#Brunsvigia

[thebotanicalarcade]

[sempergrower]

Brunsvigia radula x B marginata

[miminmimikyu]

looking at other plant species that can form tumblweeds and, wow, Brunsvigia bosmaniae what a beauty!!!! it looks so alien coming out of the ground without any leaves or green tissue anywhere

but after it sets seed it sheds its inflorescence (which rolls off as a tumbleweed) out come the leaves

and turns into

babe what

Photo sources [1] [2] [3] [4]

[angolodonne]

Brunsvigia

[ruthbancroftgarden]

Brunsvigia josephinae

This very large bulb is native to winter-rainfall areas in the southwestern part of South Africa, and it is completely dormant during the summer months. In late summer, before the autumn rains bring forth its leaves, it makes an astonishingly large globe of flowers, with the purplish pedicels radiating out from atop the flower stalk, each ending in a curved red flower. After the flowers go by, the drying stalk detaches from the bulb and blows away like a tumbleweed, dispersing the seeds. Although this event takes place every year at the Ruth Bancroft Garden, it never ceases to amaze us.

-Brian

[mrlontraman]

Inktober Cont. Day Seventy Five: Brunsvigia

The seventy fifth day of Inktober 2019. The flower for today is brunsvigia, a deciduous African flower that grows in semi-arid regions and blooms in autumn. It attracts hummingbirds and other small birds. Triangle capsules resembling small kites scatter their seeds along the ground in the wind.

[starstruck-with-love]

picking from the list if that’s okay! gale, is there a lot of pda in your relationship with kaidou? and who makes romantic gestures more?

It's completely okay!

There's not much PDA in our relationship since neither of us can really handle it for long, hehe. God knows we've uh... We've definitely tried and most we've gotten in public up until now is hand holding. As for romantic gesture, I'd have to say, probably me? I mean- I'm the romantic of the two, hehe... That doesn't stop Kaidou from doing it though, hehe.

[inannaschosen]

4 and 7!

thank you, dear!!

4 is answered here!

7. Give us 3 random facts abt your s/i!

⇀ she majored in business in college, thinking it would give her a decent shot at a career despite how boring she finds the topic. spoiler: it did not. 

⇀  she is itty bitty. only 5′1. (ishtar is barely an inch above her.)

⇀ absolutely terrified of the ocean. nope, she will not get in it. she does not trust like that. other outdoor bodies of water are fine, but not the goddamn ocean. 

[wapiti3]

Description of a new sex of a very rare and very beautiful African plant 

By Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758

Publication info Braunschweig,Gedruckt im grossen Waysenhause,1755.

BHL Collections:

New York Botanical Garden

[yellowgnomeboots]

What the hell. Look at this plant. In all its forms it is bizarre. It has “6-8 deciduous leaves”. That’s not a lot of leaves for a whole plant you know. The plant doesn’t know this though. Then it just grows an alien like flower bud straight out of the ground and explodes into a pink ball on a stick.

Brunsvigia bosmaniae, from South Africa.

All photos just grabbed off google.

[nohr-and-thirst]

♡ Self Ship Q&A! ♡ Tagged by my lovely friend @yamiselfships~!!! Thankie so extremely much~!!!

Introduce yourselves. Who are you? What do you like to do?

“Hello there! My name is Morgan and I am a proud member of the Armed Detective Agency! I use to work for the guild, but I left in search for the book! However, as you can see, I found my whole universe right here~!”

“Hah Morgan honey bun, please hah! I am Dazai Osamu, a fellow member of the Armed Detective Agency. Morgan here is my husband of about five years now!”

How was your first meeting like?

“Oh my our first meeting hah!!! Let’s just say it was eventful to say the least... hah!!! Nothing that out of ordinary to be honest hah!!!

“Nothing that out of ordinary?! Morgan you were being chased for the Port Mafia while Atsushi was too! I couldn’t just leave such a handsome strong will man to be by himself! It was fate that made us meet that faithful day, and that I was able to save you and protect you. At the same time you showed who you were, a strong willed individual with a pure heart of gold!”

“Oh my goodness Osamu your making me blush! You were the strong one with the brains and will to save me! You should be saying that towards yourself!”

“Awwww Morgan~ you thought I was strong~?”

“Osamu hah, mi rey, I know you are silly~!”

