#cucumber tree

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Friday 12 January 2024

In a tropical glasshouse a small tree Averrhoa bilimbi (bilimbi, cucumber tree, tree sorrel) was flowering. After the clusters of flowers finish the sour tasting, yellowish green fruit develop and are used for medicinal purposes in many tropical and subtropical countries.

Jill Raggett

[laur-kay]

[lemonlemonfry]

[inthecityofgoodabode]

September 2024: The First Week

Wednesday harvest - complete with rat chewed eggplants:

Thursday harvest:

Saturday harvest:

Ruby-throated hummingbird sub-adult. It didn't have most of its adult colors & its mom would still occasionally come & feed it:

The outcome of Sunday's bank fishing trip & that night's dinner. We only caught one but, if you only end up catching one fish, this is a good size:

[secrettreestuffidk]

y'know. bible never says what kind of fruit the Fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the garden of eden was. it's usually depicted as an apple but it quite certainly wasnt. thats the only thing we know for sure it's not actually an apple.

im just saying. it coulda been anything.

coulda been a durian

[queerdiazs]

moodboard tag game 🫧

rules: post a picture of a place, animal, plant, season, character, hobby, color, gemstone, and food that reminds you of yourself/represents you

[place: sans bois mountains, oklahoma] [animal: black bear] [plant: magnolia tree] [season: autumn] [character: eddie diaz] [hobby: writing] [color: green] [gemstone: moss agate] [food: cucumbers and onions in vinegar]

i was tagged by @puppyboybuckley, @thewolvesof1998, and @devirnis

tagging @spagheddiediaz, @jeeyuns, @exhuastedpigeon, @actualalligator, @honestlydarkprincess, and @evanbegins if any of you wanna ✨

[potatomushroompy]

Cool sunset

[radishhqueen]

your 20s are for becoming allergic to new things, apparently

[snekdood]

i both love and hate that i keep finding different moths in my house. why are they here? i dont want them to get caught on the sticky traps i put out for the flies. but also, very fun to see so many different varieties and knowing my garden probably plays a role somehow.

[fictional-worlds-are-exquisite]

I’m starting to think people have vegetable gardens and fruit bushes/trees here for the sole purpose of going ‘well! it looks like I’ve grown way too much to eat myself! Guess I’ll have to give at least half of this away to neighbours, family, friends, random people on the street, etc!’

[louderfade]

The Cucumber Tree Magnolia (Magnolia accuminata) in Colonial Heights, Virginia sits in front of the Violet Bank Museum overlooking the Appomattox River and Old Town Petersburg. When viewing the tree for the first time, it looks almost comical in size and stature next to the relatively small museum building with its white peeling paint. This particular Cucumber Tree Magnolia is also estimated to be the second largest of its species in the world, with a nearly 23-foot circumference, making it that much more spectacular.

The idea of a record-holding tree usually conjures images of extremely tall trees with enormous towering crowns, but that is not this tree. Instead it’s almost the inverse with a relatively stout height but an extreme girth and outstretched, over-extended limbs that are trees in their own right. The first main scaffold limbs on the tree are at least 24 inches in diameter. They gracefully extend until their massive weight pulls them to rest on the ground.

Viewed up close, a variety of failed arboricultural practices can be seen almost as a museum in itself. Large pilings have been placed in the ground to hold up several of the low limbs, which can be argued do as much if not more damage than the tree supporting itself on the ground.  Scattered throughout the canopy are decades worth of steel cables and supports that long-ago arborists installed to maintain the tree and with time many of them have broken or gone slack. It’s most interesting to see such failed support systems hanging from limbs that have once again provided their own support on the soil.

[roksim]

Growing A Tree To Climb!!

Boom folks!! Decided to show off something I just finished - you can plant seeds in pots and grow trees!! In this gif, you already collected the seed, but you'd need to gain them by doing various tasks in the final game! Also, who is that in the corner?? Mm, no big deal, just your trusty helper companion!! Yass!!!!

[g-g-gh00st]

Normal people would be arguing about whether or not a tomato is a fruit while I seethe in the corner because a large majority of vegetables are actually fruit but are called vegetables literally for aesthetic reasons and it kills me

[inthecityofgoodabode]

October 2024: The First Week

I wish this image was just a little sharper because the subject posed perfectly:

Saturday's harvest from the front yard volunteers:

We drove across the bridge into Arkansas in search of fish. This was our first stop. The water looked fishy but nothing was biting:

A mystery at the edge of some flooded hardwood bottomland:

We spent the rest of the day hitting different little ponds along the highway back to Memphis. We caught some fish... bluegill, pumpkinseeds & a couple of crappie but all were too small to bring home.

The last pond we fished. The yellow decoy duck in the background that someone chunked in the pond is a nice touch:

Reflection in the rear window of a 24 year old:

Sunday harvest:

I wished I could have gotten closer to this warbler who stopped off in our backyard on its migration:

[brookeesblog]

Well hey..

after I took sometime off it made me realise how much of a tumblr girl I am, it’s good to go back to your roots. xx

- Love B

[kaybeebioorganics]

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