#asterids

[plant-taxonomy-showdown]

Bonus Round 1/Semi-finals: Asterids vs Other Core Eudicots!

Spiky vs Toxic

Asterids: Down to earth, practical, and here to mess you up. The clade of potatoes, olive oil, coffee, dandelions, tobacco, and poison hemlock. RIP Socrates.

Other Core Eudicots: An ornery bunch, here we’ve got carnivorous plants, cacti, spinach, currants, and…tumbleweed? Also sandlewood, because this paraphyletic group likes to smell nice when it goes into the ring.

(What's a eudicot? The class that won the previous round. More info here. Many taxonomic categories can be divided up into "basal" and "core" members, the basal ones splitting off the evolutionary tree relatively early on, while the core ones have a more recent common ancestor.)

[lasciviess]

Snapdragons, Chapter 12: Attempts at Ataraxia

The day breaks after reunion and with it comes a flood of uncertainty about what the future holds: not just for their arrangement, but for so much more.

After a 2 year hiatus, I hope you enjoy and I'll see you soon <3

[wikipediapictures]

Anthriscus sylvestris

[chlorophyll-and-chitin]

Convolvulus sabatius

07-DEC-2022

Melbourne, Vic

[tenth-sentence]

And when he burst into a rapid series of lighter notes she was not surprised to see primroses suddenly appearing in every direction.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew" - C. S. Lewis

[deathtek]

8/18/24

[that-crazy-scorpio-man]

Chittim wood (Sideroxylon lanuginosum)

[floragender]

[ID: 2 flags with 5 horizontal stripes. The stripes from top to bottom are purple, pastel purple, purplish white, white, pastel green. In the center of the second flag is a lavender burst of tapered oval shapes.]

Hello, dear! Can I request a Lavenderiae flag from you? Lavenderiae is a xenogender related to lavenders. I just felt that this label suits me, but there are no flag.

yeah!! here you go! i really like how it turned out so i hope you too too :D if theres anything you want changed feel free to ask !

[plant-taxonomy-showdown]

Bonus Round Finals! Basal Eudicots vs Asterids!

🌻 vs 🪷

Basal Eudicots: Here be funky flowers: the sacred lotus, poppies, the king protea of South Africa and the waratah of Australia. Also, macademia nuts.

Asterids: Down to earth, practical, and here to mess you up. The clade of potatoes, olive oil, coffee, dandelions, tobacco, and poison hemlock. RIP Socrates.

(Edit: Basal Eudicots with an A, not with an I, nothing to do with basil -- basil is in the asterids, actually -- OOPS guess I should have checked for typos before posting.)

[lasciviess]

here are some new snapdragons "headcanons" from twitter (or, retrospring, rather). i did this years ago: just provided silly little world details for fun, and someone asked me for more, so i provided. figured i'd post them here too if anyone was interested :)

the first shitty, used car that dream got in high school was the most horrific shade of brownish-yellow that he's ever seen and his friends DID absolutely drag him for it, so every single car he's gotten since has been a painfully boring gray to compensate for that trauma

dream is genuinely afraid of dogs, despite his deep desire to not be. he pet his neighbor's pomeranian when he first moved in and it's just about the bravest thing he's done in a while

(this will mean nothing if you've never been to chicago but this one is for me only) one of george's coworkers dragged him all the way out to kasia's immediately after he moved in, and he has been veritably obsessed with pierogis ever since. he makes the hour-long hike every other month to stock his freezer because he SWEARS the prepackaged ones they sell in the local grocery stores don't taste the same

cat has this dumb neon yellow collar with bows all over it that george bought as a joke, but it's been two years and he's starting to think it's not a joke anymore

dream isn't the most outdoorsy guy, but he got dragged into camping in the eastern sierra nevadas with some of his friends in college and it immediately became one of his favorite places on earth

george had hamsters growing up, and absolutely lost his seven-year-old mind when the first one died. there's still a little single-brick tombstone in the family home's back garden, even though the text george had painted on it has long since worn off from exposure to the sun and the rain

on george's second time staying over at dream's, he snored incredibly loudly for a solid hour, and dream has just chosen to never, ever bring this up. it hasn't happened again since

down the line (meaning: when they're together), they try to buy a bigger cat tree and spend about three weeks viciously bickering about it before simply not buying one because it turns out that patches is now enamored with an old hat box that dream picked up at a flea market one saturday

george has, in fact, picked up all of dream's streaming passwords since they started their arrangement. during their period of separation, dream would occasionally check george's profiles to see what he was watching. it was all nature shows, for some reason (this is about me sobbing over albatrosses while rewatching Planet Earth after my first break up)

[wikipediapictures]

Prostanthera striatiflora

[floragender]

[ID: 3 flags with 9 horizontal stripes. The last 4 stripes are wavy. The colors from top to bottom are dark slate blue, muted purple, pastel rose, pale pink, pastel purple, pastel blue-purple, off black, pastel magenta, royal purple. Overlaid on the first and third flags are two separate drawings of a bundle of lavender sprigs.]

Starrylavenfieldean (starry - laven - field - ean)

☾◦.•✧⚬. ∙☆⋆∘• .☽

Definition:

A gender related to lavender fields, purple and pink night sky’s with stars and clouds, and looking up at the night sky while laying in a lavender field

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day 6, 7, and 10: clouds, lavender, and starry skies // as part of @mogai-sunflowers coining event

[image ID: a banner with a blue background with a white grid on it. on the left is a cutout of cinnamoroll who is waving and riding a blue skateboard. On the right is pink text that reads “please read DNI before interacting” ID end]

[chlorophyll-and-chitin]

Digitalis sp.

09-OCT-2022

Melbourne, Vic

[deathtek]

8/9/24

[wikipediapictures]

Yareta

[hasellia]

*me walking up to a cardoon*

Umm... Ch-chh-cheesed to meet you...

Cardoon, aka artichoke thistle, from the top down.

Exhibited at the Clark County fair by Andrea Sayler