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Life.

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A hand holds a small clear glass jar of water in which a plant has rooted.
November 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
atinysilverfrog.bsky.social
Symbiotic, hallucinogenic, fungus grows on morning glory seeds ... wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2025...

#plants #plantnerd #fungi #biology #mushrooms #morningglory #witchsky
WVU Today | WVU student discovers long-awaited mystery fungus sought by LSD’s inventor
Making a discovery with the potential for innovative applications in pharmaceutical development, a West Virginia University microbiology student has found a long sought-after fungus that produces effe...
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November 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
erinalladin.bsky.social
What level of plant nerd are my cohost and I? Well, we made a reaction podcast to Little Shop of Horrors based around the accuracy of its representation of carnivorous plants. #plantnerd #gardensky #littleshopofhorrors #halloween
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October 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM
rockerblonde.bsky.social
Paph Doll's Kobold second blooming for me don't know why I didn't post it last year. But it's a really plant very easy growing quite small in size plant wise nice large bloom.
#orchids #orchidaceae #greenhouse #nature #hybrid #garden #gardening #plants #orchidmad #plantmad #plantnerd #plantgeek
September 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
rockerblonde.bsky.social
Well it's that time of year where I need to except winter is here, and the netting has to come down the light waning and the grey dull days are here for the orchids to get through.
#orchids #orchidaceae #greenhouse #garden #gardening #plants #nofilter #orchidmad #plantmad #plantnerd #plantgeek
September 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
darkbystar.bsky.social
Hedera Helix

Only Plant Nerds will get why she's named like that

#plantnerd #ocart #originalcharacterart #fuckingjuicethatyoudrink
September 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
atinysilverfrog.bsky.social
I grow these indigo rose black tomatoes not for their flavor or even their color, but for how well they remind me that tomato pants are firmly in the nightshade family.

#tomatoes #nightshade #blacktomatoes #indigorose #garden #gardening #gardensky #plants #plantnerd #plantsky #gothic #witchsky
Indigo rose black tomatoes on the vine in pur garden
September 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
thesucculentway.bsky.social
It’s a restock day which is always fun, and sometimes disappointing when you see the ones who need some love. We’ll get em’ back into shape!

#PlantNerd #Succulent #Succulents #Plants #OfficeView #OutdoorOffice #Restock #Inventory
August 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
thesucculentway.bsky.social
About a month ago we rescued this poor, stressed Haworthia cooperi, and look at her now!! 🤩

#HaworthiaCooperi #Haworthia #Succulent #Succulents #WindowHaworthia #PlantNerd #PlantRescue
August 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
thesucculentway.bsky.social
It’s separation day, and these chicks were ready to leave their mamas. We never mind working on Sundays when this is our office! 😁

#PlantNerd #Sempervivum #Succulent #Succulents #HensAndChicks #Plants #OfficeView #OutdoorOffice
August 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
thesucculentway.bsky.social
I picked up this cobweb sempervivum today for the TSW collection, and I couldn’t be more geeked out, it’s soooo cool!

#PlantNerd #Sempervivum #CobwebChicks&Hens #Cobwebs #HalloweenVibes #Succulent #Succulents #HensAndChicks #Plants
July 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
nimblenewt.bsky.social
Erythrina crista-galli (Cockspur Coral-Tree) blooming in my greenhouse. It's getting quite a trunk on it, finally, with a lovely braided-texture to the bark; I sowed the seed in 2009. I like how the buds are so beaky.
#bloomscrolling #plantnerd
A panicle of red flowers hangs from a sparse green-leaved tree in a greenhouse. The flowers have a large central petal that folds open to reveal a beaky central tube, also red, tipped by a cluster of whiskery stamens at the tip, like a muppet. I am always tempted to add some googly eyes at the base of the beak! It's quite an elegant little tree, the leaves are a lovely green and the flower panicles, sometimes quite long, droop down to eye level from the branch tips. It's sparse because it was a martyr to thrips this year though, I had to partially defoliate it to get them under control, which was annoying because the leaves have little barbs at the tip of the petiole where it meets the leaflet. Normally it's a lovely umbrella of leaves tipped with long bloom chains. I considered it a shrub when I sowed the seed, but I once saw one growing as a sturdy tree bigger than a bungalow in a front yard in Brisbane. Not hardy here in Canada, alas, so we have to dig it up at the end of the season and bring it in to winter warmth, on the years it is on display.
July 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
eleonora-m.bsky.social
Rest & be thankful.

