#ovate
LightNews LightNews
norska11.bsky.social
Here's Begonia metachroa, a Rhizomatous type of species begonia from Brazil. Leaves are ovate, dark green/brown. Underside of leaves is garnet red w/ remarkable hairiness. In low light conditions it presents a very noticeable blue iridescence. Blooms: small white. Terrarium culture.🌱 #begonias
December 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🌊 The botany of Captain Beechey's voyage
London, H. G. Bohn, 1841.

[Source]
Historical botanical illustration from 1841 showing three detailed branches of Vitis ovata, a plant with ovate leaves and small clustered flowers atop each branch. The drawing includes a close-up inset of a single flower showing reproductive parts in detail. The image is from Captain Beechey’s ocean voyage collection, highlighting plant species encountered during maritime exploration. The fine line work captures the leaf venation and flower morphology precisely. The plate is labelled "TAB. XLVII" and signed at the bottom with the plant’s scientific name. The cream-colored background accentuates the delicate and scientific style typical of 19th-century botanical documentation.
December 11, 2025 at 7:23 AM
sparkandtwig.bsky.social
Stunning photo of ice in a creekbed taken by @justagirl52.bsky.social and posted with permission
Rather abstract image taken on what appears to be an overcast day, looking down on an icy creekbed. On the left are brown sandstone rocks with a slight green cast, maybe algae. On the right is still water and a reflection of the sky with deciduous tree branches, perhaps mid autumn, an expressionist painterly feel. In the center is ice, mostly vertical cracks, but also shapes like knotty wood grain. And on top of all this are a couple small ovate shaped leaves, light rust in color.
December 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
elisnativeplants.bsky.social
We got our first Aronia berries this year. I learned that each Common Milkweed seed pod comes from one of the 120-200 flowers in an inflorescence. Our lonely northern mallow species, Hibiscus moscheutos proliferated, as did H. sawflies, Elderberry sawflies, and birds. #nativeplants
#ecoregion59
Our first aronia berries, plump and black on waxy, ovate, lightly toothed leaves. They will stain your fingers, even if you don't crush them. Rosemallow buds, clustered at the tip of a stem with whorled leaves densely filling in behind. The sawflies were on the lower leaves, and were soon found by finches when they put holes in upper leaves. Elderberry sawfly on an elderberry cutting I took last year. The cuttings were fine, and all Elderberries were as well. The finches hunted sawflies as they waited for the elderberries to bloom. Nature provides balance when given the chance.
November 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
ginnystibolt.bsky.social
Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) is in the mint family (Lamiacaeae). Appropriately, the genus name is Greek for "beautiful fruit." It's a bird-friendly shrub native to the SE states from MD - TX. Can you spot the Mockingbird & Cardinal?
greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/2020/03/for-...
Photo of a beautyberry shrub with clumps of irridescent purple berries and slightly druping ovate leaves. There is a Gray Mockingbird perched in the shrub in the upper right corner of the photo, while a Cardinal is perched in the shrub at the lower left of the photo. Palmetto fronds and large trees are in the background. Text says, "2 birds in the bush..."
November 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
biodiversitypix.bsky.social
☘ Comprehensive catalogue of Queensland plants
Brisbane, A. J. Cumming, government printer[pref. 1909]

[Source]
Historical botanical illustration from the 1909 "Comprehensive catalogue of Queensland plants," depicting two species of the Verbenaceae family. The lower half shows detailed line drawings of Newcastlea cephalantha with elongated, ovate leaves, clustered flower heads, and cross-sections of seeds and fruit. The upper half features Dicrastylis wrightii, illustrating a leafy branch with small clustered flowers alongside labeled botanical details: leaves with branched hairs, flower calyx, ovary, style, and stamen. The page includes scientific annotations and fine botanical sketches focused on leaf structure and reproductive parts, providing an informative study of plant morphology. Page numbered 383.
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
prahajess.bsky.social
🌙 Previous Moons 🌙

A prequel to Early Magic
- Modern druids in Wales
- Dark Academic setting
- second-world portal
- Boss Bitch Villain

