#Nymphaeales

[plant-taxonomy-showdown]

Class Round 2: Monocots vs Nymphaeales

The World's Largest Commodities By Tonnage vs A Good Sign The Water is Safe To Drink

Monocots: The second largest taxon in Magnoliophyta, with 70,000 species. Narrow leaves with parallel veins are a good sign you’re looking at a monocot, as are plants that grow from bulbs, like onions, garlic, and tulips. Do you need to touch grass? Monocot. Do you want to bake a cake? Wheat, sugar cane, and the orchids that produce vanilla extract are all monocots.

Nymphaeales: A basal clade of Magnoliophyta that contains the water lily family, and other aquatic plants with prominent flowers. Water lilies with larger flowers and more complex parts are pollinated by beetles -- they were initially believed to be plants that evolved earlier, but while Nymphaeales as a whole did diverge early, the ones with more flower parts did not diverge earlier than the ones with fewer flower parts. Water lilies were used as an indicator of water cleanliness in the Maya civilization, were a symbol of the Maya elite, and were likely used in a religious context to induce altered states of consciousness.

[snototter]

Uape Jacana giant water lilies (Victoria amazonica) in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

by Brian Henderson

[deathtek]

8/16/22

[ddarker-dreams]

Nexus Trivia

A/N: to commemorate the final chapter of nexus' main storyline, i wanted to string together some trivia relating to the story/its creation process!

Nexus index.

When planning out this story, I wanted to draw from Greek mythology because I felt some of the motifs/themes would mesh well. Some of the references are more evident than others. These references include:

The planet Eris' name, owing to the goddess of discord/strife.

Ania, Reader's mother, is the personification of ache and anguish.

Chrysus, the spirit of gold.

Caicias, god of the northeast wind.

The quadrant Reader lives in, Thelx, is a shortened version of Thelxinoë. This name is attributed both to a siren and one of the four Titan muses. Charming minds was her area of expertise.

The name of Reader's business, the LOTUS-EATER, is a reference to (surprise) the lotus-eaters mentioned in Homer's Odyssey. An island where people pass their days leisurely in fantasy felt fitting for the Synalink business.

As for Reader/N darling, her motifs draw from the goddess of the soul, Psyche. There's also hints of Persephone in there because well. Blade and his connection to death/his obsession that disturbed Reader's mother parallels Hades and Demeter.

The inspiration for Reader's last name, Phaeales, is a shortened version of Nymphaeales, an order of flowering plants. Lotus' fall under this category. Coincidentally, the name for the largest butterfly family is Nymphalidae. Reader and Psyche are both associated with butterflies/butterfly wings. These shared prefixes went on to form the basis for the humanoid long-life species found on Eris, Nymphalians.

Since there was so much butterfly stuff fluttering about, I was like hey, why not commit to the bit. So some of the areas in Eris are named after flower parts. There's Perianth, the outer part of a flower, and the nectary, which is where, unsurprisingly, nectar is formed.

Nectar guides, the railroad system on Eris, references the special markings on flowers by the same name. Nectar guides are those lil lines that guide pollinators to their pollen and nectar.

Okay enough etymology for now. The one thing I kept from my first outline is Nexus' ending, I changed just about everything else. The ending felt like such a gut punch that I couldn't just change it into a one-shot, it wouldn't hit the same.

There was going to be more philosophy but I spared everyone that. Originally, I associated Blade with determinism, Reader with rational-egoism, Nona with nihility, and Lear with humanism. There's still some traces of this but I toned it down a bit 😭

I didn't spare everyone from Freud though, which might be worse tbh. Reader's character was roughly built around his concept of the ego, Nona, the id, and Lear, the superego.

[felsjustart]

Phew. This ended up being a fairly great way to test and figure out what and where my limitations are with my right eye being currently completely nonfunctional. Detailed blah-blah beneath the cut!

Got to trial filigree-type detailing, different fabrics, metals, armor, gems and the extremes of colors & shades. I found I'm struggling with differentiating colors in the darker parts of the spectrum (looking at you blues and blacks :angryeyes:), but I figured out that using opacity on dark layers really helped me navigate that challenge at least. I found I fatigued faster doing the heavy detailing on her chest-plate; lots of little repeated minor eye movements meant things got a little muddled as I was working, but I tried to just… paint on top of things when that happened to sort of smooth out and simplify the process. Warm-ups take longer than usual as I retrain my eye-hand-coordination to essentially ignore input from my right eye and I seem to need lots of 'eye breaks' wherein I look at something outside of the screen to stop myself just tunnel visioning right into eyestrain/headache hell.

I'm pretty sure I'll be able to handle commissions; just think they might go a little slower this time. Trying to be nice to myself and let some mistakes just be what they are. I almost forgot how to freaking color hair completely while doing this piece! I managed to hodge-podge it into working, but I'm not so sure I like the end result as much. Gonna have to remember to plot things out a little more in the future. I ended up making a light and a dark version, cause idk which one I like best! Thank you once again Wifey (@nymphaeale) for letting me use your Kallie in my chaotic experiment huehuehue.

[hyba]

Just finished editing Chapter 3 of Murder in Heliopolis.

Nymphaeales on the Floats is such a critical chapter as it currently stands:

Laith visits Nymphaeales, which is one of my favourite settings, and figures out something's wrong with PATET while having a cozy dinner with his wife.

