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Closely connected to the act of name signing was the act of writing poems on walls. As scholars have already pointed out, with beginnings traceable to the Six Dynasties, wall poems (tibishi) were already very widespread during the Tang. By Christopher Nugent's count, well over one thousand entries in the Complete Tang Poems had titles indicating that they began as inscriptions on some surface other than paper or scrolls. These surfaces included walls at places of gathering and transit, such as post stations, scenic sites, inns, and increasingly in the latter part of the Tang, Buddhist temples, which also served public roles for lay gatherings and performances. (100)
In one anecdote, a latecomer casts aspersions on a first writer's literary skills, comparing him to the general Xiang Yu (232-202 BCE), who was infamous for having learned just enough writing to manage his name: "Li Tang signed his name on a pavilion in Zhaoying County. When Wei Zhan [jinshi degree 865] saw it, he took a brush and dashed off a taunt: 'The rivers of Wei and Qin brighten the eyes, / but why is Xiren short on poetic spirit? / Perhaps he mastered only what Beauty Yu's husband could / learning to write just enough to put down his name.' " ... It would not be a stretch to imagine the sniggering of those who read this inscription in a frequented pavilion. (102)
For a degree seeker in Chang'an, these circuits of information and judgment received more discussion than the actual examination itself. Tang literati wrote copiously about activities such as name signing, public exposure, and triumph. It would not be an exaggeration to say that in ninth-century temples and popular recreation areas, the vertical spaces were teeming with verses that clamored for attention. (104)
selections on poetic graffiti from linda rui feng's city of marvel and transformation: chang'an and narratives of experience in tang dynasty china (university of hawaii press, 2015)
#china#tang dynasty#tagamemnon#<- couldn't stop thinking about graffiti from pompeii while reading this chapter so i suspect it may be of interest to rome-heads in genera#this was very promising book that felt like it failed to fully deliver - can't tell if the author was trying not to get into aspects which-#-have a paucity of surviving sources or if perhaps she was trying to avoid stepping on the toes of existing scholarship#e.g. nugent's mentioned book on poetry production/circulation or juduth zeitlin's article on wall poems and anxieties of loss#but even though i felt like it needed another 50-100 pages of fleshing out there are some generally remarkable moments in here#bits that can be put in remarkable parallel with imperial rome certainly; more fascinatingly with 19th- and early 20th-century fiction-#-that deals closely with 'new' modern urban life. where the forms & patterns of the city itself collude with residents against the newcomer#some interesting notes on bai juyi in here too. though i don't know if they're news to any real bai juyi stans out there
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New vanessa morgan news!!
#vanessa morgan#wild cards#news#websites#spoilers 4 the artical/series: ITS A FREAKING COP SHOW? FOR REAL? kinda sad since thats my least favorite genera of all time... but shes#going to be like a con man so maybe that will be cool 2 see?
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my toxic trait is i dont know many common plant names. im not trying to be pretentious i just actually dont know what youre talking about.
#i love the clarity and the order of scientific names#once you get into the way of taxonomy taxonomic ranks get a handle on genera and families it actually becomes a lot easier#i do love common names im just bad at remembering them#i also love scientific names because so often it's like 'that's a [genus name]? no way!'#or alternatively you see a plant thats new to you and youre like idk the species but i think it's this family or this genus
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istg i cannot believe there's gonna be a moana live action remake, there hasn't even been 7 years, next year we are gonna have encanto aaaaaaaaa
#i could make a point of disney disrespecting animation and seeing it as a genera again and how hypocritical that is because disney#would absolutely NOT be where it is now without animation#and how this is just a joke for the cultures they are 'representing' because instead of letting them tell new stories about themselves#they just remake what will make them money#but you gamers already know the gist#im just so tired#gh0ost txt
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General Upendra takes charge as new Army Chief
General Upendra takes charge as new Army Chief #India #army #IndianArmy #merisarkar #mygov @merisarkar
General Upendra Dwivedi takes charge: The new Chief of the Army Staff, Gen Upendra Dwivedi, has operational experience along the frontiers with China and Pakistan. He has also served as Vice Chief of the Army and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Northern Command. General Dwivedi, who has vast operational experience along the frontiers with China and Pakistan, was serving as the Vice Chief…
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#Defence Budget#Defence Ministry#Defence News#Genera Upendra Dwivedi#India#Indian Army Chief#Meri Sarkar#merisarkar#My Gov#New Chief of Army Staff
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Indian Army's new Chief of Staff takes charge
Indian Army's new Chief of Staff takes charge #India #defence #defense #defencenews #IndianArmy #ArmyChief #GeneralUpendraDwivedi
General Upendra Dwivedi takes charge: The new Chief of the Army Staff, Gen Upendra Dwivedi, has operational experience along the frontiers with China and Pakistan. He has also served as Vice Chief of the Army and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Northern Command. General Dwivedi, who has vast operational experience along the frontiers with China and Pakistan, was serving as the Vice Chief…
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#Defence Budget#Defence Ministry#Defence News#Genera Upendra Dwivedi#India#Indian Army Chief#New Chief of Army Staff
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Confirmada la denuncia que hizo Luis Raúl Torres Cruz a mediados del año pasado.
