#umbel and panicle

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Inflorescence—the mode of development and arrangement of flowers on an axis; the budding and unfolding of blossoms; flowering

Illustration of Inflorescence

Raceme - a simple inflorescence (as in the lily of the valley) in which the flowers are borne on short stalks of about equal length at equal distances along an elongated axis and open in succession toward the apex

Corymb - a flat-topped inflorescence, specifically: one in which the flower stalks arise at different levels on the main axis and reach about the same height and in which the outer flowers open first

Umbel - a racemose inflorescence typical of the carrot family in which the pedicels arise from about the same point to form a flat or rounded flower cluster

Compound umbel - all the umbel inflorescences arise from a common point and appear to be at about the same level (e.g., wild carrot)

Capitulum - a racemose inflorescence (as of the sunflower) with the axis shortened and dilated to form a rounded or flattened cluster of sessile flowers

Spike - an elongated inflorescence similar to a raceme but having the flowers sessile on the main axis

Compound spike - is known as the spike of spikelets. Sessile flowers (spikelets) are present on the branched main-axis. Examples: wheat, barley, sorghum, oats.

Panicle - a pyramidal loosely branched flower cluster

Cyme - an inflorescence in which each floral axis terminates in a single flower, especially: a determinate inflorescence of this type containing several flowers with the first-opening central flower terminating the main axis and subsequent flowers developing from lateral buds

Sources: 1 2 3 Word Lists: Flowers ⚜ Garden ⚜ Victorian Flower Language

[bonefall]

hello! I was searching through the clanmew lexicon spreadsheet and I didn't seen the -petal suffix.

Clanmew makes a distinction for several different petal shapes, which can be included under the 'petal' suffix! Sometimes these end up being translated in odd ways, making irregular Warrior names that the translator had to scramble to fix.

They often get absorbed into the "Flower" suffix broadly, along with specific species names.

'Standard petal' = Pai The fleshy type of petal you see in lilies, pansies, and roses.

Fluff petal = Pfefi These are long, skinny petals almost always seen in fluffy clusters, like dandelions, thistles, and tansy, so it has a 'fuzzy' vibe.

Short bell = Oope Bluebells, clowslips, bell heather, etc.

Long bell = Yioo Like the long part of a daffodil.

Cluster = Peske A bunch of tiny flowers, like those on hydrangeas, wild carrot, meadowsweet, and so on. Can be translated as 'umbel' or 'panicle' at translator's discretion

The famous cat in-canon with the petal suffix is,

Rosepetal = Mwuepai

Named after domestic roses that Daisy misses from the barn, the name was met with a fair amount of suspicion from the Clan cats. They don't trust human things, especially not roses with their hypnotic scene and unnaturally bright petals.

That's where she gets her name, from the odd, thick petals of a human's rose. She has complicated feelings towards the name, and wonders if it fueled her father's resentment of her in some way. Enough to make him train in the Dark Forest, and attack her brother Toadstep.

[magical-rae]

‪I have a flower-themed poem called Sunday Stroll in the latest Umbel and Panicle! The poem uses ze/hir pronouns and is about a flowering lithop.

[herbalhomies]

Each Part of a Plant - And it’s Importance - Flowers

~ Flowers ~ 

✪ German Chamomile, Marigold, Elder and Passion flower are some of the important medicinal flowers of herbal medicine.

✪ All flowers share some common features. All have several component parts, each with their own specific function. All flowers form from an embryonic primordium and this will develop into a bud. In herbal medicine, we sometimes harvest certain flowers in the bud stage, such as roses and St John’s Wort (when it’s being made into an infused oil).

✪ In botany, a whorl or verticil is an arrangement of leaves, sepals, petals, stamens, or carpels that radiate from a single point and surround or wrap around the stem or stalk.

✪ All flowers form on the tip of a stalk known as a peduncle whose tip swells into a structure known as a receptacle. Other parts of the flower attach itself to the receptacle in a whorl. We usually see a whorl of small green-leaf like projections called sepals (there are usually between three or five sepals around a receptacle).

✪ Collectively sepals are known as calyx. The calyx in most plants, serves to protect the flower in its bud.

✪ Another whorl which forms around the receptacle consists of petals. Collectively, the petals are known as the corolla. As you probably know, attractive corolla attracts pollinators, and there are markings on the corolla that we can’t see but are visible to bees!

✪ Petals may be separate or they may be fused together. Not all corollas are ‘pretty��. In fact, sometimes we see a flower and don’t register it as one due to their muted colours and small petals. Eg, Hops are flowers with green petals. In a wind pollinated plant, there might be no corolla at all.

✪ Together the corolla and the calyx are known as perianth.

✪ In some plants bracts extend from the receptacle. These are a type of leaf, sometimes green, sometimes colourful. It serves the same purpose as the petals. In herbal medicine, we pick the bracts as well as the flowers from the Lime tree (Tilia europaea/cordata).