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips
#F #YA #books #druids
You're an exceptional student, Mr. Bramwell.” “Thank you.” He managed not to make it sound like a question, but only just. Somehow he’d lost the thread of this conversation and was now blushing, despite himself. She was still standing quite close. “I’ve been following your progress.” She lifted her long hair and moved it to one side of her head, causing another wave of spicy sweetness to bloom around them.“You are the strongest young ovate I’ve seen in years.” “Oh, well—” “There's no point in denying it," she interrupted. "I'm well aware of the skills of my students.” Finally she took a step back, though it was only to look Dylan up and down. “You are different.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
scottzona.bsky.social
Phyllanthus unifoliatus doesn’t have the Phyllanthus branching. The name suggests that this species, unlike others, is unifoliolate, but of course, all Phyllanthus have simple, not compound, leaves. This one is from New Caledonia. #Phyllanthaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of leafy shoots with large, ovate leaves. The shoots do not resemble pinnately compound leaves. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
climp.bsky.social
When I’m about to bravo you better believe i stand and ovate
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
billpusztai.bsky.social
Flower of #Sarracenia flava, yellow pitcher-plant.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
On a white background. A complicated flower. The reproductive parts are in the middle, concelaed by a structure of five tough inward-curving bright green calyxes growing at 45 degrees to the ground, between which grow five bright yellow linear-ovate petals that droop down.
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
nellieadjacent.bsky.social
I made beef Wellington, please stand and ovate 🥹
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
billpusztai.bsky.social
Arnica cordifolia, heartleaf arnica
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
On a background of blurry green leaves, a single composite flower. The rays are yellow and ovate, the disc flowers tiny and golden. It was raining and the flower was wet.
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
scottzona.bsky.social
Leaf gloss has not received much study from botanists. Why are some leaves glossy & others not? Does gloss have a function? Reflecting excess light? So many questions. An excellent example of ultra-glossy leaves is Garcinia aristata of Cuba & Hispaniola. #Clusiaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a leafy branch. The leaves are stiff, ovate, aristate, and very shiny. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
redtrilliumgardens.bsky.social
Leaving Cali today. Don't wanna go. But here, have some #californianativeplants I saw at Point Lobos in Carmel.
Orange monkeyflower, Diplacus aurianticus. An orange, tube-like flower with ~six partially fused petals, and narrow, needle-like leaves. In the same family (Phrymaceae) as East Coast monkeyflowers (Mimulus spp), but different genus. Castilleja latifolia, Monterey paintbrush. Native endemic of California! Related to the East Coast's Indian paintbrush, Castilleja coccinea. As you can see, the bright orange "flowers" are actually bracts. Ceanothus thyrsiflorus, blueblossom. A cluster of small, blue-white flowers above ovate, serrated, fleshy leaves. Clusters of white composite flowers on a woody shrub. Baccharis pilularis, coyote brush. I took one look at this and -- thanks to learning about groundsel tree (B. halimifolia) in my Botany of the CT Coast class -- thought, "that has to be a Baccharis!" In fairness, I don't know a lot of shrubs in Asteraceae.
November 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
aosmith16.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Such a pretty, bright green lichen on the base of a maple tree

#lichen #lichensubscribe #pnw
A round-shaped patch of lichen, bright green at the base of a pale-barked tree trunk. Maple and ovate leaves are piled on the ground below
November 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
gorgepulse.bsky.social
Bead lily (Clintonia uniflora) or queen's cup, grows in moist coniferous forest in the Gorge. It blooms in summer. Native Americans used a juice from smashed plants as a wash for cuts & sore eyes & applied a poultice of the plant to wounds & eyes. The root juice was taken for ...
#Nativeplants
The bead lily is about 6 inches tall when in bloom. It has basal, deep green strap-shaped ovate leaves with parallel veins. The flower is at the end of a stem with 6 narrow white petals, about an inch (2.5 cm) across.
October 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
z3r0gravitas.bsky.social
Dahlia Monday..? Dahlias any day!!

A couple novel looking varieties from a front garden at the bottom of the hill besides the main road, where I don't normally slow down to look.

Sunny SLR bike ride Vol 7 #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 187
Description by Gemini 2.5 Flash: A gorgeous, full bloom of a Dahlia in the foreground with pink and white striped petals. The bloom is a pompon or decorative style, with many layers of textured petals. A second, similarly colored Dahlia is visible and out of focus in the soft background. The foreground flower is lit brightly, showing deep magenta streaks on a lighter lavender-pink base. An extreme close-up of a vibrant Dahlia flower. Its densely packed petals are a soft pink with striking, irregular stripes and splashes of deep fuchsia and crimson. The center of the bloom is a cluster of smaller, curled petals in the darker fuchsia color. The soft, diffuse lighting highlights the delicate texture of the petals. Description by Gemini 2.5 Flash: A single, bright yellow Dahlia bloom centered against a soft, dark green background. The flower is open-faced with eight broad, ovate petals that surround a dark reddish-brown central disk. A few small, darker purple leaves are visible just below the bloom.
October 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
raphmikey.bsky.social
Saturday blooms

