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Copper beard orchid (Calochilus campestris) near Mallacoota, VIC. Generally features some of the neatest facial hair of the local beard orchid species in East Gippsland. #Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #EastGippsland

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Marsh sun orchid (Thelymitra longiloba) in Croajingolong NP, East Gippsland, VIC. This plant has slightly wider petals and sepals than more typical 'star-like' flowering forms. Only found the one still out at this location where it can be easy to miss this species when they flower amongst a range of similar blue sun orchids. #Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #EastGippsland #SunOrchids #Thelymitra

A teaspoon of tan powder, warm water, a fork, thirty seconds of whisking — and it goes silky, the way bark must feel to the tree in a long rain. Slippery elm (Ulmus rubra). The inner bark's mucilage, long chains of sugars like galactose and rhamnose, swells and coats a raw throat or a sour stomach. The FDA allows it in lozenges. Beyond that, the human evidence is thin and mostly traditional. Take it two hours apart from any medicine, since it can slow absorption. Skip it in pregnancy. Buy cultivated bark. It has no Gaelic name of its own. Leamhan is the Highland elm, its cousin across the water. What do you reach for when your throat goes raw? Today's full Gathering: https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-33-percent-limbo-night-keeps-shimmying-its-shitty-way-down-queer-press-survives-but-barely-we-ne #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #SlipperyElm #Herbs #HerbalTea #PlantMedicine #Botany #Trees #Autumn #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Nature #Photography #Wellness

Devil's walking stick — Aralia spinosa — the thorny tree crowding every Southern fencerow, armed head to foot with spines that dare you close. The young spring shoots, cooked all the way through, have fed these hills for generations. Kin to ginseng and sarsaparilla. #Herbalism #Foraging #FolkMedicine #WildFood #Botany #Nature #Plants #EarthBased #Druid #Herbs #Appalachia #Community

We have had a decent crop of Venus Flytraps this year. #plants #carnivorousplants #SavageGarden #botany #nature #naturephotography #biodiversity #photography #biology #ecology #venusflytrap

"Rabbit Ears" is one of the most common sun orchids around Anglesea (VIC), and is now appearing in bloom. The flowers are about 25mm (~1") wide. These flowers feel much more gentle and composed than some of the downright garish spider orchids. #Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #Anglesea #WildFlowers #Thelymitra #SunOrchid

Prairie is among the most destroyed habitats on this continent, and this is one of its markers. Everything you can see of it is built to be burned off. The taproot goes fifteen feet down into ground nobody has broken since before there was a state there. Some live close to a century. What's the one you'd put in the ground knowing you won't see it finished? #BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism #Druid #Folklore #Botany #Solarpunk 2/3

Spotted sun orchid (Thelymitra ixioides) near Hyam's Beach, NSW - another coastal location where most of the flowers have no spots. Flowering had already pretty much finished here in mid-September with only a handful of plants still out. #Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #JervisBay #SunOrchids #Thelymitra

Grevillea macleayana flowering in coastal heathland near Ulladulla, NSW. These coastal plants (sometimes referred to as the 'Racecourse Creek' form) with mostly entire, elliptic leaves and a semi-prostrate habit when young offer a lot as garden plants but I'm not sure when I last saw one available in a nursery or native plant sale. G. macleayana was elevated to a species (from G. barklyana ssp. macleayana) in 1994. In 2022 two more species were separated from G. macleayana - G. gilmourii (previously known as the Deua form') and G. milleriana (from one plant!) Unfortunately the only Grevillea I regularly see for sale along the south coast from this set of species is a 'Grevillea barklyana' which is actually a hybrid with finely toothed leaves. If I ever track down a stock plant of the coastal Racecourse Creek form I'm going to try a few cuttings - can think of several coastal gardens I work on that these would look great in! #Grevilleas #Proteaceae #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Bloomscrolling

Time for another lovely orchid from Anglesea (VIC); this one from yesterday after a couple of warm, windy days. This is a Hare Orchid - Leptoceras menziesii - the first I've seen. Flowers are quite small at 15-20mm (1/2 to 3/4"). #Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #Anglesea #WildFlowers #Leptoceras

The drought stopped most of the Fox And Cubs plants in my front yard from flowering, which was very disappointing. This one brave soul has decided to give it a go now there's been rain - one flower on Friday, then 3 new ones today. Such beautiful flowers. #Swindon #Wiltshire #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

Sunlight is not the plant’s food, rather it is the energy source the plant uses for manufacturing sugars from smaller molecules… Perhaps one could say that sunlight is the fire the plant cooks with! #plants #biology #botany

Caladenia hillmanii (purple-heart fingers) in open forest at Jervis Bay, NSW. Some variation in flower size, shape and colour at this location with some plants not having the distinctive maroon labellum side-lobes this species is known for. Generally regarded as a coastal species growing at altitudes of 0-200m but I've seen almost identical variations on a population of Caladenias in Monga NP at 700m altitude. #Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #JervisBay #Caladenia #BloomScrolling #WildFlowers

Helianthus annuus cv, sunflower #garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

Two handfuls of lemon balm, bruised between your palms until the room smells like lemon and cut grass. Just-off-boil water, ten minutes, lid on. The lid is not a suggestion — the whole medicine is volatile and it will walk out through an open cup while you check your phone. In Gaelic the melissas fall under lus an eòin in some regions, though the naming wanders by glen. Drink it warm in the late afternoon, when the day's adrenaline starts eating its own tail. This is the plant for the nerve that keeps firing after the danger has passed — the one that has you rehearsing an argument at four in the morning with somebody who is asleep and doesn't know you're fighting. What do you reach for when your body won't stand down? Today's issue: https://thistleandmoss.com/p/rot-at-the-top-ice-at-the-bottom-and-kids-left-holding-the-fucking-bag?utm_source=PixelFed&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica #Herbalism #HerbalMedicine #LemonBalm #MelissaOfficinalis #Herbs #FoodAsMedicine #Apothecary #Tea #PlantsOfMastodon #BloomScrolling #Botany #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Photography

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If you ask for photos of #SeedHeads for #WildflowerHour then you're clearly going to get lots of Wild Carrot. If there's a better seed head among the UK species list I've not seen it. #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

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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