#Dayflower?

[daylightisminetoconsume]

If Gunmar had hanahaki disease what sort of blossoms do you think he’d choke on?

[tanuki-kimono]

Adorable hotaru (firefly) themed ensemble, featuring a yukata patterned with fireflies among hotarugusa (dayflower, lit. "firefly grass"), and a matching obi.

[rumeko]

outside

自由意志

[discover-underground-bands]

hello! i’m a young queer musician from seattle. i make alternative pop music in my room under the name dayflower! i write about mental health, queer experiences, societal issues, relationships, and stories i make. i put a lot of work into it and it’s my passion! i am on youtube and most streaming services, including bandcamp :)

spotify / youtube

[moominpunx]

psst hey psssstt hey you

are you looking for a new young queer musician writing about love, hate, being trans, mental health, not fitting in, and existentialism?

who makes self produced music inspired by the likes of cavetown, bears in trees, addison grace, girl in red, and ricky montgomery?

then you should totally check out dayflower (totally NOT me i am NOT this person ☝️)

it would mean a lot if you gave it a listen and shared it with your friends and family 🔥🔥🫡🫵💪

my dream is to make this a career and preform live someday, so it would help me a lot to get a head start !!

[los-plantalones]

asiatic dayflower | greater celandine

[adventurealldays]

I searched for her for days

[faguscarolinensis]

Commelina erecta / Slender Dayflower at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[falseandrealultravival]

Today's Haiku with Picture 599

Blue flower

Like a dayflower

Ephemerally

青花の

ツユクサのごと

儚げに

Spiderwort, Oyster plant

ムラサキツユクサ

(2023.04.23)

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Succulents Part 12--Bergenia, Bromeliads, Commelina, Orchids, Pontederia, and whatever that green thing is

Succulents are a wide variety of plants, spanning multiple orders. Some have succulent leaves while others have succulent stems. Cactuses are succulents, but not all succulents are cactuses. Defining what exactly makes a succulent is a little tricky. For example, cabbage leaves are considered by some to be succulent, but tulip and onion leaves apparently aren't.

All photos mine. Unedited.

The green thing is maybe a spurrey, but I'm not sure. It's clearly a succulent, though. And that's all I got for you in the succulent department (not technically: milkweeds are succulent, but I have enough photos of them for a separate series)! Hope you've enjoyed. :)

Please don't grow water hyacinth (the light purple ones in the bottom photos), though if you're not in its native range. It's terribly invasive in the waterways. You can grow its native cousins, though! In southern Ontario, that's Pontederia cordata (pickerelweed).

Dayflower (the blue ones) on the other hand is native to the northeastern USA bordering southern Ontario and has crossed the border some time back. :)

[dougdimmadodo]

Asiatic Dayflower (Commelina communis)

Family: Spiderwort Family (Commelinaceae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Unassessed

Found naturally in damp, open environments across much of eastern and southeastern Asia, the Asiatic Dayflower is named for its extremely short-lived flowers, which wither within only around 24 hours of blooming. Lacking the ability to produce nectar, the flowers of this species instead attract pollinators such as bees and hoverflies using three different floral structures; bright blue petals (which are produced in pairs, and protrude upwards,) pale yellow structures called staminodes (which resemble tiny yellow flowers but are actually underdeveloped pollen-lacking stamens that serve only to draw in pollinators) and three pale dangling true stamens, which are the only part of the flower that actually bares pollen. Asiatic Dayflower flowers are able to both produce pollen and take in the pollen of other members of their species to fertilize the ova within them, and upon being fertilized a flower will develop small, pale, oval-shaped fruits that develop separately to the plant's stamens, allowing them to continue to spread their own pollen; the entire plant dies in the autumn/fall of the year it germinated in, and as it does so it leaves its fruits behind to be carried away by animals, allowing the four small seeds within to germinate in the following summer. Within its native range (particularly the island of Honshu, Japan) the petals of this species have historically been collected and used to produce blue dye (which is achieved by wringing a "juice" from the petals containing the blue pigment Commelinin,) and today members of this species are often cultivated for this purpose. The cultivation of this species, both for ornamental purposes and to be harvested for its dye, has also allowed it to become established as an invasive species in parts of North America.

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Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/52927-Commelina-communis

[crowbone]

I hate asiatic dayflower. This mother fucker right here:

Pretty, right? A nice true blue flower, which is rare. You think you’d like to have it in your garden, yeah?

Well you are dead wrong.

It’s invasive as hell. If it gets a foothold you will never get rid of it because it snakes out across the ground, putting roots in at every node, so even if you pull up the vines you’ll probably leave behind little roots that regrow into new plants.

When I was in the hospital for six weeks, and in the following three months it took to be strong enough to do gardening again, it completely choked one of my flowerbeds and was growing two feet out onto the patio. It also took over a 1’x2’ patch on the side of the house, where the sprinkler system goes into the ground, and sent a two foot high tangle of vines behind all my potted citrus trees, and grew over ten feet along the wall of the house.

I’m going to be tearing this shit out of the ground as long as I live here. I can’t even blame previous tenants, as I did for the Peruvian lilies in the other flower bed (which I did eventually eradicate, after three years of trying); this fucking thing blew in on the wind somehow because it has tiny ass seeds, which are another reason it spreads everywhere. I don’t even think tarping the dirt over would do it. I think it would find a way to creep out under the edges, and I have too many larger plants that I don’t want to kill. Likewise, I don’t want to be anywhere near the type of herbicide it takes to kill this thing.

Fuck you, asiatic dayflower.

[mycthefirefly]

This cornflower blue flower is very tiny, and it's called "dayflower". It's just the size of a fingernail! Yet, besides it's medicinal properties, the sprouts and tender stems are edible and the juice of the flower can be used as a dye!

[butterflies-and-bumble-bees]

Commelina communis

[shinebrightlikeadiamondhawks]

Asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis).

"The asiatic dayflower is an annual creeper that is classified as an invasive species in many areas. Known for its beautiful blooms that only last one day, the asiatic dayflower has spread throughout much of the world. It is used in Japan and China to create blue and green pigments.

Symbolism: Hope and dreams.

Habitat: Shady grassy places, cultivated fields, roadsides (found this one on the side of the road, yes).

"There are many flowers in the shape of butterflies, but few are so similar to butterflies than the asiatic dayflower. Its two blue petals look like tiny folded wings, with its bright yellow stamens and long white filaments looking like the butterfly body and tentacles. Looking from afar, it is easily mistaken for a butterfly that flies away in the blink of an eye.

Commelina communis, commonly known as the Asiatic dayflower, is an herbaceous annual plant in the dayflower family. It receives its name from the characteristic that its blooming phase lasts for only one day. Also, it is native throughout most of East Asia and northern parts of Southeast Asia."

(Photos taken on 13th of August, 2023, China)

[moominpunx]

hiiiii i did a full @bearsintreesofficial cover on my youtube channel !!!