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Los generadores para producir energía eléctrica alquilados por FEMA a la Empresa Weston Solution son propiedad de New Fortress Energy, la compañía dueña de Genera PR.
Esos generadores que se alquilaron supuestamente como una alternativa temporal para ayudar a producir 350 megavatios de energía, en lo que Genera PR reparaba algunas plantas generadoras de electricidad de la AEE, ahora serán compradas para dejarlas de forma permanente.
El alquiler de esos generadores y ahora la compra de los mismos, se hizo bajo el manto de una supuesta emergencia del sistema sistema eléctrico y era para un uso temporero de 6 meses. El alquiler y la compra se hicieron sin subasta competitiva y se adquirieron los generadores de New Fortress, que también es la compañía que le vende el gas natural y el diesel para la operación de los generadores.
Claramente se ve el montaje de la Administración de las Alianzas Público Privadas, de COR3 y de la AEE y permitido por FEMA, e impulsado por el Gobernador Pedro Pierluisi para favorecer a New Fortress Energy con otro contrato millonario a través del uso de los fondos federales para emergencias.
New Fortress pretende perpetuar y mantener el uso de gas natural en la producción de energía eléctrica, ya que es la empresa que suple el gas natural a las plantas de generación de la AEE con un contrato anual de $2,500 millones. Las plantas de generación de la AEE ahora las administra la compañía Genera PR que es propiedad de New Fortress.
¡NEGOCIO REDONDO!
#Luis Raúl Torres Cruz#puerto rico#despierta puerto rico#corrupción#corrupción en puerto rico#esto es puerto rico#despierta boricua#puertorriqueños#noticias importantes sobre puerto rico#noticias de puerto rico#la corrupción en puerto rico#pedro pierluisi#gobierno de puerto rico#politicos corruptos#corrupt politicians#el partido mas corrupto en puerto rico#noticias de pr#fema#Genera PR#New Fortress Energy
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Il ddl sugli affitti brevi ad uso turistico che genera tensioni
La nuova proposta dell'esecutivo Meloni vuole regolare il mercato extra alberghiero
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Blanc's Frog (Anomaloglossus blanci), male with froglets, family Aromobatidae, endemic to high elevations in French Guiana
ENDANGERED.
This genus was originally in the poison frog family Dendrobatidae, but has now been placed in new family, along with a few other genera.
This tiny frog is only about 1.8 cm in length.
The fathers carry the tadpoles on his back, and even transports them around briefly as froglets.
