#Psittacinae

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[1832/10977] Brown-necked parrot - Poicephalus fuscicollis

Order: Psittaciformes (parrots) Superfamily: Psittacoidea (true parrots) Family: Psittacidae (holotropical parrots) Subfamily: Psittacinae

Photo credit: Nicholas Fordyce via Macaulay Library

[mycoblogg]

I love the look of mushrooms and I was wondering your favourite ones based on looks

this is such a good ask !! i'll be limiting myself to three, otherwise we'll be here all day-

wrinkled peach (FOTD coming soon<3) // rhodotus.

pixie's parasol (FOTD coming in, like, two days !!) // mycena interrupta.

parrot waxcap (FOTD.. sometime..) // hygrocybe psittacina.

[thebotanicalarcade]

n66_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Illustrations of North American pitcherplants,. Washington, D.C.,The Smithsonian Institution,1935.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43245118

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Random PNGs, part 158.

(1. Hygrocybe psittacina (parrot toadstool), 2. Pineapple lamp, 3. Pudding purse, 4. Apples, 5. Lime-green waxy cap mushroom, 6. ”Fujitaja bag series” product sticker, 7. Squid by Hine Mizushima, 8. Retro tropical pudding gacha toy, 9. Mushroom)

[helalokithor]

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Alstroemeria psittacina, with the common names Peruvian lily, parrot flower, parrot lily, lily of the Incas, princess lily and New Zealand Christmas bell, is a species of flowering plant in the family Alstroemeriaceae.

Info found on Wikipedia

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Parrot Wax Cap Mushroom (Hygrocybe psittacina)

Photo: @Timothy Boomer.

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Mushroom Pic Of The Day

malformalady: “ Hygrocybe psittacina, commonly known as the Parrot Toadstool or Parrot Waxcap, is a colourful member of the genus Hygrocybe, the waxcaps, found across Northern Europe.

[hollowtones]

Do you have a favorite mushroom? Mine is the Parrot Waxcap (aka: Hygrocybe psittacina) its so pretty looking! Also apparently edible?

I don't know any specific kinds other than chicken of the woods, but I love polypores. They're the shelf-looking mushrooms that like growing on trees.

[phytophiliac]

Sarracenia x Dainas (or Dana's) Delight is an unofficial Sarracenia cultivar. Daina's Delight was developed by Mark Edwards in the 1990s, and is named after his daughter Daina. The use of the name Dana, derived from a misspelling on labels from the tissue culture lab. It is a complex hybrid of ((S. psittacina x purpurea) x (purpurea x (flava x purpurea)) x leucophylla. #Sarracenia #Daina'sDelight #Dana'sDelight #carnivorousplant #insectivorousplant #pitcherplant #CUgreenhouse (at CU Greenhouse)

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[2048/11056] Cape parrot - Poicephalus robustus

Order: Psittaciformes (parrots) Superfamily: Psittacoidea (true parrots) Family: Psittacidae (holotropical parrots) Subfamily: Psittacinae

Photo credit: Rick Bowers via Macaulay Library

[mycoblogg]

Wettest fungi? The top 3 i know are hydnellum peckii, the wrinkled peach and the parrot waxcap

i'm sorry this just made me giggle so hard........

but, uh, yeah !! both h. peckii & the wrinkled peach perform an action called guttation, which is functionally similar to sweat :-) that would make it quite a wet fungus.

& the parrot waxcap is very slimy !! so i suppose they would be.. (checks notes) ..the top 3 wettest fungi?

interestingly, mushrooms can be up to 93% water, so some specimens will leak water when you squeeze them - especially after a big rain !!

[thebotanicalarcade]

n24_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: The floral magazine; London,L. Reeve & Co. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46012922

[beautiful-things-things]

Loriini is a tribe of small to medium-sized arboreal parrots characterized by their specialized brush-tipped tongues for feeding on nectar of various blossoms and soft fruits, preferably berries. The species form a monophyletic group within the parrot family Psittaculidae. The group consists of the lories and lorikeets. Traditionally, they were considered a separate subfamily (Loriinae) from the other subfamily (Psittacinae) based on the specialized characteristics, but recent molecular and morphological studies show that the group is positioned in the middle of various other groups. They are widely distributed throughout the Australasian region, including south-eastern Asia, Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste and Australia, and the majority have very brightly coloured plumage.

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Didn't find anything that quite matched these. May be very pale Hygrocybe psittacina.

[dendroica]

The Blue-winged Amazon: A new parrot species from the Yucatan Peninsula

The newly identified Blue-winged Amazon parrot has a loud, short call and evolved from the White-fronted parrot quite recently, about 120,000 years ago. In 2014, during a visit to a remote part of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, ornithologist Dr. Miguel A. Gómez Garza came across parrots with a completely different colour pattern from other known species.

A study published today in the open-access journal PeerJ names these birds as a new species based on its distinctive shape, colour pattern, call and behaviour. The paper compares and contrasts the distinguishing features of this species with many other parrots.

The new parrot (Amazona gomezgarzai), referred to as the Blue-winged Amazon because of its primarily blue covert feathers, is characterized by its unique green crown that contrast to blue in other Amazon parrots. This new parrot occupies a similar area in the Yucatán Peninsula as the Yucatán Amazon (A. xantholora) and the White-fronted Amazon (A. albifrons nana) but it does not hybridize with them.

A very distinctive feature of the new taxon is its call, which is loud, sharp, short, repetitive and monotonous; one particular vocalization is more reminiscent of an Accipiter than of any known parrot. The duration of syllables is much longer than in other Amazon parrot species. In flight, the call is a loud, short, sharp and repetitive yak-yak-yak. While perched, the call is mellow and prolonged.

This species lives in small flocks of less than 12 individuals. Pairs and their offspring have a tendency to remain together and are discernible in groups. Like all members of the genus Amazona, this parrot is a herbivore. Its diet consists of seeds, fruits, flowers and leaves obtained in the tree canopy.

The analysis of mitochondrial DNA genes indicates that the blue-winged Amazon has emerged quite recently, or about 120,000 years ago, from within the A. albifrons population. During this time, the taxon differentiated sufficiently to be clearly recognizable as a new species.

There is no conservation program currently in effect to preserve this parrot but its small range and rarity should make its conservation a priority.

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Parrot Flower (Impatiens Psittacina)