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[Image description: a series of photos showing the leaf of a Monstera deliciosa going from tightly rolled up to fully spread. The final image shows the leaf with the holes typical of a Monstera deliciosa leaf. It is a paler green than the surrounding leaves, and very glossy.]

Monstera leaf unfurling. Took a lot longer than I thought it would! One picture per day.

But look at how pretty it is!

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If you cut me I seep clear aloe vera gel. Like thats it. That’s who you’re dealing with. 

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The Devil Tree (NJ)

In New Jersey there is a tree that is allegedly cursed because the farmer who hung himself on it after killing his entire family. Numerous suicides and murderes have allegedly happened near this tree and anyone who tries to cut it down, meets their death. According to the legend, the souls of those killed around the tree give an unnatural warmth, and even in the winter, snow will not fall around it. It has chain fencing around it now to keep people from trying to chop it down.

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Anthropomorphic Tree

Anthropomorphism which is the recognition of human-like characteristics or form in animals, plants or non-living things. This tree, which can be found in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, has roots which have taken a human-like form.

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An agave growing massive in this long-abandoned greenhouse [1024x768]

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Royal Botanical Gardens, August/September 2017

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Great mullen or velvet dock, left. Moth mullen, right. Nature’s garden. 1927

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The holidays’ wreaths, by Julia Nikita

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Decorative cover of ‘Beautiful Wild Flowers’ by Isaac Sprague. Text by A.B. Hervey. Published 1887 by Nims & Knight

archive.org

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Sougy, Paul. The skin, La peau. 1957.  Bibliothèque Numérique de l'Université d'Artois, France.

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“John Wanamaker plant and roots.” The dahlia; a practical treatise on its habits, characteristics cultivation and history. 1916. Source. 

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An amateur orchid grower works in the window of his greenhouse in Silver Spring, Maryland, April 1971.Photograph by Gordon Gahan, National Geographic

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Alaria lanceolata. The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan. v.43. 1919-21.

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