#medicinal trees

[environmentalharmony]

Plant Study: Wild Rose

Wild Rose plant study

Wild Rose, Rosa Species I decided the wild rose was a good plant study pick for February, but I promptly forgot to post my findings here. You can usually find content more quickly on the Environmental Harmony Instagram. Anywhoo! Wild Roses, it turns out, are the BEST. The wild rose is the fragrant, shrubby ancestor of all the roses we know and love. The wild roses are the most fragrant and, I…

[kagooleo]

johto’s champion and chronicler for the deity of the ilex shrine, it’s lyra!🌿

this one took me a while due to trying out different techniques (studying a Lot of art nouveau) and making a couple changes to her outfit (the details help), but I’d like to think she’s learned a lot in her journey and wanted to reflect her experience more in her champion fit

her specialty would be in fairy types and her meganium’s divergent evolution is grass/fairy 🧚🪷

and a bonus w/ the johto gang after the photoshoot!

[boughclan-clangen]

moon 0, page 4

>the doctor is in.

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[thechthonicherbalist]

Mushroom Microcosms ~ Vol 1. 🌌 Laccaria Amethystina 🌌

The beautiful Laccaria Amethystina with it's mystic hues is commonly known as the "Amethyst Deceiver" Mushroom. 🔮✨

With this tiny beauty only being the height of a thumb, I had to get on my hands and knees to capture pictures of it at those angles, but I dare say it was absolutely worth it. Although many people shun it due to high arsenic levels, it is known as a delicious edible mushroom here in Europe. (Wikipedia!) I prefer it as a subject to my camera lens, rather than in my witches' stew though and I wouldn't personally know them to be safe for consumption. 😂

In folk medicine and spiritual practice the essence of Laccaria Amethystina is believed to have a number of effects on mind and body here. It is thought to release blockades of both mental and physical nature and to accelerate the transformation of processes be it illness, menopause, stagnant emotions or problems, with the result of freeing the user from it. Whether or not this works and is safely practicable is beyond my judgement. I can only speak a word of warning of not consuming any mushrooms you don't know and to consult a local expert if you want more information on their edibility. I found these in a small forest part of a parking space off the highway in my homeland in Middle-Europe, on one of my trips to a hospital appointment in late August/early September this year. I haven't been in the right mind or had the energy to share these since. Originally I had saved them to share on a special occasion. But they do look like they come straight out of wonderland, especially if you take pictures from below, where you can see the sun shine through the delicate lamella. Seing the purple hues turn to shades of pink, red and even orange definitely put me in awe!

I hope looking at these brings you as much joy as they did to me! More magical mushroom photos are to come soon!

[lacaffeina]

34/100 days of productivity | 18/11/2023

i’m being productive but it’s still a bit too easy to lose focus. on another hand, i’m trying not to just give up on the whole ordeal of studying, so i am actually getting things done! outside of preparing for exams, i’m almost done re-reading 40 rules of love.

[an-albino-pinetree]

He’s kidding.

[solarpunkani]

Little kiddo tradition where every time you lose a baby tooth you bury the tooth and plant a seed

Does this mean anything

[olivedart-o-sandclan]

I drew Jayfeather at the library! I attempted to make a realistic drawing but eh

[roadtrippinlilly]

Source Me laf@ilyF ❤️

[the--chaos]

"In the soft, shadowed light of autumn, the world is less a place and more a feeling — something ancient and haunted that slips between the cracks of time."

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Juniper can relieve swelling and inflammation inside and out.

PHOTOGRAPH BY KEITH LADZINSKI, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION

[environmentalharmony]

Plant Study: Honey Locust

Honey Locust, Gleditsia triacanthos. Hailing from the Fabaceae family, the peas, Honey Locust is a medium-large deciduous tree native to central North America. It can become very invasive outside its native area and is banned in some areas, so do your research before you plant this beautiful, edible, medicinal tree. Honey Locust is an aggressive, fast-growing, short-lived tree that establishes…

[kodapear]

Finally finished the beginning of the story Ridge family trees. The white "?" mean their fam are either confirmed or assumed dead. Or, in Oddsight's case, were never known in the first place.

