#deciduous shrub

[margocooper]

Яркие листья Магонии падуболистной (Mahonia aquifolium) в каплях дождя. Ноябрь 24. Bright leaves of Mahonia aquifolium in raindrops. November 24.

[heavenly-garden]

Shooting Star Hydrangea

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Sunday 27 October 2024

The wonderful autumn foliage colours of Rhus × pulvinata Autumn Lace Group (sumac). This is a spreading, suckering, deciduous shrub with decorate foliage and yellow-green flowers which are followed in autumn by spherical, bristly red fruit.

Jill Raggett

[stopandlook]

Scientific Name: Sapindus saponaria var. drummondii or Sapindus drummondii Common Name(s): Western soapberry Family: Sapindaceae (soapberry) Life Cycle: Perennial Leaf Retention: Deciduous Habit: Tree, shrub USDA L48 Native Status: Native Location: Allen, Texas Season(s): Winter

It’s called soapberry because you can make soap from it!

Soapberries are also offered commercially “soap nuts,” though the ones I’ve seen for sale are Sapindus mukorossi, which is a species native to Asia.

Speaking of species, the genus Sapindus comprises about 12 species. I’m guessing the exact number isn’t settled because, as in the case here, whether this plant is a subspecies or its own species depends on whom you ask. The USDA Plants Database shows that S. saponaria is native to the southern U.S., from the Atlantic coast to Arizona, whereas var. drummondii only exists west of the Mississippi River. This difference is apparently enough for iNaturalist and its taxon authority POWO to elevate it to the full species level.

The fruits are about ½″ (12 mm) in diameter and form in the summer; they are pale green and opaque when young before maturing to a translucent amber in the fall.

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[zegalba]

Stachyurus

the only genus in the flowering plant family Stachyuraceae, native to the Himalayas and eastern Asia. They are deciduous shrubs or small trees with pendent racemes of 4-petalled flowers which appear on the bare branches before the leaves.

[candont]

Thinking about: the act of writing in its raw, uncut form, as a kind of religious experience—as a kind of transport—is such a strange thing to have encompassed and upheld by routine and ritual, by faith’s grind, like you were walking uphill to temple every day, and of course you bring your saman pichcha and light the little clay lamps, coconut oil on your fingers; you sit cross-legged in the hot, grainy sand to say the dead words, during which you think of your dead, and theirs, and theirs, multiplying overhead like a great bone tree rising into the sky. No, that’s all a bit grim, isn’t it? Let’s say instead you’re like a mime practicing a bit. First you elaborately draw a door in the air, marking out hinge and latch and doorknob, finding an imaginary key in your pocket, feigning surprise—you insert and turn it in the lock which does not exist, and it goes click and you push it open and walk through. Some days there is nothing through the door, though you have to open it anyway to find out. And some days you walk through into an altered landscape. Everything looks the same, and in fact everything is the same, because after all this was only mime and it was an imaginary door, except now the room is redder in your eyes and there is music in the air.

https://vajra.me/2018/08/28/jasminum-grandiflorum/

[aimsterskitz0rz]

🌸🍃 #Azaleas at #walterjonespark #Rhododendron #Tsutsusi #Pentanthera #Ericaceae #Deciduous or #evergreen #shrub (at Walter Jones Historical Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoAz_Uhul3Z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[spooninabowl]

My wife planted this Japanese Snowball tree in the backyard many years ago and we enjoy the beautiful flowers every year. I took this photo in my home in Quebec during the month of June 2022.

