#vascular plant

[ognimdo2002]

I didn't explain.

The lycophyte is very important role in history of planet Earth during Silurian period 🤢

[wildlandrover]

@headspace-hotel, I know you like to talk about cane breaks sometimes. You interested in this?

Cool Plant: Arundinaria gigantea

Giant River Cane

This plant is extra special! Not only is it one of three members of the genus Arundinaria, which together are North America's only native bamboo, it also once formed extensive bamboo forests in the American Southeast known as canebrakes, where the bamboo stalks could exceed 30 feet tall! The bamboo forests are thought to have covered 10 million acres of the southeastern United States.

River cane grows in damp areas such as low-lying woods and the edges of creeks, and has incredible abilities for resisting erosion and filtering contaminants from groundwater. It is a fire dependent species, and canebrakes were maintained by Native Americans using controlled burns. Native American peoples such as the Cherokee and the Choctaw used the river cane as a super tough all purpose crafting material for everything from flutes and blowguns to baskets, backpacks, mats and bed frames.

Nowadays, it mostly only exists in small patches along fences and in ditches, where it usually grows no taller than 10 feet or so. Since it grows in large clonal colonies and only produces seeds once before the entire patch dies, it is hard for it to reproduce these days. The destruction of the canebrakes by colonists' cattle, plowing, and neglect of the caretaking practices are thought to have helped drive the Carolina parakeet and passenger pigeon to extinction.

Many other species depend on the Arundinaria bamboos to live: there are at least 9 butterfly and moth species that use it as a host plant, and some of the rarest plants in the Southeast, including the Venus flytrap, are often found in remaining fragments of canebrakes.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

This condition exists today in some lower vascular plants (Figure 19.25) and a few angiosperms, such as certain cacti.

"Plant Physiology and Development" int'l 6e - Taiz, L., Zeiger, E., Møller, I.M., Murphy, A.

[rattyexplores]

Beautiful button orchid growing on a palm tree.

17/01/24 - Dischidia nummularia

QLD:WET - Cairns

[thevalleyisjolly]

They should make a Star Trek-themed educational TV series where real scientists dress up as Starfleet officers, pretend to beam onto an alien planet with one or two attributes related to their field of study, and then explain the science behind those things.

[spiffyspidr]

Whilst you were out touching grass, I was touching moss you fool!

[futurebird]

None of you thought it might be important to tell me that ferns have sperm that swim???

So.

None of you thought it might be important to tell me that ferns have sperm that swim??? I just had to find all this out on my own?

And, (apparently, & no one thought to bring this up either🙄) fern plants are only one form… they have this 'other form' (tiny, ephemeral, difficult to find in the wild) alternates generations-- Fern spores don't grow into ferns! (WHAT) they grow into 'gemetophytes' (WHAT) THEN you get a fern.

Feel like I've uncovered a massive scandal.

[dailybotany]

I'm so tired of the notes my foraging post only being about mushroom consumption. Yes. Mushrooms can be hazardous. Yes, they are more hazardous than plants (partly because their characters are more subtle and more easily confused!!). However, SO ARE PLANTS. I'm so tired of the fear mongering surrounding mushrooms in the foraging community while plants are treated as essentially harmless. You need to know what you are looking at! You need to be able to describe it! Or you WILL eventually hurt yourself or others! If you cannot reliably key out a species, you cannot reliably double check yourself.

[coffeenuts]

[yubbi45]

I told myself I was going to write this weekend, but instead, i hyperfixated on grabbing references for what Vash's wings are actually like

I can write about fluttering feathers all I want, but my autism knows that's not Right

There are more scenes that I didn't get around to grabbing, but I realized that might be pointless, because his wings in episode 12 are probably a panicked defense action and will settle on a more solid form the more he uses them.

For now, they're rather inky-black, solid elongated structures throughout the mass, with small blobs(reminiscent of wild trailing jade) flowing from his back into the "wing" itself

🥺 the worst part is, it's probably made up of his plant sap, and it's so dark because it's contaminated/wounded from Kni forcing himself inside and accelerating Vash's root growth beyond anything reasonable.

[thelethalsilence]

Marchantia polymorpha, a fire-following liverwort Dixie Fire Burn Scar Lassen Volcanic National Park, August 2024

[rxttenfish]

honestly i think in general i need to do more research into plants because magic-based life would operate much more like plants than animals, even if they look closer to animals (most of the time)

[callmethehunter]

That’s not a hand. It’s a paw. And that vein running down his forearm? Well it just hints at something else - if you follow my drift

[rattyexplores]

Mother-of-Millions

Kalanchoe delagoensis

20/03/23 - NSW

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

xylem is such a fun word but i don’t see it used very often and i feel bad for it, so it’s going in the name list

xylem and phloem are the parts of plants that…i forgot what they do. they’re in the inside of the stem or something i think. they help transport water and such? maybe?

y’know my biology teacher was great but i don’t remember basically anything of what i was taught about plants because i was so stressed trying to figure out how the fuck photosynthesis works

[spiffyspidr]

Look upon my beautiful mosses and weep (tears of joy), for there is nothing better than these!!