photograph by Vincent Prémel
#anomaloglossus#aromobatidae#cryptic forest frog#frog#amphibian#herpetology#south america#animals#nature
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HEY LOOK I BLINKED AND IT'S ANOTHER WEEKEND ALREADY time is an illusion which hates me
Y'all i love u not ignoring u, just having a busy weekend, but i am kissing on the mouth everyone who sent me an ask lately 🥺
#i just want y'all to know i love you dearly and i will try to answer all asks soon#alas i thought i'll have the mental capacity for it days ago but here we are#tho i am slowly getting out of the whatever weird mood i was in for the past two fucking months#thank you everyone for asks messages and the genera love you're throwing my way#i wasn't really on hiatus cause i was mindlessly reblogging stuff but i Wasn't Truly Here ya know#and i feel I've missed so much from y'all's lives :c#i feel i've missed so much new art#and i have A LOT of things added to my drafts instead of cleared bc i just keep adding stuff there#and having no brain to properly admire it/read it with comprehension#hey did you know burnout makes you reluctant to answer messages from friends!! i did not now i do#i have weird issues now with my brain everyone (like i even need to do a mri scan)#it's nothing serious but i feel funny idk#so yeah. i have a draft with semi-hiatus thing but i haven't touched that post in 3 weeks so rambling in tags it is i guess#also i'm sorry my beloved anon your ask is halfway answered for like. 5 weeks maybe. if not more bc i dontknow how time works#ALSO HELLO HI NEW FOLLOWERS I HOPE I WILL PROVIDE MORE COOL STUFF SOON and by cool stuff i mean i will reblog more cool stuff not make it#but hey it's spring i hope it gives me energy for cool stuff again i have PLANS#alright i've lost the plot i love you all please don't overwork yourselves and keep in touch with people who love you and go out to get some#sweet vitamin D#it works miracles
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There’s nothing hotter than commitment to the bit
#this is specifically about the comic sans meets times new Roman but from make some noise#but it also works as a genera statement
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Wet Beast Wednesday: moray eels
This week on Wet Beast Wednesday I'll be going over something amazing, a fish with a sense of morality. You see, the moral eel is known for, what... I think I'm reading this wrong. Oh, MoRAY eel, not moral. Well this is awkward. Hang tight, I need to go redo my research.
(Image: a green moray (Gymnothorax funebris) swimming outside of its burry, with its whole body visible from the side. It is a long, slender fish that looks a bit like a snake. A long fin starts just below the head and continues down the length of the body. The body is arranged in a wave pattern. It has a pointed snout and small eyes. Its body is a yellow-green color. In the background is the sandy seafloor, dotted with various sponges and corals. End ID)
Moray eels are true eels, meaning they are in the order Anguiliformes. Yeah, I did wolf eels, electric eels, and lamprey eels before I got around to actual eels. There are over 200 known species of moray eel in 15 genera. Like other eels, they are elongated bony fish with extra vertebrae and reduced fins. Moray eels have fewer fins than most eel species, only having a dorsal, anal and tail fin that merge together and run down the back of most of the body and underneath portion of it. They achieve motion by undulating this long fin and sometimes undulating the rest of the body as well. Moray eels aren't the fastest of fish, but they can swim backwards, something almost no fish can. The head has a long snout with wide jaws. Most species have long fangs used to grab onto prey, but a few species are adapted to eat hard-shelled prey and have molar-like teeth to crush through shells instead. Probably the coolest feature of morays are the pharyngeal jaws. This is a second set of jaws located in the back of the mouth. When the eel bites onto prey, the jaws can be shot forward to grab the food and help pull it into the throat. While lots of fish have pharyngeal jaws, morays are the only ones who can extend their pharyngeal jaws forward and use them to grab prey. Morays have smooth, scaleless skin that is often patterned to provide camouflage. The skin is coated in mucus that provides protection from damage and infection. In some species, the mucus can be used to glue sand together to help reinforce burrows. Morays lack lateral lines, a system of organs found in most fish that senses changes in water movement. Their sense of smell is their primary sense. The size of morays varies between species. The smallest species is the dwarf moray eel (Gymnothorax melatremus) which reaches 26 cm (10 in) long. The largest species by mass is the giant moray eel (Gymnothorax javanicus) which can reach 3 meters (10 ft) and 30 kg (66 lbs) while the longest species is the slender giant moray (Strophidon sathete), the longest known specimen of which measured in at 3.94 m (12.9 ft).