#fieldnotes
#plantnerd
July 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
alex-kunz.com
A dozen new additions to my gallery of native plants in San Diego County. It's a never-ending chase... :P

www.alex-kunz.com/plant-update...

#NaturePhotography #NativePlants #SanDiego #PlantNerd #CloseUp #BloomScrolling #BlogPost #PhotoBlog
Plant Update July 2025
Twelve new photos of native plants in San Diego County, California.
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July 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
eleonora-m.bsky.social
White leadtree (Leucaena leucocephala) standing quiet against a moody sky and endless ocean
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#floraoftheworld
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July 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
sevenhillfarm.bsky.social
First “black” aka dark chocolate sunflower this year ! 🖤🌱 (link in comments if you’d like seed)
Fun fact: a sunflower isn’t actually one big flower, but thousands of tiny flowers bordered by a ring of petals 🌻
#gardensky #didyouknow #bloomscroll #botany #plantnerd #funfact #bluesky #smallbusiness
A tall sunflower standing against a blue sky with wispy white clouds. The sunflower petals and center are both a very dark reddish brown.
July 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
nineofpossums.bsky.social
Seeing monocarpic plants on sale that are actively flowering...😐😑 #plants #plantnerd
July 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
eleonora-m.bsky.social
Meet Madeira Moneywort (Sibthorpia peregrina)

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#floraoftheworld
#fieldnotes
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July 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
eleonora-m.bsky.social
Conundrum: I know the risks of introduced species, yet I’m still captivated by their beauty - like this Spathodea campanulata or African tulip tree. Not native to Madeira, but undeniably striking.

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#plantnerd
#FloraOfTheWorld

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July 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
nimblenewt.bsky.social
Epiphyllum bloom season has arrived! This one is on a branch that stealth-infiltrated my Phlebodium fern; I love the combination.
#plantnerd #bloomscrolling #plantsky #ferns #succulents
A multitude of blue, deeply divided Hare's Foot Fern fronds (covered with lines of white dots that mark where golden spore clusters sit on the back of the leaves), are interrupted by the hand-sized flower of a Queen of the Night cactus. The flower is still opening, but it is white at the centre with a fringe of slim blush-toned petals. While closed it somewhat resembles a spider-petalled chrysanthemum, though by the time it opens it will be glorious beyond compare with any other flower. The latin name of the fern is Phlebodium aureum; the succulent is Epiphyllum oxypetalum, and it's a succulent tropical epiphyte more than a cactus, though sometimes it does produce some crafty very-fine spines in its leaf scallops, to torment its custodian.
July 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
eleonora-m.bsky.social
Botanical dispatch from Madeira

There are 3 endemic orchid species on the island: Goodyera macrophylla, Dactylorhiza foliosa & Orchis mascula subsp. scopulorum. Here is D. foliosa, spotted today while walking the Levada do Alecrim...isn't she lovely?
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#bloomscrolling
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#FloraOfTheWorld
July 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
nimblenewt.bsky.social
An unusual 4-petalled Tigridia pavonia showcasing its speckles to the sun, with a bonus fly pollinator. So peppy!
#bloomscrolling #plantnerd
A picture of two yellow flowers with red speckles in their centres, in a flower bed. The flowers are called Tigridia, and are members of the Iris family so they normally have flower components in sets of 3 (3 petals, 3 stamens etc), like the flower on the left. However the one on the right has 4 big petals and a half-petal, a variation I have not seen before but with this nifty flower, the more the better! Sometimes it is called the "jaguar iris" and comes in various colours, always keeping the speckles though.
July 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
eleonora-m.bsky.social
Summer 2025: I think I have a thing for Yucca...

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#plantnerd
#floraoftheworld
July 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
eleonora-m.bsky.social
Botanical dispatch from Madeira:
I believe this is Euphorbia piscatoria, a shrubby succulent endemic to Madeira.

#FloraOfTheWorld
#PlantNerd
#WildPlantWednesday
July 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM