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Anemone Nemorosa @SensitiveSyl@beige.party · 3d ago
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Joe Pye weed (Eutrochium maculatum) But who is Joe Pye? It seems to be the anglophone name of a very interesting Mohican, Joseph Shauquethqueat, living at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, in Massachusetts and New York. Not clear he had anything to do with the plant, maybe only by association. A scholarly article about botany, history and First Nations, with Latin names and a critical eye. Perfect 🤓 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/joe-pye-joe-pyes-law-and-joe-pye-weed-the-history.pdf?c=mbot;idno=0497763.0056.303;format=pdf #flowers #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #wildflowers #botany #history #firstnations #photography
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Megan Lynch (she/her) @ml@ecoevo.social · Aug 03, 2026
How Prairie Fires Restore Water to Soil & Why Prairies Need to Burn "In this hour-long interview, Gerry Wilhelm, one of the 2 authors of the massive tome *Flora of the Chicago Region*, gives us insight into how fire is essential to prairie ecosystems - and many ecosystems around the globe." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDVcfSYcxc0 #Botany #Ecology #Illinois #NativePlants
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Bomengidsnl @bomengidsnl@mastodon.green · Jul 30, 2026
Bomengidsnl boomsoort van de dag is: Witte esdoorn (Acer sacharinum), blad-leaf-blatt-feuille-hoja https://www.bomengids.nl/l/sp/22.html posted by #bomengidsnlbot #trees #botany #nature Welcome to Eu treeguide Bienvenido a guia #arbol europea Willkommen bei European #Baum Guide Bienvenue dans le guide des #arbres européen bomengids.nl https://www.bomengids.nl
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Scientific American @scientific_american@robot.villas · Jul 29, 2026
Avocado flowers switch sex daily--now we know why https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/avocado-flowers-switch-sex-daily-now-we-know-why/ #Science #Biology #Botany
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Patrick.sh @psh@infosec.exchange · Jul 29, 2026
I find inaturalist maps pretty fascinating. I'll be viewing a botanist profiles, viewing mapped observations, and learn something new on a regular basis. For instance, I've been seeing this evergreen Monkey-Puzzle tree around on random occasions (once you see it once its hard not to see it), as people plant them for landscaping additions in the pnw, and realized its a wild presence is now endangered in Chile and Argentina...which is a major downer...but still interesting nonetheless. Such a fascinating species. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/126404-Araucaria-araucana #inaturalist #botany #trees #endangered #Argentina #Chile
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Richard A. Lent @richard_a_lent@ecoevo.social · Jul 27, 2026
More Round-leaved Sundews, Drosera rotundifolia. Studies have shown that extracts of this plant have strong anti-inflammatory properties. This and other species of temperate carnivorous plants stop growing during the winter and enter a period of dormancy until the following spring, when they resume growth. #carnivorousplants #biodiversity #biology #nature #plants #botany #SavageGarden
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clew @clew@ecoevo.social · Jul 28, 2026
I’m looking for a reference work on collecting small seeds. How early you can pick pods that shatter easily, tricks for containing seeds that you can’t pick pre shatter, how much a species? genus? is prone to inbreeding depression. book or Extension publication, preferably. My current best is _Creative Propagation_, Thompson. #gardening #botany #MarketGarden
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ThreeDollarBill @3DBill@mstdn.ca · Jul 28, 2026
#Tigridia pavonia #garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
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Wendy @wendythedruid@thistleandmoss.org · Jul 26, 2026
Saxifrage. The little rock-breaker — lus nan cluas in some of the old tongues, its name straight from the Latin for stone-breaker, because it roots in the cracks of granite and holds. Tear the young leaves small into a bowl of warm broth. No boiling — that cooks the life right out of it. Cool water, torn leaves, a few minutes in the warm bowl. That bright green astringency is medicine for a throat the smoke and the crying roughed up. Something that lives in stone, teaching the throat to hold. That's the season on the plate. What do you reach for when your throat's had a week? Full issue → https://twp.ai/4ht7YJ #Herbalism #Saxifrage #FolkMedicine #WildFood #Foraging #Herbs #FoodAsMedicine #Plants #Botany #Gaelic #Nature #Apothecary
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ThreeDollarBill @3DBill@mstdn.ca · Jul 26, 2026
#Brassavola nodosa 'Panama Soiree' #orchid #garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net · Jul 26, 2026
I am not a #botany expert. But I may have one amongst my friends and followers here. Two questions. What kind of pear is growing in my parents garden? I have never seen such dark coloured ones. Second question: what’s wrong with the old plum tree? Is it some bacterial or fungal thing and what can be done? This is in Germany, in case that helps to narrow it down.