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(Image: a giant moray (Gymnothorax javanicus) emerging from a burrow. It is brown and mottled with yellowish patches. Its head is pointed at the camera and it's mouth is wide open, aming it look shocked. End ID)
(Image: an anatomical diagram of the skeleton of a moray eel emphasizing the pharyngeal jaws and the muscle attachments. End ID. Art by Zina Deretsky)
Moray eels are found throughout the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. Different species are found in different temperatures and depths, though most species live in relatively shallow, warm water. Several species can live in brackish water and a few will swim upriver and live for a time in fresh water, though there do not appear to be any species that live their entire lives in fresh water. Morays are ambush predators who rely on the element of surprise. They live in small, tight places such as holes in coral, gaps between rocks, or sandy burrows. When prey passes, the eel can lunge out and grab it. Unlike most fish, the eel cannot use suction feeding due to the shapes of their mouths. They have to rely on lunging froward and catching prey with their mouths. Their mouths are adapted in shape to push water to the sides. This reduces water resistance and avoids creating a wave that could push prey away from the eel. If an eel catches prey that cannot be swallowed whole, it will tie itself in a knot while biting on to the food. By pulling its head through the loop, the eel can rip the food into bite-sized pieces. Spending most of their times in burrows also provides protection from predators, especially in juveniles or smaller species. At night, the eels will come out of their burrows to hunt sleeping prey while the larger predators are asleep. Giant morays have also been seen engaging in interspecies cooperative hunting with roving coral groupers (Plectropomus pessuliferus). The eels can fit into small crevices the groupers can't to flush prey into the grouper's path while catching their own. Morays are mostly solitary species and many can be territorial. They are known to be shy and will retreat into their burrows if they feel threatened. They are also curious and many species are quite intelligent.
(Image: a male ribbon eel (Rhinomuraena quaesita) on a coral reef. It is a very long and slender eel with its body curved in many waves. It is brightly colored, with a blue-purple body, yellow fin and face, and a long black and white stripe running down the back half of the body. On the nostrils are two feather-like structures. End ID)
Morays reproductive strategies are poorly known and differ based on species. While many species seem to have no set mating season and will reproduce whenever they can, others will mate at the same time every year. Some species seem to have dedicated spots to lay their eggs and a few are believed to be anadromous, meaning they travel from the sea to fresh water to spawn. Meanwhile, some of the species that spend a lot of time in fresh water are catadromous, meaning they return to sea to mate. Females will lay their eggs and the male fertilize them. After this, they depart, providing no parental care. As with all true eels, moray eels begin life as leptocephalus larvae. This type of fish larvae is notable for its resemblance to a simple, transparent leaf with a head on one end. These larvae are unique and poorly understood, despite being the larval stage of a lot of different species of fish. They are unusually well developed for larvae, capable of active swimming and generally living life. In fact, some particularly large leptocephalus larvae were initially mistaken for adult fish. They feed mostly on bits of drifting organic material called marine snow and can remain in the larval stage for up to 3 years, with those in colder conditions usually taking longer to metamorphose. All leptocephalus larvae start out with no sex organs, then develop female organs, then develop male ones, becoming simultaneous hermaphrodites. They will ultimately become eith male or female and it is likely that environmental factors are the main determining factor. During metamorphosis into a juvenile, the leptocephalus can reduce in size by up to 90%, resulting in the juvenile being smaller than the larva. The process of maturation is poorly understood, but it seems that most morays will be sexually mature by three years of age.
(Image: multiple photos of a particularly large leptocephalus larva (not sure what species). It is a translucent organis, wth a body shaped like a very long leaf, narrow at both ends. In the frint is a very tiny head. End ID)
Morays are shy and generally avoid humans. Though some cultures have hunted them for food, they are often not considered a particularly good food source. Many species have high levels of chemicals called ciguatoxins in their bodies, which can lead to a condition called ciguatera fish poisoning if eaten. The largest threat to morays is habitat loss. This is especially true for the many species that live in coral reefs, which are in increasing danger due to global warming. Attacks on humans are rare and usually happen as a response to a human sticking their hand in the eel's burrow. Some of the large species could cause significant damage with a bite. Some species, usually the smaller ones, are found in the aquarium trade, thought they are not good pets for beginners as even the smallest morays are still large for aquarium fish and have some specific requirements. The curiosity many morays have has led to some becoming familiar with and even friendly to humans, often the result of feeding them. They can recognize individual humans and remember them over the course of years. Aquarium employees sometimes report that the eels will come to nuzzle and play with them and have personalities like dogs. Marine biologists and professional SCUBA divers Ron and Valorie Taylor befriended a pair of eels they named Harry and Fang at the Great Barrier Reef who would remember them and come out to visit them year after year.
(Image: a SCUBA diver hugging a large, brown moray with black spots. End ID)
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(Video: A shot video showing Valeria Taylor and a moray eel she befriended)
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(Video: the song "That's a Moray", a parody of the song "That's Amore" by Dean Martin)
#wet beast wednesday#i accidentally typed moron eel more than once#moray eel#eel#anguiliformes#fish#bony fish#fishblr#fishposting#eelposting#marine biology#biology#ecology#zoology#animal facts#informative#image described#that's a moray#educational#Youtube
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I have a headcanon that Alastor stays in the 1920s and 30s for EVERYTHING accept music.
