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White clover (Trifolium repens)
Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis)
Chinese trumpet vine (Campsis grandiflora)
Mexican morning glory (Ipomoea tricolor)
Blueberry (Vaccinium caesariense)





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#plants#botany#identifying plants in posts#nature#science#flowers#art#botanical#plant#illustration#clover#White clover#Trifolium repens#Lily of the valley#convallaria majalis#Chinese trumpet vine#Campsis grandiflora#Mexican morning glory#morning glory#ipomoea#blueberry#Vaccinium caesariense
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Okay but for real, please download Merlin, the Cornell-based bird-logging app. It is so great. It will tell you about birds in your area. It will make you so insufferable on hikes and outings. It doesn't have any comments section so if this site gets nuked do NOT try to find me there but know that that's where I'm hanging. Having a great time birdwatching. Logging the bluejay that bullies my cats. Helping researchers track where birds are for climate change-related population monitoring. 10/10, highly recommend getting a life and doing some silly birdwatching.
#I forget who here recced me the bird app cuz it's PHENOMENAL so I'm sorry I am blanking#also if anyone has recs for apps for tracking flora pls lemme know cuz I am on the hunt#if you have had a good experience with inaturalist I wanna hear about it cuz it felt too social media-y for me#is it good? I do not know. I actually really want to cuz I need to be able to better identify plants.#it would be so funny if I just didn't open my inbox and instead made a post about birdwatching for every ask I get this weekend lmfao#I really think it's what the dash deserves#I'll tell you about arizona birds! it'll be great#I also have seen some GREAT juniper trees and stars today. yes STARS.#literally if you haven't done it lately go find somewhere dark and see the stars. v important.#anyway junipers are making berries rn! they're delightful!
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So funny how, as long as you cook it, it's way less risky to eat the meat of an animal you don't know than any part of any plant you either don't know, think you sort of know, or confidently think you know when there is another one that really looks like it, but the thing is you've never looked at them that closely and rely on vibes but that's a mistake you can usually only make once, so now you're dead.
#Bloom talks#this post is brought to you by the Apiaceae family#everybody say hi Apiaceae! aka the “full of yummy yummy plants but also very very deadly plants and they kinda look the same” family#of course that applies from laymen if you have grown up with plants you're extremely familiar with then you're good#same if you've been taught how to identify some common ones#but SOME plants are better left alone if you're not 300% sure and checked four times before putting it anywhere near your mouth#that said. I would love to know what belladone fruits taste like. it's forbidden knowledge. it's a siren call I must resist
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person involved and interested in botany/ecology/etc (me) surprised at finding botanists/ecologists/etc in the plant app. more news at 11
#z xarre#idek why i keep updating yall. but i found one of my teachers on there#too bad im on there on the dl like i rly dont wanna be identified. but i also wouldnt mind ppl irl (like my teacher. some classmates)#knowing my inat account yknow. so idk if i should (again) change my username on there. bc it can be associated w my aragonese twitter acc#bc it has the same profile pic (yall wouldnt understand. i have a pomegranate flower bc the name is. yknow...)#and again. i rly rly rly rly like that name. and also i dont wanna relate the places i visit with MY OWN PERSONAL NAME#posted on the internet FOR EVERYONE TO SEE??? like im already pretty anonymous and i put my location as obscured bc its WEIRD to disclose#the coordinates down to the decimal of where you found a plant imo. i am giving the overall location thank you very much
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a song that i associate with my muse meme!
AHH, hey, ramone!! thank you for sending in this prompt :D since you sent in three of the mic's, i shall now be treating you to three songs that make me think of blamore when i hear them / that i associate with it. an explanation of why i chose them will be in the tags <3
hozier - who we are.
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icehouse - crazy.
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depeche mode - personal jesus.
