#annual plant

[botanyshitposts]

ok INCREDIBLY old content originally meant for this blog but in 2018 when i was just a wee lad with a little spinner propeller hat and big rainbow lollipop i went to a carnivorous plant convention in california and met a bunch of people who breed/collect/study these guys. one person was this collector who was slowly working on leaving the hobby or at least no longer growing plants, and he had a bunch of carnivorous plant related files he was charging like 50 cents for or something, and so i came into possession of these, which are examples of the kind of paperwork you have to have done to legally ship/trade endangered species of both plants and animals. functionally very boring paperwork, but something i found like, incredibly fascinating. i blacked out the personal id of the person and then immediately forgot to ever upload them, lmao.

these plants were bred and raised in a greenhouse and sold abroad, not taken from the wild, but because the species are endangered and often protected in their native countries (most of these are nepenthes, asian pitcher plants, a huge family spread throughout oceania and southeast asia), there's a lot more documentation that needs to be done regardless of their origin, both on the end of the seller and on the end of the buyer.

the rabbit hole on carnivorous plant trade is deep and kind of wild. there's plenty of common, non-threatened, greenhouse-grown pitcher plants on the market that people buy all the time, even non-collectors, but there's a whole debate to be had on if it's morally okay to be collecting the more endangered/rare of these plants in the first place. the big argument for breeding is that breeding them in captivity means there's more supply that's not poached from the wild, meaning poachers have less of an incentive to take the risk of taking adult plants from their habitats; from what i've heard, sometimes countries will issue permits for breeders to collect some wild seeds just to create a non-wild breeding pool to drive down the price. predictably, however, you also get people who are very much willing to pay a lot of money to get as rare of a plant as possible.

anyone familiar with the allure valuable plants have had over people throughout history can imagine the rest, but here's an article about a guy who started buying poached plants to enrich his private nepenthes collection, who then got busted by a fish and wildlife service agent embedded in his carvirorous plant circle. the plants this guy was buying were being sold to him without any CITES paperwork or declarations like the ones above; it was literally just a guy in indonesia taking rare plants from the woods around where he lived, selling them over facebook marketplace and ebay, and mailing them overseas as an undeclared 'gift' to get around customs. frighteningly small steps to take on all sides, to be honest.

(also, fun fact: another example of carnivorous plants that get poached are wild venus fly traps, which are only native to north and south carolina in the US. from what i understand it's a mix of people who genuinely did not know it's a native species and people who really are just going out into the woods and digging up plants to sell online. sometimes poaching is closer to home than you'd think!)

anyway. wild and interesting times in the land of plants recovered from a hard drive lmao

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Closest match: Mercurialis annua genome assembly, chromosome: LG2 Common name: Annual mercury

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 11 September 2024

An easily grown annual Nemophila menziesii (baby blue eyes) is a relatively low growing plant that is covered all summer in blue-and-white, saucer-shaped flowers. It needs a sheltered, partially shaded position, and is great combined with other bedding plants in a container or at the front of a border.

Jill Raggett

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Tom Hallman, from JCA Annual (1990)

[geopsych]

So.

Today two family members ill-advisedly took me to two separate garden centers and told me to go wild and get what I want for my containers this year as a birthday present. And well yeah, this happened.

[charlesreeza]

I had no idea this Devil's Trumpet (double purple datura) would get so large! The flowers are pretty, but I won't grow another one. Now I have to find all the seed pods and destroy them along with every other part of this highly toxic plant that came with no warning label.

[landwriter]

a different kind of bird’s-eye-view

this one goes out to the robins who hop around my garden

[xofeno]

🌱 HAPPY EARTH DAY 🍅

[blogbirdfeather]

Annual Rockrose - Alcar (Tuberaria guttata)

Cascais/Portugal (5/04/2024)

[Nikon D850; ∑150mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM APO Macro with Circular Flash Nissin  MF 18; 1/250s; F22; 400 ISO]

[faguscarolinensis]

Erigeron annuus / Annual Fleabane at William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor in Detroit, MI

[nightseeye]

Waow my son... shes so beautiful!

[jils-things]

oh my goshh im only now realizing just how awesome the Call of the Abyss events are rnn 😭😭

[cantankerouscatfish]

water my own dang shoes multiple times a week keeping thousands and thousands of plants alive. it's not FARMING though. it's. technically agriculture, according to the state. but. listen,,

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Tuesday 10 September 2024

This gently coloured bedding display at Inverness Botanic Garden, Scotland, included Cosmos bipinnatus 'Apricotta' with these burnished apricot and peach petals with raspberry pink centres, edged with pink. This usual cultivar was winner of a Fleuroselect Novelty award for 2021.

Jill Raggett

[thedisablednaturalist]

Can someone explain perennial and annual to me in simple terms. For some reason those concepts cannot breach my brain fog and I always get confused by them.

[plantanarchy]

it was 28F when i woke up this morning and my immediate first thought was. what is the percentage of people who have already bought expensive tropical plants, put them outside, and just killed them to death.