He's was a radio host, it was his job to stay up to date on those things on earth, and I can't see him not having an appreciation for all kinds of music due to that, especially when he carried it over to his afterlife.
And frankly. I think it would be funny if Charlie and they other's, only knowing about Alasotr's broadcasts of torturing people, never ACTUALLY listen to his radio station, even though judging by him spilling the tea in Stayed Gone, he's at LEAST got a Gissip/news section. I could see him having a variety of entertainment sections, and playing different kinds of music on a Monday morning or after noon (like every few hours of rver day are dedicated to a difrenr genera, like if it's divided by decade or language. Or something else)
But really I'm just picturing the Hazbins NOT KNOWING THIS ans they walk in on this man, cooking them all dinner one night, and his just singing to himself, but he's singing like
It has to be kesha. It has to be Bee's Cotten Candy.
They'd be flabbergasted.
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I'm worry that girl is going to come after me.
Howdy! I'm not really in the Cars fandom anymore but this stupid person has been spamming me with these stupid messages and I just wanted to let you know all of her blogs that I've seen so far.
1. Joyfulprincessfun
2. Alwayscrispyprincess
3. Perfectlygeneralconnoisseur
4. Supertidalwavebouquet
5. Babylightcowboy
6. Scrumptiousladykitty
7. Clearblazestrawberry
8. Steadyphilosopherpeach
9. Almostbriefdragon
10. Greatparadisebear
11. Tenaciouschilddefendor
Those are all Chloe's alts that I've seen, I'm just curious if she's going after Team Fortress 2 blogs now or if she's doing this because I was in the Cars fandom... Over 3 years ago. (That's right, she's held a grudge against me because 3 years ago I didn't want to do a RP with her.)
Thank you so much for the info and update, I really appreciate it.
Yeah, I've been seeing Chloe popping up across multiple fandoms and social medias, since about August of this year. Several individuals in the fandom have also reported these appearances, from Ao3, to Tumblr, to Reddit and Wattpad.
The unfortunate thing is that because of the nature of this person and their insistence on attacking any and all people that even remotely connect to the World of Cars fandom, and their constant changing of accounts, the only thing we can all really do if they show up at our doorstep is to continuously block, report, and cease any and all direct interactions.
Just a reminder too to any folks that are/were at any point in the fandom, if you are getting messages, asks, comments, or other materials saying things like these, you're not alone and it's definitely not personal. This troll of a user has been attempting to target and harass various people for I shit you not literal *years*. Many people have been attempting to curb this issue, but unfortunately as of right now, the only things we can do is to keep doing what we've been doing: block on sight, and do not interact.
Y'all stay safe out there still, and don't let the Chloe bastard here win. You go post all the WoC content you want to, and you hold your heads up high. There's community here that won't tell you to off yourself for something that you didn't do. In times like this, I absolutely urge you to reach out to other content creators and make connections with people. Good things can come out of bad situations, and a lot of the trolling that Chloe has done so far unintentionally brought a lot of WoC people closer together as a result.
Best of luck to all of you, and thank you again for this information my friend!
#stop perfectly genera alconnoisseur#tw sensitive content#tw slurs#world of cars#cars#i made a new hatchtag#spamming alert
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Hey! I'm not a botanist, but I'm in circles where it's a bigger thing and I'm kind of curious about something.
So, from an outsider's perspective, the genus Garcinia has a lot of weird and messy classifications. For example, common species like G. intermedia and G. gardneriana are really similar to Garcinia brasiliensis, to the point that it's pretty controversial if they're actually separate species. The Garcinia species colloquially known as "achachairú" also appears to bear a lot of similarities to that trio (although much less than they share with each other), HOWEVER it's almost exclusively referred to (in cultivation and in studies) as G. humilis, a Carribean species with small oval-shaped leaves, despite actually having very long lanceolate leaves and being exclusively found in the Andean foothills of Bolivia. Also, multiple frequently cultivated species like Luc's garcinia and Russell's sweet garcinia haven't actually been described yet, despite for example the former having a decent amount of scientific interest and frequent genetic testing done on it.
