#Franklinia

[thebotanicalarcade]

n13_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Jardin de la Malmaison A Paris :De l'imprimerie de Crapelet, et se trouve chez l'auteur ...,1803-1804. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43441889

[frothytundra]

Fried Egg Plant

If there is a plant with more names than the Fried Egg plant, I would be very surprised. This lovely tree is growing near my home and is just now coming into bloom. When I went to check it out online I discovered that it has multiple identities. I think it may be a villain on the run. Here is the Fried Egg plant, Gordonia plant, or Polyspora axillaris. It is also referred to by its other…

[headspace-hotel]

also. late quaternary extinction of a tree species in Eastern North America.

I've posted a little bit in the past about end-pleistocene megafauna extinctions, the overkill hypothesis, and the impact on "humans are the virus" type interpretations of ecology. This tree is the only documented end-Pleistocene plant extinction, which seems really striking, but this paper (from 1999) is like "yeah we haven't really studied it, and pollen deposits don't really allow for distinguishing plants on the species level, and most macrofossil sites have barely been analyzed."

I tried to do some research on end-pleistocene palynology in the USA and found this paper, which if anything gives a decent glimpse into what palynology does and doesn't allow us to analyze, and it is noted that "Nyssa, however, is distinctly entomophilous (Smiley Apiaries 2014), so just about any amount of its pollen in a sample suggests that the plants grew quite close to the site of deposition, where the discarded flowers accumulated. Because Nyssa is exclusively a freshwater entomophilous genus, the presence of its pollen in any significant quantity (>1%, F.J. Rich, personal observation) marks the site of a former freshwater wetland"

In other words, "Nyssa (blackgum) is insect pollinated, so its seriously weird that its pollen shows up in this fossil pollen sample, and would have to mean that there was a big grove of them with flowers falling to the ground right where the sample was collected."

Most of the species detected in this study are wind-pollinated species that are mega abundant and produce shit tons of airborne pollen, and they are identifiable down to either genus or family level. This means we can't say much about plants pollinated by insects, plants that were a small part of the total plants in the area, or plants that differed from modern ones only on species level.

Which means that it's misleading to say "there was only one End-Pleistocene plant extinction in USA" because we couldn't know that either way!

In fact the presence of plants like Torreya, Franklinia, and other "relict" plants along the Gulf Coast with ultra tiny ranges that likely used to be more widespread suggests that tons of plants could have gone extinct during the Last Glacial Maximum, since all it would take is a plant being 5% more intolerant to the glaciated climate than any of the numerous plants that got severely bottlenecked

It seems like the plants haven't gotten as much attention in research and that keeps being interpreted as "nah, there wasn't really an effect on the plants, only animals went extinct mostly" NO!!!!

[webweabings]

LET US LIVE LIKE FLOWER

Flowers: White Franklinia (Franklinia alatamaha); // Purple Delphinium (Delphinium elatum); // Orange Pansy (Viola x wittrockiana); // Green Hellebore (Helleborus argutifoluis corsicus); // Pink Impatiens (Impatiens walleriana); // Blue Flax (Linum usitatissimum)

[carolinawrenn]

Franklin Tree (Franklinia alatamaha)

[sanerontheinside]

what would your perfect forever house look like

Oh god things i don’t think about 👀

Brick/stone for warmth. Fireplace(s). Sunroom for plantsssssss. Outdoor space for roses and other plants—god I want a franklinia and a magnolia and lilacs and pines and tomatoes and some sort of stonefruit tree—

Open plan, tho the kitchen should be well separated. Kitchen should have an island or half-island—not just the meager counter space I’ve got to work with now.

Wood floors. Sue me but I like white/off white/dogwood/eggshell walls. Pale tiles in the bathrooms. I like light ! I like space! space and light are a visual effect best achieved by nice pale colours and mirrors.

A lovely library, shelves with glass doors.

Imma think some more about it now

[tearsoftime0086]

Learned about the franklinia today. Imagine being extinct in the wild - only grown through the care of human hands. There is no place for you out there. People say you are hard to cultivate, easy to rot. Kept alive for preservation's sake, an ornament that caught someone's fancy.

And yet do you care, I ask the tree I see before me. Do you worry about these things? No. You bloom.

[kaitlin-murphy]

"After John James Audubon (American Woodsman)" 2021.

Vintage posters, Franklinia alatamaha seeds, cotton, antique frame, plywood, plexi, glue, hardware, vintage lumber, iron oxide stain, light-reactive sound device, 1950s sound recordings of Vermivora bachmanii, vintage darning egg, vintage needle and spools, Sturnus vulgaris skull, wool socks knitted by Bobby Wilcox, original wallpaper digitally designed using copyright free historic images, printed by SpoonFlower Inc, self-published zine.

I was invited by Goucher College Curator and Director of Exhibitions Alex Ebstein to create this installation for the "Rediscovering Goucher's Lost Museum" exhibition in fall 2021. Documentation photos generously made by Vivian Marie Doering @vivianmariephoto on Instagram.