How did you get together? Who confessed first?

“Oh I wanna tell this one!”

“Floor is yours honey bun! Go ahead”

“I confused to him the week before my birthday so December 27! Everything was calm for once, no Guild, no Port Mafia, far before the Rats or DoA. We were hanging out at a café I love, Enokitei Honton! I gave him a hand-made scarf!”

“Yes you did, it was blue and pastel pink with a cute note written in pink gel pen with how much love you made it with and how much you loved me~!”

What are your thoughts on PDA?

“Morgan is really the only one I’m okay with PDA, I know he means no harm, and he just wishes for me to be the happiest. I’m very affectionate towards Morgan, which is good cause I like to cause Morgan to blush!”

“I like getting affection from Osamu, it feels loving, sweet, and genuine! It’s the real way to show someone you love them you know? Like a clear peace of mind and loving the whole universe!”

How do you show your affection towards each other/what are your love languages?

“Morgan likes to write me notes, doodles for me, sew, and give me lots of kisses on the cheeks and lips. But another thing Morgan does is write a ton of poems and speak to me in the languages he knows! Did you know Morgan only could speak Spanish before the Guild raised him? The way I found Morgan even knew Russian is cause on time I joking responded his cute romantic poem in Spanish, and Morgan just spoke to me in Russian and called me his angel!”

“Well you told me to show my love to you know every way I knew how to, so I did! Osamu knows how much of the hopeless romantic I am~! He loves to bake me sweets and leave little cute poems on a note~! He also brings flowers to the agency, and he loves to give me his coat when I get cold~! Oh he also loves to play with me hair and tell me how he loves me everyday~! I feel so loved and safe being in his arms~!”

Who’s more introverted and who’s more extroverted?

“I’m more of the extroverted one, Morgan needs a little push sometimes because he thinks he shouldn’t relax!”

“Osamu is more extroverted, and by saying I should relax he means we should skip work, but I agreed cause I can’t say no to his handsome smile!”

Who’s the big spoon and who’s the little spoon?

“I am little spoon! Osamu is a whole foot taller than me, and I love his hugs cause they protect me and I like to use his coat as protection!”

“Plus I love to play with Morgan’s soft hair when he is falling asleep, he looks like a little rabbit, at peace and happy!”

What do you like doing together the most?

“We like to do anything together! However we tend to just go out in the front yard of our house and paint when it’s the dusk! Osamu is such a talented painter!”

“Ah now you are making me blush Morgan! Another thing we love to do together is cook and bake together! We often bring a lot of sweets and left overs to the ada cause we just cook and bake a lot!”

Tell us a fun fact about the other!

“Morgan is very skilled at chess and puzzles! You can see Morgan play this game series that has interesting stories, but so many puzzles on his 3DS!”

“Osamu plays piano so beautiful and calming, I been trying to improve my skills at the cello so we can have a duet one day! His piano skills are breathtaking, I get so moved!”

Tag other selfshippers and their f/os.

@kaiselfships and Kouyou!

@dumbglitch and Dr. Ivo Robotnik!

@brunsvigia and Nikolai!

@adamlesbian and Fyodor!

@fefarmer and Oda!

@futureschemistry and Nathaniel!

[soulnottainted]

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new ask game send me a 🌻 and ill just tell you whatever the fuck i want

@brunsvigia

I have about 12 snowglobes in my snowglobe collection. Last week mom added the twelfth when she found one that was given to me at 2 years old but I was too young to handle something so breakable. It has a princess and a fairy in it and the tune is ‘Clair de Lune’

[robin-elan-blog]

I was getting rid of a bunch of stuff from my wedding to my ex recently, and I found this card that his mother had written to me. It said, “Bloom Where You Are Planted.” I laughed, because, well, clearly I completely failed at that suggestion. 

But I also think the card was shit advice. 

Often we have to leave where we were planted to find a community that can care for and support us in the ways we need, especially for those of us who are queer, trans, or gender non-conforming. 

I BLOOM WHERE I DAMN WELL PLEASE. 

[sunshineiwill]

Brunsvigia bosmaniae African tumbleweed

[hortulusaptus-blog]

The ‘big bulbs’ are blooming - Drimia maritima & Brunsvigia josephinae https://www.instagram.com/p/ChksPBzPnPN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jabberding0]

brunsvigia josephinae