All of these odd classification things and even more others have been pretty well known in my circles for the past 15 years-ish, but still nobody seems anywhere close to a conclusion for them. How long does it usually take for a genus to get organized when it has as many species as Garcinia does? And how do they do it? Do they go around testing every single species or only a few at a time? If a species is currently not named, do the same people usually describe them as part this endeavor, or just leave them for somebody else? I saw Plinia and Artocarpus recently got reshuffled a lot because of some prominent genetic studies on them, and several new species and even genera were added, but it just seems alien to me how stuff like that even ends up happening. There are so many plants out there!
Sorry if I'm asking the wrong person here, but I've been wondering about how this stuff will eventually be resolved for yeeeearrs
There are so many plants out there!
ok im kind of surprised i can offer a few possible answers to this question despite having never heard of this but i think i can. if the question is 'why aren't some plants actually described', this is the primary reason why.
when i was in plant anatomy class in college, the person teaching us was a plant anatomist who assigned us different plants from the greenhouse to dissect and describe in a paper for her, and she told us that we might find something that hadn't been described before, which was pretty shocking to me. what do you mean i could potentially find a new-to-science thing? has nobody in history looked at this plant that's just growing in the greenhouse upstairs??
what she said was that no, sometimes not. there are so many plants out there that it's difficult to do one exact in-depth description and published examination of each species, so what botanists end up doing is doing or finding one in-depth examination of one species in a specific group and assuming that all the others in the group are at least similar, if not the same. which is good because it saves time and works as a shorthand, especially if there's not much funding, but also sometimes it has the potential to overlook more nuanced differences that can go undiscovered for a long time. but that's just botanical species in the conventional sense, which i don't think is as straightforward in what you're describing.
another answer to this question that's more specific to the species you're talking about here is that plants are having sex. they have so so so soooo much sex. few things they enjoy more to be honest. and given that the most conventional (but not only) definition for different species is 'can't have sex with other species because it's too different from them', the lines get blurrier to deal with, and one thing botanists do when the lines between species get too blurry (because of all the sex) is to just assume that they're all part of some kind of hard-to-describe genetic soup with individual plants falling along gradients or spectrums of similarities or differences, and in this case you'll see botanists just name the most prominent species among them and call it the '[most common suspect] complex', which groups together all the ones that happen to be having sex with each other at the same time, just to make them easier to talk about. this typically doesn't mean that they're species-less, but more that they can be thought of as a group with a few distinct points where they can look very distinct, and those points are the species, if that makes sense; see the citrus sex graph at the end for an example.
i also see from a cursory google search that people seem to be planting and eating these in a more widespread way, and people are talking about them on forums and stuff. this is one of the cases in botany where things get tricky, because a person looking for traits in a fruit that's having tons of sex might not actually be looking for the same things botanists are looking for when describing a species-- it might seem easiest to just find which species or few species are the tastiest and grow those, but if it's a genetic soup then all you can really do is do it the old fashioned way and breed individual plants for the traits you want. which, who knows, could end up being a hybrid between all of them.
case in point: again i am not completely up to date with the lore here but i found a forum thread where people were debating which species to plant and the consensus was just to plant multiple species at once, which is fine but is also really funny given that it DOES facilitate even more sex, thus blurring the lines even further and-- if the posters decide to plant the resulting seeds from the fruits-- will create even MORE hybrid plants of no discernible concrete species in the plant soup. the hybrid of a hybrid of a hybrid of a hybrid or whatnot. when does one stop calling it a hybrid between two species and start calling it 'the tree in grandma's backyard that's the tastiest of the berries i've tried'? that is the question, truly, one humanity has had for millennia in the search for the tastiest berry, and at that point it might just be easier to call it a variety or cultivar, which are horticultural terms for just that-- a distinct 'kind' among the same species that taste good subjectively and can be reliably rebred and harvested, like all the apple varieties people debate about.