Artist Statement:

“On the whole, the task of turning Audubon’s original images into marketable engravings proved to be an extremely labor-intensive process that relied, almost immediately, on the work of dozens of artisans, often working directly under Audubon’s ever-critical eye. But the work process went well beyond the engraver’s shop. Unseen and unheralded others likewise made a critical contribution to the project: the papermakers who produced the huge, high-quality sheets Audubon required; the copper smelters who turned raw ore into clean ingots; the miners who extracted the ore from the earth in the first place; and so forth, back through all the prior steps of production. In that sense, The Birds of America was not just an extensive work of art, not just an example of the sole genius of the lone, struggling artist. It was, rather, an ambitious business venture that relied on a complex labor process and an extensive supply chain, an enterprise in which the artist became not just the designer of the work, but the administrative manager of dozens of people, many of whom could be called artists in their own right, and a marketer to prospective customers, many of whom he had to track down wherever he could find them, on both sides of a very wide ocean.”

--Gregory Nobles, John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman, 2017. p103

Beyond the ‘supply chain’ of compensated workers existed a backdrop of the truly Unseen and Unheralded – the enslaved Black people whose supportive labor was violently coerced; and the work of Maria Martin, an ‘artist in [her] own right’ whose labor was given, and taken, freely due to her faith and her standing as an unmarried, white woman in the Antebellum South. Utilizing the exquisite Martin-Audubon collaborative painting, "Bachman's Warbler", as a jumping-off point, this installation is a visual exploration of the cultural and structural scaffolding that made such erasure possible during that era, as well as two examples of natural history showcased by the painting that have been lost and found - the now extinct Bachman's Warbler (Vermivora bachmanii) for which this painting and a few short sound recordings are our best documentation of the species' existence, and Franklin Tree (Franklinia alatamaha) a species native to the southeastern US that narrowly avoided utter extinction thanks to the collectors John and William Bartram, and that now exists in scattered cultivation across the country.

This project is not meant as a wholesale ‘cancel’ of John James Audubon or early American naturalists – whose work, at times disturbingly tainted by prevailing beliefs and customs, nevertheless paved the way for the scientific fields of biology and ecology today. This installation is, rather, an acknowledgment of the conflicted entanglements between history, nature, people, race, gender, ideology, belief, imagery, and power.

Collections are essentially a grandiose form of appropriation, recontextualizing objects for myriad purposes. This installation plays with two traditions: collections and appropriation, by appropriating and recontextualizing Audubon’s work, as well as other historical illustrations from various collections, and using metaphor and allegory as tools to tell the story. It would not have been made possible without the help, labor, and/or support of many unseen and unheralded, including the anonymous archivists at the Internet Archive, New York Public Library Digital Collections, and Cornell’s Macaulay Library, collectors on Ebay, Etsy, Facebook Marketplace, and Bazaar in Hamden, the production team at Spoonflower, and most especially Alex Ebstein, Bobby Wilcox, Seth Adelsberger, Denise Wilcox, Patti Murphy, Wyatt Hersey, Jenny Rieke and Oona McKay.

[leotechevo]

Discover the Top 10 Most Rare Plants in the World

In the vast and diverse world of plants, some species stand out as truly rare and unique. These fascinating plants are often found in remote locations or have very specific growing conditions, making them difficult to find and cultivate. In this article, we will introduce you to the top 10 most rare plants in the world, including the ghost orchid, corpse flower, middlemist red, franklinia, jade vine, Venus flytrap, baobab, Wollemi pine, rafflesia arnoldii, and amorphophallus titanum. Let's dive into the world of rare plants and discover their wonders. from LeoTechEvo https://ift.tt/97s6jY4

[lilither]

ele gecirdim burayi yine nihahahha

[hangingfire]

Custom engraved spinner ring from InfiniteJewelryCA. I regret nothing.

[headspace-hotel]

there's this tree called Franklinia altamaha that is extinct in the wild and originally native to a tiny area of Georgia, USA. it is still available in cultivation as an ornamental tree but it no longer exists in the wild. what the hell

[nanosart]

I finished up this magnolia shoulder piece. I’m super happy with how this has turned out and I really enjoyed working with Brandon who is an environmental lawyer. This is based on the now extinct Awriculata tree, and the endangered Franklinia tree. #awriculata #magnolia #franklinia #magnoliatattoo #magnoliaflower #flowertattoo #floraltattoo #dcartist #dctattoo #dctattooartist #dctattoos #dmvartist #dmvtattoo #dmvtattooartist #dmvtattoos #tattoo #globeelectric #globeelectrictattoos #dctattooshop #theblackmoth #qttr #tattooart (at Globe Electric Tattoo) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpR1xp6Ap1s/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1403z1woijlwi

[unknownbirds]

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Tuesday 10 October 2017

This rare deciduous small tree or large shrub, Franklinia alatamaha (Franklin tree) can sadly no longer be found in the wild. It is the only species in this (monotypic) genus with dark green, glossy leaves that turn bright crimson in the autumn while the fragrant white flowers appear. It has been described as “challenging to grow” needing a rich, moist, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade and disliking root disturbance or drought once established. This beautiful plant was flowering at the Royal Horticultural Society Garden Wisley, Surrey, UK, where I was fortunate to be meeting the new group of Master of Horticulture (MHort) students and the second years.

Jill Raggett

[sanerontheinside]

dreamy 
• Franklinia tree • 
#goldenhour #goldenhourlight #njbotanicalgardens #ringwoodstatepark #franklinia • #vscocam 
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