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#IT WAS PROBABLY NOTHING BUT IT FELT LIKE THE WORLD: musings.#asks - answered.#ooc post.#okay but ESPECIALLY heavy on the last one because it literally all about the idea of someone that people can turn to in hard times-#like a god or a prophet who will listen to your plights and help you + who you should believe in. and i say this because one major theme-#to blamore's character is the concept of being a false prophet and someone who essentially unfortunately takes advantage of people's-#longing for things to get better in gotham. bc i feel like a lot of people there have either been failed by the system by other's or-#possibly both and this is so that blamore can get people to voluntarily want to consume the 'seeds' it distributes in order to uhh...#well purge gotham of its undesirables basically as terrible as that sounds. but yeah that depeche mode song? it's such a good one for-#him and definitely has helped me before to write things related to him since blamore does sometimes believe in its own hubris.#but as for the second one by icehouse that one i associate with it because although it doesn't exactly consider itself to fully identify-#with the label of being a 'man' i feel as if blamore will still talk about itself that way sometimes. its relationship with its gender-#is honestly a little bit complicated NGL because him using it/its pronouns as well is something blamore adopted recently even-#though he'd always sort of felt like disconnected and/or like it didn't really align with how he saw himself completely. BUT yeahhh#i honestly could start a whole discussion about that but i shall do that another time perhaps ahah. anyhow though besides that-#elephant in the room ever since it has transformed into this half-human half-plant monster being... although it does love any partners-#it has very much (trust me) i feel like it does wonder why they chose to be with him more often than he'd like to admit.#so that's where the whole 'crazy' part comes in and as for the hozier song that song is about how you kind of have to carve through-#this 'darkness' to rediscover ourselves and who we want to be as a result of going through a rough time or just something tough in-#general and that is SO freaking fitting in my opinion for blamore because it definitely had to completely reframe the way it thought-#about itself when it transformed. and he also had to figure out what he believed in / what his values were now which can be suchhh-#a messy process TBH but this isn't the first time that blamore's had to rediscover itself as life is honestly kind of this ongoing-#process of losing yourself and trying to find yourself again you know? but yeah. i hope you enjoyed my explanation here tehe <3#and also that you enjoy the tunes!!
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Sometimes I think the hardest part of writing is knowing what normal people DON'T know.
#this post brought to you by me trying to write an environmental scientist character and wondering if anyone would think it's strange for#them to pick up a weed and go oh i know what species this is#which is a thing i can do. can most people do that?#i feel like most people know a few of their region's most common plants but anything beyond that is a bit much#like i've always known dandelions and stuff but i learned ragweed and poison ivy pretty recently#i learned ragweed less than 2 weeks ago actually#it doesn't help that i spend too much time with other environemntal people who can also identify plants and birds and rocks and shit#so i start to think it's normal#i can only identify a few rocks a few plants and the majority of songbirds but almost no birds of prey#i don't think knowing most local songbirds is normal but i grew up with that one#hylian rambles#writer problems
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begging people to understand that labels and categories are not inherently meaningful without context. and that whether or not any label is actually useful changes from context to context (including from person to person). and that trying to pin something or someone down as BEING a particular label (rather than something being labelled as a certain thing) is meaningless and unhelpful
#leologisms#this isnt actually About anything in particular but it was of course inspired by gender posts#saying that someone else IS a particular thing because of their experiences is not really helpful. and it doesnt make sense#theres a reason theyre gender 'identities'. theyre labels. theyre something that people either do or dont identify with#theyre tools for finding people with similar experiences. or for exploring and understanding ones own experiences. etc.#trying to say that someone IS agender for not identifying strongly with a particular gender or someone IS trans for wanting to#experiment with gender + presentation or someone IS bisexual because they dated someone of the same gender one time or whatever#isnt actually helpful. do they identify as these things? do they even actually care?#of course the reasons for someones answers to these questions are also important. but thats for them to figure out.#[note. 'someone' also includes you]#there was also an anecdote i was thinking about. from when i was a kid#and i was bugging my mom over dinner about 'what exactly is a vegetable'#'any edible plant part thats not a fruit' didnt include tomatoes or eggplants etc. and that definition didnt satisfy me#well i just kept going until my mom got sick of the question#of course i now know about culinary vegetables. but being a 'vegetable' isnt inherent to anything#and neither is being 'green' or being 'gay' or 'trans' or 'agender'#of course these are useful labels. thats why they exist and thats why people use them#but trying to pin down whether something definitively IS one thing or another is a fruitless exercise
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Asclepias syriaca