✪ Stamens also emerge from the receptacle, from the base of the pistil, a green structure that rises from the centre of the flower.

✪ Stamen feature a fine filament (which looks like a tiny stalk) atop of which sits a sac-like anther. Within the anther, pollen grains develop.

✪ The pistil is a closed-end vase shaped structure composed of the uppermost stigma. The stalk like style underneath connects to the lower ovary, which is present as a swelling at the base.

✪ It is the ovary that will ultimately develop into the fruit. Each ovary contains chambers and to the walls of these chambers, tiny oval shaped ovules attach by way of tiny stalks.

✪ With some patience and a sharp knife, you can open an ovary to examine these. Ovules develop after a flower has been fertilised and will eventually develop into seeds. Seeds are also gathered for use in herbal medicine. 

✪ In relation to flowers, you may see the term inflorescence. This refers to formations of groups of flowers on a peduncle (rather than just a single flower on a peduncle). Inflorescence formations include spikes (as seen in Lavender), panicles (as seen in Oats), heads (as seen in Dandelion), cymes ( as seen in Sundew), catkins (as seen in Birch trees), corymbs ( as seen in Hawthorn), umbels (as seen in Valerian) and racemes ( as seen in Lily of the Valley (a restricted herb)).

[crabpdf]

The names of specialized inflorescences genuinely sound like pokemon like what is catkin/ament? Spadix? Hypanthodium? Cyme? Panicle? Umbel?

[pussymagicuniverse]

the siren's heart

poetry by Lauren Walsburg

i ate up my own heart no vein or valve was spared sinew and sin disappeared leaving an empty cavity behind

then i met a siren she told me a tale of my future the despair to come and the hope to be smothered she laughed – i wept time froze i ripped out her heart and wrote a new future for myself upon it

i plunged her heart into my empty cavity it sat there nice and snug

she swore to obey me and i swore to keep her heart safe but the darkness crept back in with nothing to keep it at bay

so once again i ate up my own heart the one that had once belonged to the siren i ate it until nothing was left and the siren took her last breath

Lauren Walsburg is an Australian writer, editor, and artist. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Skive Magazine, The Mystic Blue Review, Umbel & Panicle, The Green Light and Riggwelter. She is the Prose Editor of Cauldron Anthology and Minute Magazine, Blog Editor/Interview Correspondent for The Cerurove and Copy Editor of Newfound. Her debut poetry collection Ink Stained Heart was released in April 2017.

[infinity-and-luck]

“Perhaps you’ve encountered someone who browses a dictionary not as a reader but as grazing animal, and spends hours nose-deep in the grass and forbs of its pages, buried in its meadow while losing sight of the sun. I recommend it. Browsing is good for you. You can grow giddy with the words’ shapes and sounds, their corymbs, their umbels and their panicles. These readers are unearthers, thrilled with their gleaning. The high of surprise at discovering a new word’s delicacy or the strength of its roots is a pretty potent one. Let’s find some now. (Prefaces to dictionaries as faintly patronising in tone.) For example, maybe you know these already: psithurism means the rustling of leaves; part of a bee’s thigh is called a corbicula, from the Latin word for basket.”

So, I got a book yesterday called “The Liar’s Dictionary” by Eley Williams (despite my asking for nonfiction recommendations, this is a fiction). And I’m literally only a few pages into the preface and have teared up (not in a sad way, just in a “oh, I like this” kind of way). The plot of the story, from what I’ve read on the inside sleeve of the book seems really good. So here is my preemptive recommendation if anyone is looking for a book.

[kevinscottgardens]

30 September through 13 October 2019

Autumn is here. The garden is slowing down. The first leaves on the Nyssa sylvatica are putting on their fabulous fiery show.

Last week Louisa and I sewed the wildflower meadow with poppies, chamomile, corncockle and cornflower and barley. It will be nice to see how it turns out in the spring.

This week we started moving the tender plants in pots into their winter homes, mostly into the tropical corridor. The citrus were put into the polyhut to overwinter. Winter protection has started.

This year we are going to do our best to stop using single-use plastic (aka zip ties), returning to twine. It will be interesting to see how much longer this takes. Last year we erected all the structures in record time due mostly to the fact that zip ties are so much faster to utilise than sewing twine through bubble wrap or fleece.

Friday after work I headed to Kew to collect a long-awaited Kerria japonica for the Asian woodland garden. They are surprisingly difficult to find; only the various cultivars are readily available and I only want the species and this one was wild collected, so bonus!

Plant ident of autumn climbers by Louisa

Cannabaceae Humulus lupulus 'Wye Northdown'

Convolvulacea Ipomoea lobata

Curcubitaceae Lagenaria siceraria

Curcubitaceae Luffa aegyptiaca

Geraniaceae Pelargonium [Antik Violet] = ‘TikVio’ (Antik Series)

Leguminaceae Lablab purpureus

Malvaceae Abutilon x milleri

Polemoniaceae Cobaea scandens

Ranunculaceae Clematis tibetana subsp.vernayi

Vitaceae Vitis coignetiae

A funny story about the Ipomoea lobata. When I posted this to Tumblr, their idiotic algorithms thought it was adult content!