#garden
#flowers
#mobilephotography

Banksia
Glowing yellow, the cylindrical bloom of a Banksia on a branch with dark green ovate foliage.
October 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
drsian.bsky.social
Avocado and radish would have been useful additions. Oh well, next time. And here’s the star of the moment - a 1kg citrus fruit (mostly pith and peel), an ancestor of the grapefruit.
#kai
A very large, pale yellow, ovate citrus fruit the size of a child’s head.
October 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
norska11.bsky.social
Here's Begonia 'Conga', A Rhizomatous type of hybrid Begonia. Solid black, Shiny & ovate, medium sized leaves w/ a tiny, light center. Blooms: n/a, likely pink or white. Not a lot of available information on this Begonia's origins. Easy houseplant culture.🌱 #begonias
October 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
teasemporiumandco.bsky.social
#Impatienscapensis
#flower
#plant
#photography
#flowerphotography
#ontario
#canada
#mothernature
#nature
Jewelweed is a herbaceous plant that grows 0.9–1.5 m (3–5 ft) tall. It often branches extensively. The round stems are glabrous (smooth) and succulent, and semi-translucent, with swollen or darkened nodes on some plants. The leaves, which measure up to 13 cm (5 in) long and 6 cm (2+1⁄2 in) across, are alternate on the upper stems and opposite on the lower stems (when present). The leaves are ovate to elliptic, simple, and have shallow, rounded teeth on the margins. The seed pods have five valves which coil back rapidly to eject the seeds in a process called explosive dehiscence or ballistochory. This reaction is where the name 'touch-me-not' comes from; in mature seed pods, dehiscence can easily be triggered with a light touch. The plant blooms from late spring to early fall. The flowers are 2–3 cm (3⁄4–1+1⁄4 in) long, orange (sometimes blood orange or rarely yellow) with a three-lobed corolla; one of the calyx lobes is colored similarly to the corolla and forms a hooked conical spur at the back of the flower. Plants may also produce non-showy cleistogamous flowers, which do not require cross-pollination. Nectar spurs are tubular elongations of petals and sepals of certain flowers that usually contain nectar. Flowers of I. capensis have these nectar spurs. Nectar spurs are thought to have played a role in plant-pollinator coevolution. Curvature angles of nectar spurs of I. capensis are variable. This angle varies from 0 degrees to 270 degrees. The angle of the nectar spur is very important in the pollination of the flower and in determining the most efficient pollinator. Hummingbirds are major pollinators. They remove more pollen per visit from flowers with curved nectar spurs than with perpendicular nectar spurs. But hummingbirds are not the only pollinators of I. capensis. Bees, especially bumblebees play an important role in pollination as well. Due to hummingbirds and bees, the pollination of I. capensis is very high.
October 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
mariannedenton.bsky.social
Here’s a White Bog Orchid streamside last late June. But I think I like the other colloquial name, Boreal Bog Orchid.

Hopefully their morning sun glow brings you warmth. 🤍💚
Close up of a small white wildflower. From Wikipedia: an erect, perennial flower growing up to 11–130 cm (4.3–51.2 in) tall. The showy, white flowers are clustered on long spikes. The petals are ovate to linear-lance shaped with smooth edges. The lateral sepals spread or reflex. The entire spike of a white orchid in a grassy field. From Wikipedia: an erect, perennial flower growing up to 11–130 cm (4.3–51.2 in) tall. The showy, white flowers are clustered on long spikes. The petals are ovate to linear-lance shaped with smooth edges. The lateral sepals spread or reflex.
October 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🌳 The new guide to rose culture: .
West Grove, Pa.: The Dingee & Conard Co., 1881..

[Source]
Black-and-white historical botanical illustration of Hydrangea grandiflora, a hardy ornamental flowering shrub with large, dense, conical clusters of small flowers atop bushy, leafy stems. The flowers are noted as pure white, turning pink later, growing in pyramid-shaped trusses over a foot long and nearly as wide. The plant is depicted with leafy branches and broad ovate leaves, reaching 3 to 4 feet tall, known for compact growth and hardiness. The image is from an 1881 guide promoting this rare shrub valued for lawns, blooming mid-summer and lasting two to three months without requiring protection.
October 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
fishsqueezer.bsky.social
This is one of my friend Scott's orchids, it's an Epidendrum porpax with HUNDREDS of flowers. It's bigger than a basketball and is staggeringly beautiful.

🌱🪴
One side of an orchid with at least a hundred small flowers. They have upturned petals and a hanging red lip with a yellow center. The leaves are small and ovate-lanceolate with a center crease. There is some reflective material in the back.
October 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
allforgardening.bsky.social
White-flower Shrub of Florida pinehills

https://www.allforgardening.com/795155/white-flower-shrub-of-florida-pinehills/

Caught just as first flowers were opening. Tiny clustered leaves; ovate, involute. Please help identify! by Warstirsure
White-flower Shrub of Florida pinehills
Caught just as first flowers were opening. Tiny clustered leaves; ovate, involute. Please help identify!by Warstirsure
www.allforgardening.com
March 18, 2024 at 2:21 PM