FIDELIA BRIDGES
Milkweeds (1876)
#plants#botany#identifying plants in posts#nature#science#flowers#art#botanical#plant#illustration#milkweed#monarch#asclepias syriaca
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just wanted to show everyone here this funky guy
#vicarious#posted this to my twt but i think yall need to see it too#look closely. he lokks like a little guy grooving#also what kind of plant is this. it was growing in the driveway. if someone identifies it that would be cool
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pro tip: if you learn to recognise flies as wildlife and start noticing the different species, you get to experience a fun little thing where it vastly increases how much you get to be like "ooh look! nature! yay!!!"
#personal#thoughts#🍬 post#we don't have our windows open because allergies but lots of insects seem to land on the outside of our window#(I think they're trying to get to our plants? I'm not sure)#and this includes a lot of flies so I've started paying attention to the different kinds that show up#I haven't been identifying them but it is cool seeing just how many different species there are#it's like when we started paying attention to moss and lichen as a teenager#and it was like it opened up a whole world of cool stuff that's right there as long as you know to look for it#you know that post that's like ''you're not alone. there are bugs''? yeah
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This is Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) from the dogbane family. It's native to Madagascar, but lives all over the world in hot, dry places. It produces anti-cancer compounds that are now used in chemotherapy.



13.12.2023 | Beautiful flowers in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. We will come back!
#identifying plants in posts#nature#flowers#botanical#plant#illustration#plants#botany#science#cancer#chemotherapy#madagascar
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this weird guy was growing from the grafting stock of my Thai lime! note the aesthetic thorns. I’m going to propagate it and grow my own bitter, fuzzy, tiny oranges, or at least sell it as a rare cutting.
#I’m going to start posting these ID cards on my blog when I use this plant identifier app now#plants#gardening#lifeblogging
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During the 2008 recession, my aunt lost her job. Her, her partner, and my three cousins moved across the country to stay with us while they got back on their feet. My house turned from a family of four to a family of nine overnight, complete with three dogs and five cats between us.
It took a few years for them to get a place of their own, but after a few rentals and apartments, they now own a split level ranch in a town nearby. I’ve lost track of how many coworkers and friends have stayed with them when they were in a tight spot. A mother and son getting out of an abusive relationship, a divorcee trying to stay local for his kids while they work out a custody agreement, you name it. My aunt and uncle knew first hand what that kindness meant, and always find space for someone who needed it, the way my parents had for them.
That same aunt and uncle visited me in [redacted] city last year. They are prolific drinkers, so we spent most of the day bar hopping. As we wandered the city, any time we passed a homeless person, my uncle would pull out a fresh cigarette and ask them if they had a light. Regardless of if they had a lighter on hand or not, he offered them a few bucks in exchange, which he explained to me after was because he felt it would be easier for them to accept in exchange for a service, no matter how small.
I work for a company that produces a lot of fabric waste. Every few weeks, I bring two big black trash bags full of discarded material over to a woman who works down the hall. She distributes them to local churches, quilting clubs, and teachers who can use them for crafts. She’s currently in the process of working with our building to set up a recycling program for the smaller pieces of fabric that are harder to find use for.
One of my best friends gives monthly donations to four or five local organizations. She’s fortunate enough to have a tech job that gives her a good salary, and she knows that a recurring donation is more valuable to a non-profit because they can rely on that money month after month, and can plan ways to stretch that dollar for maximum impact. One of those organizations is a native plant trust, and once she’s out of her apartment complex and in a home with a yard, she has plans to convert it into a haven of local flora.
My partner works for a company that is working to help regulate crypto and hold the current bad actors in the space accountable for their actions. We unfortunately live in a time where technology develops far too fast for bureaucracy to keep up with, but just because people use a technology for ill gain doesn’t mean the technology itself is bad. The blockchain is something that she finds fascinating and powerful, and she is using her degree and her expertise to turn it into a tool for good.
I knew someone who always had a bag of treats in their purse, on the odd chance they came across a stray cat or dog, they had something to offer them.
I follow artists who post about every local election they know of, because they know their platform gives them more reach than the average person, and that they can leverage that platform to encourage people to vote in elections that get less attention, but in many ways have more impact on the direction our country is going to go.
All of this to say, there’s more than one way to do good in the world. Social media leads us to believe that the loudest, the most vocal, the most prolific poster is the most virtuous, but they are only a piece of the puzzle. (And if virtue for virtues sake is your end goal, you’ve already lost, but that’s a different post). Community is built of people leveraging their privileges to help those without them. We need people doing all of those things and more, because no individual can or should do all of it. You would be stretched too thin, your efforts valiant, but less effective in your ambition.
None of this is to encourage inaction. Identify your unique strengths, skills, and privileges, and put them to use. Determine what causes are important to you, and commit to doing what you can to help them. Collective action is how change is made, but don’t forget that we need diversity in actions taken.
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Who knew that studying biology would open doors for such fun things?
There'll be a worldwide event from the 26 to 29 of this month on the iNaturalist app, where you have to try and take the most photos of nature to post there
Can't wait to participate >:3
#i think anyone can participate really#so yall can too if you want#you don't need to be a naturalist to take photos of animals and plants to post there#just to identify other people's stuff (i think)#anyway#it'll be cool :3#🥨🪶
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Papaver somniferum


Convallaria keiskei


Plumeria sp.


Oxalis sp. ?



just a lil Fearne 🌿
#botany#cottage core#identifying plants in posts#plants#science#art#critical role#fearne#fearne calloway#critrole#fan art
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I would never cheat on my bf with another person in a million years but if I could make out with the missouri department of conservation’s online field guide it would get so sloppy
#Missouri department of conservation#field guides#nature#I LOVE having information at my fingertips#I LOVE being able to sort plants by edible or poisonous or flower type#I LOVE having a guide for which plants are invasive#I LOVE seeing which animals are venemous#I LOVE staring at birds and then looking them up to double check what I saw#side note my new binoculars got delivered today and I’m super excited#bc my long distance eyesight is#not the best#and that makes identifying birds harder#and we have so many out at the farm#anyway#funny posting#if you wanna learn more about nature around you I Highly recommend looking into the website for your state’s conservation department#I can’t guarantee they’re all great but if nothing else they are a wonderful jumping off point
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