Dharini

There are just so many fucked up parts to this story: The abortion happened before Roe v Wade was overturned. A young man was involved but only got probation while the mom and daughter face jail. Facebook gave the cops their private messages. A friend turned them in. This is all just so so fucked up

💯 I have to go for a work trip for the first time in a long time and I’m struggling to pack appropriate clothes

Orchid*

Thought orchards were only tropical? Meet the Pacific coralroot which is a leafless, parasitic and perennial orchid that grows in shady forest floors in the Cascades and parts of the Rocky Mountains 🧪 🌸

💯 ya this is also one of those things where either we’re asked to change how we react when maybe we should be instilling humility/self awareness in them

We all need the confidence of a mediocre middle aged white dude. Where can we buy some?

Does not compute. And here I am doubting my ability to do something that I’ve already been doing for several years smh

Oh ya forgot the 🧪 on this one 😅

Butterfly bush, native to central China and Japan is a favorite of butterflies as the name suggests but funnily enough doesn’t provide food for larvae or caterpillars and might out compete those due to its invasive nature 🧪

White spotted pine sawyer beetle native to Washington, look at those beautiful spots and the long antennae! 🧪

A gouache painting of Himalayan blackberry flowers with a couple of bees on a blue background

The blackberry bushes that abound being pollinated. Himalayan blackberries can be easily distinguished from their non invasive and native cousins by their thick ridged stems and leaves that are clustered in fives.

Meritocracy is the most insidious myth that has been ingrained in all of us as children

Wow these are amazing! How do you achieve the iridescence? Any specific metallic gouaches? Or just magic 💫

That’s perfect! 🤩

Is there a term for “someone is doing something for the greater good but it might inconvenience me a tiny bit so I don’t like it” energy?

Like most of the plants/flowers I come across on my walks, Feverfew is non-native and invasive where I live. Originally from Eurasia, it’s name derives from Latin “fever reducer” and is sold in powdered form as traditional herbal medicine under the name Glitinum to treat headaches. Ymmv. 🌸🧪

Maybe I should watch x files 😁

Digitalis purpurea (common foxglove) is a poisonous ornamental, but the toxin in it led to the synthesization of an important heart medicine - digoxin! Apparently in WW2, due to supply chain shortages soldiers used to collect medicinal herbs for medicine, and foxglove was used to regulate heartbeats

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Trailing ice plant also called pink carpet for these gorgeous long lasting blooms 🌸 is native to South Africa, though you can see it extensively in California as ground cover and thrives in rocky soil. Leaves produce hallucinogens and in SA they make an alcoholic drink called khadi from it 🍷 🧪

Also under “puducherry police” it says Guard Lion 🦁 in Tamil 😆

This is my split rock plant blooming back in 2018, one of my absolute favorite house plant moments

Dung Beetles Navigate by the Milky Way They're the first known insects guided by starlight

blue sky is lacking in the delightfully-weird-but-legitimately-science department so it’s a good time to take about my favorite study of all time, which determined that dung beetles navigate via the light of the milky way: https://www.science.org/content/article/dung-beetles-navigate-milky-way

The internet is going to continue to get much worse

Todays bloom is Bear’s breeches aka Acanthus Mollis which was first described in 1736 (!) by Linnaeus. The shape of its leaves features heavily in Greco Roman architecture and Helen of Troy was also described as having a dress with acanthus leaves as embroidery 🌸 🧪

Definitely a pollinator favorite in these parts..the shrubs are always buzzing 🤩

Todays bloom is Silene Coronaria - leaves and stems are a grayish silvery felted green, with tiny hairs discouraging insects and ants to climb or eat them. Coronaria translates to “used for garlands” in Latin, which makes perfect sense given how bright the flowers are 🤩 🧪

Would love to be there for plants and wildlife related content!

Blackberry (this one is the Himalayan blackberry) which is extremely invasive in the Pacific Northwest, here forming impenetrable thickets if left unchecked. Produces copious amounts of fruit for foraging though 😁