Fleur Verdi, Cassia's assistant, is introduced. She stonewalls Laith when he asks to see Cassia's office, and enters it after he leaves.

Grot Antrum, a PATET Specialist, is introduced, and it's obvious he's involved in something shady. He comes back to his apartment to find an intruder lying in wait.

This one took me a while to get through, mainly because I added three new POV scenes, and Grot's were two of them. His scenes in particular was a little tricky to write, because I'm still trying to get a clear picture of his role in the whole mystery from this early on in the story.

On a more personal note, I've also been very distracted these past couple of days. It's a struggle to focus on writing when you're bombarded with the terrible suffering of people around the world. To look away feels like a crime, but to see it is heartbreaking.

So, yeah. It's been a bit hard to write or read or do much of anything.

[dream-world-universe]

Water lily

The term nenúfar applies, by the general, to aquatic plantes with flowers growing in llagos, llagunes, llamargues, banzaos or slow-running wars, usually taking root in the anchorage. The nannies belong to the families Nymphaeaceae, Cabombaceae of the order Nymphaeales, Nelumbonaceae of the order Proteales and also to the genus Nymphoides of the family Menyanthaceae of the order Asterales and the genus Hydrocleys of the family Alismataceae of the order Alismatales. Vease caúna d'estos trés families o unu d'estos dos xéneros pa datos más específicos. Les fueyes de los nenúfares comunes pueden ser dos tipos:

Nenúfar - Wikipedia

Nénuphar — Wikipédia (wikipedia.org)

Nenúfar - Wikipedia

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Autor: Olga Guedes

[plant-taxonomy-showdown]

Class Round 1: Nymphaeales vs Ceratophyllales

Water Lilies vs Aquarium Plants

Nymphaeales: A basal clade of Magnoliophyta that contains the water lily family, and other aquatic plants with prominent flowers. Water lilies with larger flowers and more complex parts are pollinated by beetles -- they were initially believed to be plants that evolved earlier, but while Nymphaeales as a whole did diverge early, the ones with more flower parts did not diverge earlier than the ones with fewer flower parts. Water lilies were used as an indicator of water cleanliness in the Maya civilization, were a symbol of the Maya elite, and were likely used in a religious context to induce altered states of consciousness.

Ceratophyllales: Core Magnoliophytes that are very closely related to the eudicots. These aquatic plants are found all over the world, and are known as coontails or hornworts (though they are not related to the non-vascular hornworts from the phylum battle.) Ceratophyllum demersum is sold as an aquarium plant, and is considered invasive in Tasmania and New Zealand, where it has been known to interfere with hydroelectric power plants.

[terranlifeform]

Water lily (Nymphaea sp.) canopy in Switzerland

scubaluna

[letsjustbecatsok]

yeah i gotta say nothing like a strange plant/something weird a plant does to suck you in to a research black hole. *me doing what is SUPPOSED TO BE like 10 minutes of casual research on Brasenia schreberi*: i must not get sucked in, i must not get sucked in, i must not get sucked in, wait what that’s fucking crazy i need to look tha- I MUST NOT GET SUCKED IN I MUST NOT GET SUCKED IN!!!!!

anyway so Brasenia schreberi is an aquatic plant in the order Nymphaeales (with true water lilies) that fucking makes. thick slimy mucous that coats all the parts of the plant that are underwater. and it’s flowers surface two days in a row: on the first day the carpels (’female’ parts) are exposed, and then it ducks the flower back underwater overnight, and on the second day the flower surfaces again and the stamen (’male’ parts) are exposed. and in the fall it puts a bunch of nutrients in the tips of its stems, grows little dwarf leaves to enclose it, coats that in mucous, and drops all the little tips? and they just sit in the mud over winter and then in spring grow into new plants???? what the actual fuck is this plant doing???????

fellas im gonna be honest with you. the reason why i havent been posting on here as much is bc i was/am working on a video essay about some wack plant stuff but the more research i do the more i am confronted with the state of change in all living things and its turning less into a video on the alternation of generations and more into a creative nonfiction writing piece, which is bad because one of my goals with this was to produce something i could use to help me possibly inch towards a science communication job down the line and i have no idea what to actually do with a creative nonfiction writing piece, because if my original idea was to teach people about the alternation of generations this is far beyond the original scope of this, and like. ohh my god dude it's just like. ahhhh the horrors and whatnot ahhhh lmao

[felsjustart]

Trying to stretch & do a heavy warm-up before opening commissions to figure out where I'm gonna have troubles with my one eye being completely obscured; turns out a lot of it is in perspective and sizing. Thankfully being a digital artist gives me tons of access to things like the transform & distort tools 😭 next up is colors to see which parts of that spectrum is gonna be hard to see/distinguish between. hopefully it's not gonna be too bad lol but I'll see (or maybe I wont lmao) Thank you wifey (@nymphaeale) for letting me use your pretty Kallie for this! I enjoy DMing for her 😘

[wonder-rooms]

Water Lily, Victoria amazonica (1854) - William Sharp

[im-an-anthusiast]

Um Nymphaeales?

Well, you get to deal with me being a nerd now because my name is based on one of the things I know too much about

Let's start with.... taxonomy!

First hint, it's kingdom is Plantae

Oh cutie is your name botany related? That's adorable <3

Please be a nerdddd to meee morreeeeee

[dendroica]

Western Yellow Pond-Lily, Nuphar polysepala (by me)

[that-crazy-scorpio-man]

This place looks way different from when I first started coming in October.