another reason is that plant phylogenies are hard and brain-twisting and plant taxonomists and systemisists are among our strongest warriors. it's not uncommon at all in botany to be researching something and to find out it's been reshuffled because of a new breakthrough on the case a bunch of people more qualified on the subject decided made more sense like a decades later. sometimes species themselves will even change names multiple times if it turns out that it was described earlier by someone else considering the new circumstances. if you're a really unlucky or just controversial plant all this can happen over and over again until, finally, the trees of math have been resolved in a way that makes sense. how long will it take? surely there is a concrete end to the madness? nah. lol
finally, if you're looking into studies on this, you should know that some phylogeny stuff is opinion-based or subjective, especially at first. what counts as a new group for one group of researchers might not count as one for another. so when you see stuff where people are inventing new categorizations or genuses or whatnot or merging multiple ones together spontaneously, it'll depend on how well supported their reasoning is and what the evidence seems to show, and the larger community of plant taxonomists will, overtime, decide what they want to do with that information-- which may include verifying it or refuting it with more evidence. what researchers are proposing when they split stuff off or merge it together is a new or updated model for thinking about existing information, and that model may be more or less useful than the existing one for the means of actually learning more about the plants.
anyway in short there are lots of reasons why this might not be sorted out and the more sex these plants have the longer it's gonna take. i'm strongly reminded of that one citrus sex graph (its this one) (screenshotted to see it on night mode):
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~ Round 2 is currently underway with Arachnida in the lead! ~
On a quest to find Tumblr’s favorite animal!
(Pictured is my personal favorite animal: the bearded vulture! Photo was taken by me… if you want to see more I post my photography on my instagram: SaritaWolf ;P)
Ever wondered how your favorite animal stacks up against other people’s favorites? Well you’ve come to the right place!
Here’s how this will work…
Polls will be ranked like so:
My fav is in this group!/This is one of my favorite animals!
I love these/this animal(s)
I like these/this animal(s)
I am neutral about these/this animal(s)
I dislike these/this animal(s)
I hate these/this animal(s)
If an animal is your favorite, it receives 5 points
If you love an animal, it receives 3 points
If you like an animal, it receives 1 point
If you are neutral about an animal, no points are added or subtracted to its ranking
If you dislike an animal, 1 point will be taken away
If you hate an animal, 3 points will be taken away
At the end of a polling period, that animal’s points will be its rank.
The top 20 or 50 or 100 or whatever (number to be decided on at a later date) will move on to the next round!
Polls will be open for 7 days
Since it’s not very feasible for me to make 1.5 million polls for every known species of animal, the first round of polls will be by Phylum, the next round will be by Class, then Order, then Family, then Genus, and then Species.
If you want your favs to make it to the top, make sure you know what group they’re in! This can be found via a quick Wikipedia search and a look-see right here (using the bearded vulture as an example):
The Bearded Vulture is in the Phylum Chordata, the Class Aves/Reptilia, the Order Accipitriformes, and the Genus Gypaetus, so now I know to vote for that group as my favorite when it comes up!
The top ranked Phyla will move on to the next round, where they will then be split into Classes, and Round 2 will begin.
Round 3 will take the winning classes and split them by Order, then follow the same pattern.
Round 4 will take the winning orders and split them by Family, then follow the same pattern.
Round 5 will take the winning families and split them by Genus, then follow the same pattern.
Round 6 will take the winning genera and split them by Species, then follow the same pattern.
The Ultimate Round will pit the top 20/50/100 (number also to be decided at a later date) species against each other.
If no clear photos exist of a species, it will not be included in the polls. (So, if you’re a scientist who just discovered a new moth and it’s your favorite animal you better get those photos on iNaturalist quick)
You can have multiple favorites, I am not keeping track of that, but I do ask that you answer honestly!
I will add a bit of propaganda under a cut on each poll, but please feel free to reblog polls and add your own! If you want your fav(s) to win, these polls need to be seen by lots of people!
I do encourage people to not vote blindly. Look at the photos, read the propaganda, maybe even do your own research before you decide how you feel about an animal!
And lastly, please keep things civil! We all have different tastes and someone hating your fav is not a personal affront against you!
That being said, we do not “Kill it with fire” here. It’s ok to not like an animal, but we do not tolerate people calling for violence against a species or wishing a whole species extinct.
Important Tags:
#Animal Polls: All main polls
#Poll Results: Completed polls will be reblogged along with their calculated ranking
#Special Poll: Any extra polls
#Extra Propaganda: Any reblogged propaganda added by voters
#Statistics: A stats post will be posted after each round
#Asks: For any responses to asks (my askbox is open!)
#FAQ: For questions that may come up often
#Extras: For any announcement posts, reblogs, etc
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#Tumblr polls#tumblr tournament#while I would love to use cladistics the linnean way does make it a little easier to organize
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