#for our abject misuse of the tagging feature

[botaniqueer]

I posted 254 times in 2021

89 posts created (35%)

165 posts reblogged (65%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 1.9 posts.

I added 283 tags in 2021

#plampts - 67 posts

#plants - 60 posts

#food plants - 31 posts

#plantblr - 30 posts

#flowers - 23 posts

#succulents - 16 posts

#indigenous - 16 posts

#solanum - 15 posts

#carnivorous plants - 14 posts

#pinguicula - 11 posts

Longest Tag: 126 characters

#unless we want to go the treacherous route of defining meat to include all opisthokonts causing mushrooms and yeast to be meat

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Someone has been very busy! (Pinguicula X sp.)

Feeding time seems to be when I water things because it disturbs the soil and causes them to take flight. :P

97 notes • Posted 2021-01-06 01:39:09 GMT

#4

I am permanently jealous of the local plant shop’s butterwort rock. Look at how cute and serene they all look!!

99 notes • Posted 2021-05-27 06:58:41 GMT

#3

I originally ordered Malabar spinach seeds (Basella alba var rubra, 49 days) because I wanted some edible greens but it turns out they’re very pretty and good as ornamentals as well! They look like Pileas and Peperomias except edible and not related to either!

Check out that vining action!

115 notes • Posted 2021-08-27 06:24:47 GMT

#2

Thinking a lot about how the concept of species is socially constructed.

We tend to conceptualize species as neat slots (which philosophically can be described as Ideals) in the ground that organisms gravitate towards, but in reality species are more like motes of dust sliding around on an infinite frictionless surface and always in motion.

What we see as a species we're just trying to take a statistical average of those piles of dust representing a population, but the genetic distribution of those individuals changes from year to year and what constitutes that species changes, since Ideals or baselines don't exist for any species.

What we know now as a sparrow isn't exactly the same as what people 20,000 years ago knew as one, but the change isn't easily noticeable because of how a species can change (at least the ones visible to the naked eye anyways) and if we were to resurrect a population from thousands of years ago, they'd most likely be different than modern ones. Life changes in a smooth continuum.

The continuation of life (and thus, evolution) is just a very very long ship of Theseus where living group of organisms' genetics slowly change in a slow game of telephone. What we see as a species and think of in terms of ideals is actually a continually changing process being run until that population has no more living descendents (extinction).

121 notes • Posted 2021-08-09 03:00:30 GMT

#1

Finally got these!! This is Solanum pyracanthum! A very punk rock-looking nightshade from Madagascar.

I didn’t expect the colors to be so bold in real life! I thought the photos were all enhanced or something.

I got two of them with the idea of getting seeds in case they’re not self compatible, with the intention to help make these more available, since they’re still a little difficult to get.

One of the common names is Porcupine tomato, though they’re entirely toxic so these shouldn’t be eaten unlike actual tomatoes.

178 notes • Posted 2021-09-16 02:53:45 GMT

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