#Eucalyptus leaves

[fallensapphires]

Plants: Eucalyptus

Eucalypts are unusual in this respect: set pendulously their leaves allow see-through foliage which in turn produces a frail patterned sort of shade, if at all. Clarity, lack of darkness-these might be called 'eucalyptus qualities'.

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Black | White | Aqua ~

[etlu-yume]

Finally finally finally getting some groundwork done on this. I've been procrastinating it for weeks if not months.

aaaand I'm pretty sure that trying to get colours under a.) artificial light, b.) under WARM artificial light, and c.) when most of the sample leaves I've picked up are drying out (... or doing the paper warpy thing?) is probably slightly counter-productive.

But it's a start.

[totaldrama-mage00]

Eliminated due to Eucalyptus allergies

[remitro]

thinking abt cran revival.... Ya

[andallshallbewell]

[jagalart]

Hue VIII

Another patron reward for the most wonderful @bleatnik , thank you as alwaysssss 🙏🧡

[yogadaily]

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[gummi-stims]

🌿🐨Eucalyptus Scrub🐨🌿

From peachyslime on tiktok!

[semioticapocalypse]

Alma Lavenson. Eucalyptus Leaves. 1933

[schar-aac]

"eucalyptus"

image: a group of five eucalyptus leaves, with a bunch of gumnuts.

[tiredporkchop]

10/5/2024

the days are feeling shorter but it's still so hot. zz.

winsor & newton cotmam watercolors, baohong cold pressed cotton paper.

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[bestfriendsincethe3rdgrade]

Happy Birthday & Holidays @johnbbutmakeitace !!💜🌸🌻🌿💠

(Portraits based off this lovely 3+ y/o post )

[doctor-fancy-pants]

On Invertebrate Nookie

Wandering the wilds of Reddit, I came across a comment thread about sex ed.

A user lamented with understandable frustration that parents who wanted “abstinence-only” sex ed seemed to think that “if we don’t teach them about sex, they won’t know enough about it to have it!” and they are *not* wrong.

I felt the need to reflect on that statement, as follows.

It made me think of koalas.

Koalas are… not smart. Their brains are pretty smooth. Eucalyptus leaves are very low in nutrients so there’s not a lot of energy for anything other than sitting in a tree eating more eucalyptus leaves.

They still manage to breed without any outside intervention.

That’s just vertebrates. Let us consider the invertebrate phyla. Sea slugs or nudibranchs (a non-monophyletic group of shell-less marine molluscs) are almost exclusively hermaphroditic.

Some species, when they copulate, manage “reciprocal fertilisation” — ie, since they both have eggs that need fertilising, they deliver sperm to each other at the same time. Depending on how they’re put together, this means that you might see two nudibranchs connected at one very odd point (usually side by side).

Photo taken from this New Zealand conservation blog, worth a read!

(seriously it just looks like they’ve built a bridge, it’s weird.)

Seems to me like it takes a certain amount of coordination to negotiate two-way fertilisation in one’s fuckery plans.

Let’s STEP. IT. UP.

Two individuals? Two way fertilisation? That is barely intermediate level!

You want MASTERY when it comes to invertebrate sex? Yer marine biologist got you covered.

Sea hares (not rabbits, they’re also shell-less marine molluscs) link up end to end, to form a chain of fucking — sometimes several individuals in length.

[check out this dude’s blog post on the subject if you’re curious.]

The brains of the giant sea slug Alypsia are SO simple that they are used by neurological researchers as model organisms to visually map learning and memory. The human brain has millions of neurons.

Alypsia has about 20,000.

AND YET.

MULTIPLE INDIVIDUALS SIMULTANEOUSLY SWAPPING GAMETES AT THE SAME TIME.

So what these parents are saying, in essence, is “this sea slug is smarter than my child.”

In the absence of any literature, any pornography, any education on the topic whatsoever — when the hormones start tugging on the bell-ropes, that bell is gonna ring.

They will figure it out.

Alright, thank you for attending marine invertebrate biology outrage hour, sex education is a damn human right so we can avoid messing up each others’ lives at a young age because we have more complex life goals and needs than a sea slug.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk, you’ve been a wonderful audience.

[correction: while I thought I’d seen nudibranchs side by side with *two* bridges, I can’t find images, so I’m guessing my brain merged the sea hares and the other nudies in my memory. Mea culpa.]

[chasingrainbowsforever]

Bark and leaves of red eucalyptus. Caracollera station. (Real City)

[johnmalevolent]

coping from BACK PAIN ueheggrf. retches

also tbh hijikata rly shouldn't work that much at his age precisely bcs he's only 28