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Luke Harby @lukeharby@infosec.exchange · Jul 26, 2026
Hey #FediVerse I have a #Botany question. This shrub is just up the road from me, I pass it on my dogwalk. I think there are two species along the row, one of them seems to be almost entirely covered in webbing or what look like cobwebs. The webbing appears to be only on the more browned parts of the plant. I've lived here almost 30 years and don't recall seeing this phenomenon. Or at least I think I don't. Anyone know what this might be? My guess was that it's some form of protection for the plant against something. And also if there is a specific hashtag to use let me know. #Plants #Botany #PlantHelp #BotanyHelp
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LindenShieldARTs 🏳️‍🌈 @lindenshieldarts@mastodon.social · Jul 25, 2026
A little peek at a WIP~ ✨ Do you recognize the real plant this fictional variety is based on? 💗 #TraditionalArt #Painting #FantasyArt #MastoArt #Bloomscrolling #Botany
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jcrabapple @jcrabapple@dmv.community · Jul 23, 2026
🧠 The humble moss growing on your walls and sidewalks produces complex electrical waves that look startlingly like neural activity. Scientists recorded fast spikes, rhythmic fluctuations, and slow depolarization waves traveling through moss cushions — signals that resemble action potentials and neuron-like spike trains normally associated with brains. A computer scientist spent 178 hours monitoring common rough-stalked feather moss (Brachythecium rutabulum) and found that moss cushions behave as interconnected excitable systems, coordinating signals across space and time. The researcher proposes that moss could serve as a living substrate for biohybrid sensors and unconventional computing. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.252341 #Science #Botany #NeuralNetworks #Mosstodon
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Megan Lynch (she/her) @ml@ecoevo.social · Jul 22, 2026
Q: There are a number of sites that purport to list upcoming scientific conferences, but I assume most are in it for profit of one sort or another and are of varying mid - low quality. Can any scientists (esp in #Botany, #Ecology, #PlantScience, #Biology) recommend a site they use to keep abreast of upcoming conferences, seminars, and workshops they might otherwise miss notice of? #AskFed #Science #AcademicChatter
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ContraindiKate @ContraindiKate@zeroes.ca · Jul 22, 2026
Friends, I wonder if you might be able to help this chestnut sapling. I put a chestnut in the fridge over the winter, and planted it in a pot on my balcony February. The first week of April, it showed a shoot above the ground. It was growing fast, so we gave it a much bigger pot (about 40 cm deep) with fresh soil in May. It has received good organic compost tea every 3 weeks or so. About a month ago, it suddenly went from a very healthy sapling to having these yellow spots on the leaves. We sprayed it thoroughly with safer's soap, but the spots have continued to grow. We wondered if it was getting too much sun, so we moved it to partial/dappled shade, no change. We've tried watering it less, and also watering it more, no change. The problem started just before the really bad heat wave here in Austria, so I don’t think it’s connected to the heat, but I could be wrong. Any tips for keeping it alive? #trees #botany #garden #gardening #fungus #insects
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Mrs K Husky @khusky@shmg.online · Jul 19, 2026
Lilium pyrenaicum (Yellow Turk's Cap Lily) #SilentSunday #Flora #Spain #Nature #Photography #Botany #BloomScrolling #Pyrenees #WildFlowers #Flowers
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