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Lignoscripta atroalba

The forest has many eyes . . . and they are always watching . . . JK, these aren't eyes, they're fruiting bodies that release sexual spores. So really the forest is full of structures for sex and reproduction. I will let you decide which is more creepy.

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Im so tired....

NASA’s Second Pepper Harvest Sets Record on Space Station

The longest – and perhaps the spiciest – plant experiment in the history of the International Space Station, Plant Habitat-04 (PH-04), concluded recently, 137 days after it began. On Nov. 26, Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei harvested and with other members of the crew sampled some of the 26 chile peppers grown from four plants in the orbiting laboratory’s Advanced Plant Habitat (APH), with PH-04 also breaking the record for feeding the most astronauts from a crop grown in space.

“PH-04 pushed the state-of-the-art in space crop production significantly,” said Matt Romeyn, principal investigator for PH-04 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. “With this experiment, we took a field cultivar of a Hatch chile pepper from New Mexico, dwarfed it to fit inside the plant habitat, and figured out how to productively grow the first generally recognized fruiting crop in space – all in a span of a couple years.”

Van Tubergen’s Winter Aconite (Eranthis Tubergenii) by M. E. Eaton.

Taken from ‘Addisonia’ (Vol 16) by New York Botanical Garden.

Published 1916-1964.

New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library.

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Watching lots of videos about grafting plants, and am now seriously considering grafting one ficus onto another …. For science

Morning Glory, Cozumel, MX

Rosa moschata Herrm. Fam: Rosaceae

A wild vileplume appeared!

2021.11.29

1.12.21 — wednesday

i rewrote some notes and made a moss garden today to destress. one of my professors said we must visualise our troubling thoughts as clouds and pay no mind to them, for they endlessly flitter across the sky with little effect on our lives. i needed this bit of advice; worries and doubts have a suffocating hold on me, and it’s stormy weather tonight.

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Hellleborus niger (Christmas Rose) taken from ‘Atlas des Plantes de France’ (1891) by Amédée Masclef.

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Christmas rose (Helleborus niger) illustration from Medical Botany (1836) by John Stephenson and James Morss Churchill.

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