, light brown round cephalothorax, with pale abdomen and legs, large male palps), Floricomus praedesignatus (dark tuberculate male cephalothorax, gray-green abdomen, pale legs), Blestia sarcocuon (anteriorly pointed cephalothorax, dark with long yellowish legs, impressive male palps), and Ceratinops carolinus (prolonged elevated, brown male cephalothorax, gray-green abdomen).
September 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
pterocarya-botany.bsky.social
Symphyotrichum pratense-commonly known as the Barrens Silky Aster-in bloom yesterday at a cedar glade in Central Kentucky. #nativeplants #botany #plants #nature #Wildflowers #kentucky #plantsky #bloomscroll #photography
September 29, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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toxicoradica.bsky.social
🌸 southern blazingstar 🌿
Liatris squarrulosa

#nativeplants #flowerreport
#bloomscrolling #bloomsky
a composite flower with over a dozen light, bright purplish pink disk florets and no ray florets. each disk floret is has a tubular corolla with five pointed, spreading lobes, and a long, bifuracted style that runs through a dark purple fused stamen tube. reddish purple bristles run up along the outside of the corolla. several flowerheads near the top of a tall stem, each with over a dozen bright purple-pink, tubular disk florets with five pointed lobes & long split styles. below the florets, there are rows and rows of green & purple hoary, rounded phyllaries that curve out away from the columnar flowerhead. two southern blazingstars growing in a patch of savannah among grasses, in front of some slenderstalk beeblossoms. the blazingstars are chest-high and leaning to the right. many lance-shaped green leaves grow alternately on the tall stems, many with budding flowerheads on their axils. the flowers are successively more developed nearer the top of the stems, which terminate in a few flowerheads in full bloom, each with over a dozen bright purple-pink florets with long styles.
September 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM