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Ryan

@lost-in-botany.bsky.social

Queer botanist and botanical illustrator, with a keen interest in Parasitic plants, Particularly Pilostyles!

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My Prosthechea cochleata is in bloom again 😍

05.03.2026 09:47 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Not bad for a phone pic! The Luna eclipse, so eery to see the earth shadow! Soo cool

03.03.2026 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Potted up my Anigozanthos gabrielae into some bigger pots! This little Kangaroo Paw is pretty much a miniature species found mostly found around the Stirling ranges and surrounding areas and a distant population in the cape arid NP! Excited to see the flowers!

02.03.2026 04:14 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m still getting the hang of them, but I have some seedling that I took from my grow tent and have them out in the patio and they been doing much better! I just caved and got this one ahaha πŸ˜… now I just got to keep it going

01.03.2026 04:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you have a bright windowsill you can adapt them to be inside, bright but not full sun tho, I imagin a window sill that gets the morning sun would work well. Or in a cool sheltered spot in a shade/greenhouse. these ones have been acclimatised outside in the Perth hills so hoping they do well

01.03.2026 04:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They had a display plant of this hanging like near 7ft long! Was amazing!

01.03.2026 04:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Go to a garden show, surely I won’t buy any more plants right… just look right… mission failed πŸ˜‚ but omg this Nepenthes truncata x veitchii is a unit!

01.03.2026 04:06 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The dots progress further! Getting close to be catching fungus gnats πŸ˜‚

25.02.2026 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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And so begins the very long wait for this first flowering Paph micranthum seedling to bloom! I was not expecting it to flower soo soon!

22.02.2026 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My Restrepia is always blooming for me 😍

22.02.2026 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Getting there!

22.02.2026 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Working more on the shading, bit by bit it’s coming together!

08.02.2026 06:40 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh yeah in the wild I see a lot here under allocasuarina as well, I think it’s something about the litter being beneficial for the fungi. Tho in cultivation unless the fungus they use is in the pot I’m not sure if it would have a similar effect πŸ€”

05.02.2026 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I got it like this, probably done to keep soil off the rosettes of leaves. Many grow under sheoaks, and I’m guessing people think this may help promote beneficial fungi, not sure if this species is specific or not to a particular orchid mycorrhiza tho πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

05.02.2026 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Omg such an amazing shot of them 😍

04.02.2026 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Really hard to get a good photo of this plant, but this is Utricularia gibba, a species of bladderwort that looks more like a green carnivorous hair ball than a plant tho πŸ˜‚

04.02.2026 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My little Pterostylis curta tubers are waking up! Well at least one is but that is still exciting!

04.02.2026 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The dots continue!

31.01.2026 09:18 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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These are just such cute flowers! Lomandra suaveolens is a widespread local species to Perth and the southwest, and due to this flowering strategy probably many would never notice them! This may eventually be host to Cassytha glabella but for now I can enjoy these blooms!

28.01.2026 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Another new one in my care been a while since I kept triggerplants! Stylidium caespitosum

26.01.2026 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dots dots and more dots!

26.01.2026 06:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Aha damn blue sky not bringing and edit post function πŸ˜‚ I forgot the U πŸ˜…

26.01.2026 06:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Also potted up my Phias australis!! They growing so vigorously atm!

26.01.2026 05:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The increase in suns added a patch of colour maybe the new traps will colour up! Here’s hoping 😍

26.01.2026 05:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Come dot along with me! I got a while to go πŸ˜…

26.01.2026 04:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Im going to be dreaming in dots!

26.01.2026 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Line work! My plant wasn’t growing the usual round leaves I wonder if it’s the artificial lights or the hybrid trait πŸ€” but coming along nicely!

26.01.2026 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The transfer begins!

25.01.2026 03:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is an odd bird…

Spotted this large mud dauber wasp takin a drink from the bird bath!

25.01.2026 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Best flowering of my #Restrepia trichoglossa! Always in bloom 😍

25.01.2026 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0