Floral Fumo Fridays feat. Yuuka Kazami

The functions of foliar nyctinasty: a review and hypothesis Foliar nyctinasty is a plant behaviour characterised by a pronounced daily oscillation in leaf orientation. During the day, the blades of nyctinastic plant leaves (or leaflets) assume a more or less ...

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Plant nyctinasty – who will decode the ‘Rosetta Stone’? Nyctinasty is the circadian rhythmic nastic movement of leguminous plants in response to the onset of darkness, a unique and intriguing phenomenon that has attracted attention for centuries. The move....

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Another image of the lone white vernal crocus, but this time its petals are closed up for the night.

It has been studied by Linnaeus and Darwin, too. Today, nyctinasty is still a mysterious phenomenon, and we don't exactly know why certain plants do this. Maybe some day, we will know the secrets about nyctinasty.

Second image of the purple croci that are next to Mystery A. The purple croci petals are also closed.

This strange phenomenon is called Nyctinasty! Whenever it becomes dark, either by heavy clouds or by nighttime, certain plants close their petals and leaves.

Image of the lavender striped crocus, but this time the petals are closed up.

BONUS: On a sunny day, croci have their petals spread out and they look pretty normal. However...

Also, for the last post, you can see some pictures of Mystery A on here next to the purple ones. That one will bloom pretty soon and we will know what those flowers are, but growing flowers does take lots of patience and time.

I only got the Yuuka fumo during the fall, and fall and winter are pretty challenging when finding the more popular Angiosperms.

Crocus is also part of the Iris family, which is a family of flowers with vibrant colors, and most of the Yakumo family's names are based on colors (incl. Chen).

Crocus is a flower that blooms between the end of winter and the beginning of spring, so it blooms on the boundaries between seasons!

Spring is here! And that means that there will be many flowers blooming! I love to take pictures of my Yukari fumo with croci, because I think it suits her the most.

The namesake of the family name is because many flowers in this plant family have vibrant and a large variety of colors.

Vernus comes from vernal which means spring, since this crocus blooms at the beginning of spring. The family name Iridaceae comes from Iris flowers, and those have their namesake with the god of rainbows: Iris.

The name of the flower Crocus is pretty self-explanatory and has been used to describe this flower and Crocus sativus since ancient times, so it is both the common name and also the name of the genus.

They are noted for their small but showy appearance. These ones are not the type of crocus that grows saffron which are a deeper scarlet color on the stigma and bloom in the fall, those are autumn crocus, or Crocus sativus.

These flowers also only bloom for a short while, but afterwards they just start looking like normal grass throughout the year.

These flowers usually grow around 15 centimeters tall. At the bottom of these flowers underground lies a structure that is similar to a bulb, but much different called a corm.

A cluster of a deeper purple crocus, but there is some leaves of Mystery A (from the last post/thread) beside them.

They are native to Southern and Eastern Europe, but they are mostly found (and thrive!) on mountain ranges such as their native areas of the Alps or the Balkans.

A lone white crocus vernus, but it does have some minimal purple stripes.

Usually, this flower comes in shades of yellow, purple, white and a very light lavender with purple stripes. I found all of the possible colors of this crocus flower except yellow.

Closer look at the lavender vernal crocus with around 6 petals and deeper purple stripes. There is an orange tip in the middle which is the pistils.

This is Vernal Crocus(Crocus vernus) of the Iris family (Iridaceae). It is a very common garden/house flower that normally blooms between the end of winter and the beginning of spring.

And while it was cloudy everywhere else, it was sunny here: a vampire's signature weakness. Battles can no longer be fought.
Both Yuuka and the vampire objected to this rule, but nonetheless followed it. What is a youkai who can't battle?

Yuuka found herself back in Mayohiga but saw the vampire and Yukari together. Yukari said that the flowers were fragrant to many, but to a vampire they were foul and had weakened them.

Yukari fumo to the left, Yuuka fumo at the center, and a Remilia fumo to the right. Between the Yukari fumo and the Yuuka is lavender Vernal Crocus (crocus vernus) with purple stripes.

Floral Fumo Fridays of the Week (SPRING!!): Vernal Crocus (Crocus vernus) 🧵
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As soon as the snow melted, all of these plants immediately grew and budded flowers within days. Some of these mysteries grew pretty late this year, they're supposed to grow like this in late-February, but it's been so cold lately. So for some of them they are technically winter flowers. 😶 (13/END)

Winter is honestly one of the most challenging seasons to find blooming flowering plants (Angiosperms), and many of them that are winter blooming only bloom flowers really late in the season. (12/13)

Happy International Women's Day, of course. 💜 Touhou Project is a series where a majority of the cast are women that play many very important roles in shaping its world. All of these plants will have their own posts in the future and we will show which one's which. (11/13)

The flowering buds of Mystery C. The petals are red. The branches are spotty and shiny.

Another closer look at the flowering buds of Mystery C on a branch. They are a bit of a spoiler, they are showing golden stamens of the budding flower already!

They have very showy flowering buds on them, and they are a bit of a spoiler on what they are. 😅 But we have to wait for them to fully bloom and find out what they really are! (10/13)

A mystery bush with red budding flowers. The branches are smooth and silvery. This plant is Mystery C.

Last one is Mystery C. This one is much different than the rest. It is woody and tree-like and has a smooth branches a little bit similar to the plant Rosa multiflora that grew Rose Hips and the dormant plant with a ghastly color Rubus occidentalis that we have shown before. (9/13)

Another image of Mystery B showing the leaves with white stripes and some of the leaves are shown growing around a center.

One clear note is that they also have a white stripe on its leaves. They are super tiny, and some of the leaves seem to be more tube-like. They seem to have an origin around a center. What could this plant be? (8/13)

Closer look at the plant Mystery B. This time it shows a layered leaf structure and has a white stripe at the center of each leaf.

This one also has a pretty thick and layered structure similar to Mystery A at the bottom, which indicates that there is a bulby like structure as well. These two plants could be related in some way. (7/13)

Yuuka looking at very tiny leaves of a plant, Mystery B. At a first glance, it looks like ordinary grass.

The next one is Mystery B. This plant can get overlooked at a first glance as being "grass," and I'll give a hint that it is most definitely something much more than grass. (6/13)