#not plants

[botanyshitposts]

you ever hear the frogs go roaub roaub out there... based and roaubpilled tbh

[lichenaday]

Hypogymnia hultenii

Powdered honeycomb lichen

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[poop-me-a-flower]

It’s 1am mods are asleep, quick post your pet salamander dissolving into spiral oblivion with joy while eating a fat worm

[pnwnativeplants]

"Wherever they appear (or reappear), the presence of wolves makes an impact, but not just symbolically or politically. Wolves are a keystone species that play a vital role in and bring balance to ecosystems.

For example, the now-famous 1995 reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park led to a surprising number of positive impacts for ecosystems in the region. Without their primary predator, elk had overgrazed much of the park. The resulting loss of vegetation negatively impacted populations of mice and rabbits, as well as the animals that prey on them. Songbirds found fewer available nest sites.

Even bears were impacted as the elk out-competed them for the berries they relied on. In riparian areas throughout the park, the absence of wolves had even more drastic impacts. Overgrazing in riparian areas led to erosion and stream sedimentation and a reduction of the abundance of beavers, fish, insects, birds, and river otters, compromising the health of entire aquatic systems. With wolves back in the mix, the ecosystem rebounded."

[botaniqueer]

For folks who haven’t had the stomach to keep up with the specifics of what’s been happening in Palestine (which is understandable and what’s important is that folks keep up with the broad strokes, so no shame), it’s much much much worse than any of us could possibly have imagined.

I’m not going to post the specifics here unless there’s a link to add as an intermediary for folks who don’t want to read those specifics, but it’s Holocaust levels of bad. It’s what we would have seen in Vietnam, Iraq, Germany, etc, if social media was invented a century earlier.

I’ve avoided looking head on at most of the photos but just the descriptions are making me feel really ill.

Also as usual, I am a Jew, and I feel fully confident in the Holocaust comparisons I make. I mean them with all the weight that this carries.

And what’s more is that, like the previous events I’m referencing, people are still goading and mocking posts about dead people including children. It’s just on a global public platform now.

[succygirl]

This is a type of plant right?

No, but I got a new cat at the start of Sept. Her name is Nina and she's about 7. She's such a baby and has orange cat brain cell syndrome. I love her. She can get so flat. Here she is refusing to move after playing.

[epipremnum-aureum]

Listen, I'm not saying this is the greatest Christmas present of all time

But I'm hard pressed to find anything else that even remotely competes

(also the company donates part of their proceeds to chicken rescues ❤️)

[botanizing]

I just started reading Going Postal by Terry Pratchett and I'm losing my mind at the perfect description of what it's like getting a job at a large institution. This building was once state-of-the-art and has now fallen into disrepair, but the people showing you around have been there so long it's completely normal to them. There's that one guy who's really weird and intense but he does good work if you just let him be.

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

A street in Madagascar.

[plantpest]

ok i made the hot sauce and it's so good. sweet and hot and and waits a second before hitting you with the heat which allows you to actually enjoy the taste. made with my own homegrown chillis and carrots. 10/10 would recommend

[wilsons-book]

Started talking to some random NPC in the BC.

Loved that one "Sylvari are plants and plants shouldn't talk"

[plantdewdrops]

uhhhh anyone else’s tumblr app randomly playing Jersey Mikes ad audio out of nowhere or is my ipad just haunted

[lichenaday]

Cladonia polycarpoides

Thatched peg lichen

Cladonias are referred to as fruticose (shrub-like lichens), but most have a squamulose (scale-like) basal thallus, and some like C. polycarpoides don't always grow the podetial stalks that make them look shrubby, making lichen classification just a little more confusing for all of us. C. polycarpoides has a squamulose basal thallus made up of large (10 mm long), prominent lobules growing in extensive, dense mats on soil and soil pockets on boulders. The upper surface of the squamulose is olive green to brown, and the lower surface is white. The secondary thallus, aka the podetial stalks, are subcylindrical, and have a corticate (bark-like) and fissured surface. They are sparingly branched at the tips, and topped with convex, brown apothecia growing in tight aggregations. C. polycarpoides can be found in temperate regions of North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

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[a-nana-petite]

Riding the high of finding baby crayfish

[smolplonts]

plant eater and pot smasher caught on camera.