Now to follow through and do the rest

[thaliasthunder]

no bc a live action of the song of achilles would actually be the absolutely ruin of me

[chillypepperhot]

Source Me laf@ilyF ❤️

[balkanradfem]

Finding Ginko

So, a while ago I was researching what trees are planted in the parks, in the city I live in, so I would recognize them more easily; I found out they were planted 200 years ago, and it's mostly wild chestnuts, lindens, and maple-leaf sycamores. I also found out that somewhere in the city parks, there is one Ginko tree. This immediately thrilled me, because I knew about the Ginko tree from anime, there was a few episodes of Detective Conan specifically about this tree. So I knew it was originally asian, I knew it had beautiful, fan-shaped leaves, and I was a weeb deeply in my heart still, so I decied that one day, I would find this Ginko, and enjoy the japanese anime tree (the tree originated in China).

Yesterday, I watched a video on medicinal properties of Ginko, and I found out that the leaves have healing properties for brain, memory, and ears. These are the 3 things I consistently have problems with, so I generated a plan; I would find the Ginko, get the leaves, make infusion, drink it every day, get my head fixed. I continued watching the video, and it was revealed that not only it had these healing properties, but also female trees could grow nuts that originally would smell very bad (they referenced dog poop smell) but if you cleaned them properly, and dried them, you could roast them and they'd be delicious, addictive even. So now my brain has generated a new plan: Find Ginko, wait until the seeds fall, propagate it, grow my own, have it growing in my food forest, have the medicinal properties + delicious nut forever. I am going to get my hands on that tree.

So I went out the same day, on my bike, to scout the parks for the elusive Ginko tree! It took me 5 minutes to spot it. It wasn't where the article suggested it would be, but in the random walkway, and it was a majestic, beautiful tree. However, the people responsible for prunining the park's trees, have messed it all up for me. All the lower branches were pruned so heavily, that the lowest branch was still several meters out of my reach. I couldn't get a single leaf. I couldn't climb on the nearby fence as it was spiked. The city was not gonna let me get my ginko leaves.

I despaired for a second, then figured, maybe there's a second ginko tree. This one did not look 200 years old, it looked younger. And the article suggested it was in a place by the river, where trees were at first planted in a botanical garden, and at first every tree had a plaque; I knew where this place was. I said bye to the tall, unreachable ginko, and went on my merry way to seek another.

This time it took me longer. I checked every tree I couldn't immediately recognize up close. In my journey, I inspected one inconspicious tree that was growing next to a restaurant, that I never before paid attention to, and discovered it was a mulberry! Absolutely delighted, I started picking fruit and putting it directly in my mouth; it was delicious. Insane that I didn't know about this fruit tree! A group of girls saw me eating from the tree, and they also went to inspect it; they were delighted, and commented on how long it has been the last time they tried a mulberry. Mulberries are an ancient slavic fruit, my great-grandmother had one in her backyard and I used to climb it and eat from it all day. But a lot of them got cut down because it doesn't have commercial purposes, it doesn't store well, you have to eat it as soon as you grab it from the tree.

Happy with my discovery, I would go on, and not spot any tree with ginko leaves, but I found this plaque!

This is the original ginko tree, the one planted 200 years ago. It was so tall and unnacessible, I couldn't even see the shape of leaves up there, the branches were pruned to 7 meters up. It was almost funny how badly my plan was going; I found two ginko trees, and a mulberry, and yet I had nothing to bring home with me. But then I thought, wait, this ginko was here for 200 years, it could have managed to plant itself somewhere, and it's such a valuable and exotic tree, I'm sure they would allow another one to grow. So I sniffed around and searched the area, and finally. I found another, very young ginko tree. So young they couldn't trim the branches 7 meters up, as it was only 5 meters tall. And I was able to get some leaves!

(That is the tall, unreachable ginko tree in the first picture)

Pleased with myself, I went home and made tea. The tea is almost completely transparent, with only a slight yellow tint, and it tastes very mildly sweet; the only thing I could compare it to is the pleasant taste of tree bark. But I like it, I can drink this every day now I know where to find it. Isn't it cool someone planted this tree 200 years ago and I read about it, found it, and was able to make tea from it? Thank you people who planted the Ginko!