We are preparing for the Christmas Fair held in November, so we harvested 200 quince for one of our volunteers who will make delicious quince jam and sell it at the fair.

This stunning sight is on my way home from the station...

Last weekend I was in Paris visiting Lucien and François simply because “Paris is always a good idea.” (Audrey Hepburn) This weekend started with taco and jacuzzi night at Elizabeth and Rob’s on Friday. Saturday it never stopped raining which made doing all my errands a little wetter. I also booked some last-minute trips to see friends before the end of the year.

This morning I found these interesting mushrooms growing in the back garden. I fear it is hone fungus; a neighbouring Prunus suddenly died this summer!

Plant of the week 4 October

Convolvulaceae Ipomoea lobata (Cerv.) Thell.

common name(s) - Spanish flag, firecracker vine synonym(s) - Convolvulus mina Kuntze, Ipomoea mina Voss, Mina cordata Micheli, Mina lobata Cerv., Quamoclit lobata (Cerv.) House, Quamoclit pallescens Brongn. ex Neumann conservation rating - none native to - Mexico location - dicotyledon order beds, accession _____ leaves - three-lobed flowers - crimson-flushed stems bear one-sided racemes of small, tubular, dark red flowers which fade to orange and then a creamy yellow in summer habit - fast-growing, deciduous, twining climber to 5m tall habitat - no information found pests - galsshouse red spider mite disease - generally disease-free hardiness - to 5ºC (H1c) soil - moist and well-drained sand, chalk or loam sun - full sun, sheltered propagation - seed pruning - none nomenclature - Convolvulaceae - entwined, a name in Pliny; Ipomoea - worm-resembling, the sinuous twining stems; lobata - with lobes, lobed, lobus NB - AGM

References, bibliography:

Gledhill, David, (2008) “The Names of Plants”, fourth edition; Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 978-0-52168-553-5

IUCN [online] http://www.iucnredlist.org/search [13 Oct 19]

Plant List, The [online] http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/tro-8501920 [13 Oct 19]

Royal Horticultural Society [online] https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/45959/i-Ipomoea-lobata-i/Details [13 Oct 19]

Plant of the week 11 October

Araliaceae Tetrapanax papyrifer (Hook.) K.Koch

common name(s) - rice-paper plant; Chinese: 通草 tong cao synonym(s) - Aralia mairei H.Lév.; Aralia papyrifera Hook.; Didymopanax papyrifer (Hook.) K. Koch; Didymopanax papyriferus (Hook.) K.Koch; Echinopanax papyriferus (Hook.) Kuntze; Fatsia papyrifera (Hook.) Miq. ex Witte; Panax papyrifer (Hook.) F.Muell. conservation rating - Least Concern native to - China, Taiwan location - revolutionary fibres in the useful garden, accession _____ leaves - rosette of large leaves at the top carried on 400mm to 600mm petioles, the leaf blade orbicular, deeply palmately lobed with five to eleven primary lobes, the central lobes larger and Y-forked near the end; stems and bottom of leaves are covered with an indumentum which can be a lung irritant to some people; avoid looking up while cutting off a leaf above you because the indumentum will fall into your eyes, nose, throat and create quite a painful situation flowers - large panicle of hemispherical to globular umbels near the end of the stem; have four or five small white petals; fruit is a small drupe habit - semi-evergreen, to 7m tall, with usually unbranched stems habitat - forest in subtropical or tropical moist lowlands pests - generally pest-free disease - generally disease-free hardiness - to -10ºC (H4) soil - well-drained sand, chalk or loam sun - full sun to part shade, sheltered propagation - seed, removing suckers pruning - damaged, dead, diseased nomenclature - Araliaceae - aralia - origin uncertain, could be from French Canadian, aralie; Tetrapanax - four-partite, describing the floral structure; papyrifer - paper-bearing NB - monotypic genus; pith from the stem is used to make a substance commonly known as rice paper; more properly termed pith paper.

References, bibliography:

Gledhill, David, (2008) “The Names of Plants”, fourth edition; Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 978-0-52168-553-5

IUCN [online] https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/147626842/147626844 [13 Oct 19]

Plant List, The [online] http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-202449 [13 Oct 19]

Royal Horticultural Society [online] https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/191283/i-Tetrapanax-papyrifer-i-Rex/Details [13 Oct 19]

Wikipedia [online] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapanax [13 Oct 19]

[blackwolfchng]

Inaugural issue of Umbel & Panicle (Seed)

is now up and running!

If you love poetry of a plant/botany kind: http://umbelandpanicle.weebly.com/issue-one.html