#tree fruits

[awkwardbotany]

Tea Time: Kentucky Coffeetree

Learning to identify Kentucky coffeetree in the winter brings you one step closer to making a coffee-like (albeit caffeine-free) beverage from its seeds. Humans have a long history of occasionally using the “beans” of Gymnocladus dioicus to make this tisane, which explains common names like coffeetree, American coffee berry, and coffeenut. The process is a bit time consuming, and the end result…

[marejadilla]

Kamille Corry, “Persimmon”, oil on panel. B. 1966, Houston, Texas.  

[notasoupcompany]

[carmeltheslimy]

Blue and Red Obelisk

Yellow and Green Obelisk

12 x 12 watercolor painting

2024

[chipsy]

[emperornorton47]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The Odyssey would have been a lot shorter if Odysseus gave the Cyclops weed instead of wine.

[hellsitegenetics]

I just know that if the NIH website is being slow that it was your fault. Thank you for your service. Please get off I need to finish my Bio homework I'm begging you please please please

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Closest match: Warburgia ugandensis isolate CL-2023a chromosome 7 Common name: Ugandan Greenheart

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[gina025]

Summer is in the air ☀️

[awakeningthevioletswithin]

Silent Encounter

Watercolor On Black Paper

2024, 8"x 10"

Pink Cherry Blossoms

[thunderstruck9]

Karin Kneffel (German, 1957), FX, 1995. Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 100.1 cm.

[los-plantalones]

hello i would like to tell youse about one of my favorite late summer/early autumn foraged goodies – kousa dogwood fruits!

kousa dogwood trees are native to asia, but are planted in the US in a lot of parks and along sidewalks. the fruit starts to ripen in late summer and is usually available into early fall. you’ll know they’re ready when they turn bright red – but the choicest ones are almost purple.

the texture of a perfectly ripe kousa dogwood fruit is soft and custardy – similar to pawpaws! the taste is a surprising combination of persimmon and pumpkin. the skin is bitter and grainy, but luckily it’s very easy to squeeze out the ripe inner fruit! this is the easiest way to eat them – just suck the pulp out through the hole at the top (pretend you are a hungry giant slurping brains for maximum fun).

they have a very short shelf life, so if you’re not eating them right away it’s best to preserve them for later use. the pulp freezes beautifully, but can also be canned or dehydrated. my favorite way to save them is to freeze portions in ice cube trays – great for adding to smoothies and such!

* This and cornelian cherry (cornus mas) are non-native, edible dogwoods. Native US dogwood trees produce smaller fruits that are either inedible or mildly poisonous.

[nemfrog]

The root system of a fruit tree. Practical and scientific fruit culture. 1866.

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[lieutenant-fred]

More shading practice

[bressynonym]

an apple a day 🍎

[cranberrymoons]

i am of course now imagining sad sack tommy sitting in buck’s kitchen being asked to move into a studio loft covered in photos of his boyfriend with another man and that man’s child and well. lol