Prints available: https://bit.ly/3ZRNF4h

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Word List: Sweet

beautiful words with "sweet" to try to include in your poem/story

Bittersweet - pleasure accompanied by suffering or regret; being at once bitter and sweet

Meadowsweet - any of several spireas

Oversweet - excessively sweet; cloying

Presweeten - to make (a food or beverage) sweet or sweeter in advance and especially during manufacture or preparation

Sweetbells - an eastern North American deciduous shrub (Leucothoe racemosa) with pinkish flowers in long racemes

Sweetberry - sheepberry i.e., a North American shrub or small tree (Viburnum lentago) having white flowers in flat cymes

Sweetbread - the thymus or pancreas of a young animal (such as a calf) used for food

Sweetbriar - an Old World rose (especially Rosa eleganteria) with stout recurved prickles and white to deep rosy-pink single flowers; called also eglantine

Sweetening - something that sweetens

Sweetfish - ayu i.e., a small salmonlike anadromous fish (Plecoglossus altivelis) of Japan that is highly esteemed as a food fish

Sweetflag - any of a genus (Acorus) of perennial herbaceous plants that are typically found in wetlands of the northern hemisphere and have long narrow leaves and aromatic roots

Sweetgrass - a slender fragrant perennial grass (Hierochloe odorata) that typically grows in moist soils and is used especially in basketry

Sweetish - somewhat sweet; unpleasantly sweet

Sweetroot - licorice

Sweetshop - a candy store

Sweetsop - sugar apple

Sweetveld - African veld that is not markedly acid in soil reaction and is characterized by production in the presence of adequate mositure of palatable grazing of predominantly annual grasses

Sweetwood - a laurel (Laurus nobilis)

Sweetwort - an unfermented malt infusion

Unsweetened - not containing added sugar; not sweetened

If any of these words inspire your writing, do tag me or send me a link. I'd love to read your work!

More: Word Lists

[margocooper]

Жостер (лат. Rhámnus).Сентябрь 24. Buckthorn. September 24.

[heavenly-garden]

Hydrangea Paniculata Diamond Rouge

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Friday 3 January 2025

The last flowers of the season on Rosa ‘Bathsheba’ (climbing rose, shrub rose) bred by David Austin and released for sale in 2016. This cultivar forms a short, vigorous climber and the flowers have a myrrh fragrance, with hints of honey and tea.

Jill Raggett

[stopandlook]

Scientific Name: Ilex decidua Common Name(s): Possumhaw Family: Aquifoliaceae (holly) Life Cycle: Perennial Leaf Retention: Deciduous Habit: Tree, shrub USDA L48 Native Status: Native Location: Plano, Texas Season(s): Fall

[mutant-distraction]

Rob Little

Petrified Forest National Park is an American national park located in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the park covers about 346 square miles (900 km2), and includes semi-desert shrub-steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands. The park's headquarters is located about 26 miles (42 km) east of Holbrook along Interstate 40 (I-40), which parallels the South Transcon Line. The site, the northern portion of which extends into the Painted Desert, was declared a national monument in 1906 and a national park in 1962. The park has an average elevation of about 5,400 feet (1,600 m), and has a dry, windy climate with temperatures ranging from In the summer it is about 100°F (38°C) to winter lows well below freezing. The park has more than 400 species of plants, dominated by grasses such as punchweed, blue grama, and sacaton. Animals include larger animals such as pronghorn, coyotes, and lynx; many small animals, such as deer, mice, snakes, lizards and seven species of amphibians; And more than 200 species of birds, some of which are permanent residents and many of which are migratory. About one-third of the park is designated wilderness—50,260 acres (79 sq mi; 203 km2)—

The Petrified Forest is famous for its fossils, especially deciduous trees that lived in the Late Triassic, about 225 million years ago. The deposits containing the fossil trunks are part of the colorful and widespread Chinle Formation, from which the Painted Desert gets its name. Beginning about 60 million years ago, the Colorado Plateau, of which the park is a part, was pushed upward by tectonic forces and subjected to further erosion. All of the park's rock layers above the Chinle River, except for younger geological strata in parts of the park, have been removed by wind and water. In addition to fossilized tree trunks, fossils found in the park included Late Triassic ferns, cycads, ginkgos, and many other plants as well as animals including giant reptiles called phytosaurs, large amphibians, and early dinosaurs. Paleontologists have discovered and studied the park's fossils since the early 1900s.

[5-and-a-half-acres]

A perfect fall for showing off the beauty berry’s fruit. The leaves dropped before a hard frost came and the birds haven’t eaten the berries yet.