#subarboreous

[dayasan]

📷 Subarboreal cave, Fodina Caestino, Succarpe

[ashleysingermfablog]

Wk 16, 25th of May, 2024 Research

The spot under a tree

Ashley Singer, research images: under the trees, 2024, fieldwork images on my iPhone

bosky: having abundant trees or shrubs. 2 : of or relating to a woods.

arboreal: living in trees.

subarboreal: living or thriving under trees.

shaded: screen from direct light.

abscission: when leaves fall off the trees, this is called abscission. Plants contain a hormone called auxin which helps them grow. The shedding of leaves or flowers and fruits is an effect known as Abscission. This effect takes place in plants as a result of hormonal interaction.

inflorescence: in a plant, flowers may grow either as a single flower or as a group. The inflorescence is defined as the arrangement of a cluster of flowers on a floral axis. The inflorescence is of two types, they are: Racemose and Cymose

bedeck: the forest floor was bedecked with flowers.

underwood: small trees and shrubs growing beneath taller timber trees.

underbrush: shrubs and small trees forming the undergrowth in a forest.

plant detritus: detritus or dead organic material and its constituent nutrients are added to the top layer of soil, commonly known as the litter layer or O horizon ("O" for "organic"). Litter is an important factor in ecosystem dynamics, as it is indicative of ecological productivity and may be useful in predicting regional nutrient cycling and soil fertility.

duff: decaying vegetable matter covering the ground under trees."generally the fires in this area burn the duff and underbrush and scorch a few trees"

plant litter: litter, soil litter, litterfall or duff) is dead plant material (such as leaves, bark, needles, twigs, and cladodes) that have fallen to the ground.

vegetal: relating to plants.

prairie: a large area of level or rolling grassland

embower: surround or shelter (a place or a person), especially with trees or climbing plants.

wilted: of a plant, leaf, or flower) become limp through heat, loss of water, or disease; droop.

withered: (of a plant) dry and shrivelled.

undergrowth: the plants that grow on a forest floor, including shrubs and small trees, are called undergrowth. If you leave a marked hiking trail in the woods, you might have a hard time getting through the undergrowth.

understory: an underlying layer of vegetation. specifically : the vegetative layer and especially the trees and shrubs between the forest canopy and the ground cover.

forage crop: plants eaten by the animals directly as pasture, crop residue, or immature cereal crops, but it is also used more loosely to include similar plants cut for fodder and carried to the animals, especially as hay or silage. i.e. Sorghum grown as forage crop.

silage: grass or other green fodder compacted and stored in airtight conditions, typically in a silo, without first being dried, and used as animal feed in the winter.

bush layers: healthy bush has a structure of many 'layers', from tiny seedlings on the forest floor up to the tallest trees towering over the forest canopy (see image below).

Healthy bush is characterised by a deep covering of leaves on the ground (leaf litter) which, together with rotting logs and branches, provide ideal growing conditions for a mosaic of ferns, mosses, lichens and emerging seedlings. Above the forest floor there should be an understory and sub-canopy layer, making it difficult to see far into the bush before there is a ‘wall’ of vegetation. Understory plants such as coprosmas, kawakawa, mingimingi and tree ferns occupy the layer from a height of approximately 20 cm to 2.5 m. Above this, the taller sub-canopy trees (e.g. mahoe, pate, putaputaweta and pigeonwood) form a layer between the understory and the canopy.

[crimkit]

11/04/24

A warm Sunday afternoon beneath a tree—I recline all a-supine, sunbeams cutting through leafcover—I could almost use a hayblade in my mouth

to complete the facade. These kindly, yellow months: I live right in these times with worry nokinds, anxiety's kithandkin absent, no anger, anguish, allsoforth...

Clouds curl like vinetendrils around the sky, sinking around and into each and every other in dovesoft embrace, white as same yet cold as the palerime

watermatter of whose stuff they are made. As I remain in place, all else remains in back/forth flux: leafcover shudders, cumulus gives way to cirrocumulus

gives way to a brightwide sapphiric glow (she of Lesbos, I'm sure, would relish this microbreeze. It's pliable, but with a leaden constancy)--my eyes shut.

I miss this asceticism, transcending-and-renouncing of desires (even just for this subarboric moment)— could it lead to a kind of creative apotheosis? Maybe,

but it's just a hypothesis. The hippies might have it right, in spirit anyway: tuning out from the drag, man, and hooking into the Great Pyramidsystem

we all came from; latterday hippies who drink organically freerange kombucha (made only with veggiefed SCOBYs, of course); a freerun kind of

freelove (sober, unhormonated 'cuz that artificial shit ain't in the Great Design); the biggest baggest pants you'll ever see—yet, even still,

these hippies might seem hep, in the know with Happenings (physical, in the astral plane, et- ceteraetcetera) but these latterday hippies still live

on their phones; still live hyperconnected in the same usecases, posting the same posts—they're pluggedrightin, wiredrightup—L.D.H.s buying the same things I might

from the same places, eating the same undersized and overpriced food—in the end, it's a matter of degrees. The hippie-writer-ascetic-treehugger life calls, but

the line is dead, in this age of waves and radiation. I open up my eyes, see leafcover a-shiver—new clouds, new shapes, these ones not so viney:

ooh, a sailboat!, that one's a hand!, that one looks like a brand-spanking-new Black & Decker saw!, et- ceteraetcetera. I'm happy where-and-when I am,

under this tree—my own lifetime beckons me on, and I bet those hippies never had any coffee that was quite so good as mine.

[graywyvern]

( via / gordon hilgers on fb )

Malagueña.

"Something that is SUBLACUSTRINE is found at the bottom of a lake. Something that is SUBNUBILAR is located beneath clouds. Something that is SUBFLUVIAL is found on a riverbed. Something that is SUBARBOREAL lives below trees. Something that is SUBUNDANE is found below the waves." --@haggardhawks

Ghost.

the labyrinth goes dark suspension bridge into mist windowpanes of karst & senseless music

The banned Dead Loop.

"full moon lovers part in the grass"

--@poem_exe

Go Down Moses.