To better understand using R, I converted a tutorial from gambling related, to Dungeons and Dragons themed. Relatability helps me learn. Eventually I managed to output pigment data from Austraits. Phase 2 is a craft project to make plant physiology and taxonomy relatable through storytelling.

I love this teeny tiny Eucalyptus viminalis leaf.
It’s the littlest gum tree leaf I’ve ever seen.

I have built an index in Obsidian on Tasmanian Endemic Eucalypts for my personal notes. Now I am adding pictures of each trait. This project has really helped me be able to visualise and understand similarities and differences amongst what previously felt like a vast amount of variables.

I love how the double ribs on this E. coccifera kept growing up past the operculum. These buds are heavy metal as

I hyperfocused on learning about bud bracts this week, after mistaking a bract from E.Nitens for an outer operculum.

Early bud development has buds encased in a bract.
Buds have an inner and outer operculum

Some buds shed the outer operculum early, resulting in an operculum scar.

I'm struggling a bit with some terminology. Any help would be appreciated. Is this an example of the sepaline operculum/ outer operculum shedding? With buds forming flowers that then shed a petaline operculum/inner operculum on each flower?