Just when I thought I knew the parts of a flower, glumes and lemma and lodicules come along.
don’t be glumey
Tag: let’s botanize
cotyledons
Funny the things one recalls from youth. I remember learning about monocotyledons and dicotyledons, and just loving those words. I was probably insufferable, informing disinterested people about the difference. (Grasses are monocots, having only a single cotyledon). See, I’m still doing it. 😂
Quercus
I joined with the Ellwood Friends Nature Journal Club at the Goleta Butterfly Grove, one of the most significant monarch butterfly overwintering sites in California (must go back in winter to see them!). I was happy to find a coast live oak laden with baby acorns, as it seems that this species is having another lean crop year.
hello petal
symmetry
This prompt got me looking closely at a lot of flowers!
teensy and huge
ribbon and nest
In a shaded corner of our garden, I’ve tucked a gathering of diverse ferns and nestled the shiitake log among them (still no mushrooms, but it’s only been four months.)
Bulbine frutescens
I’m learning a lot from Let’s Botanize. This week: RAM and SAM.
hairy armpits
berry interesting
I think I already knew that tomatoes were berries. But avocados? Apparently so!
In botany, a berry is a fleshy fruit produced from a single flower containing one ovary. Under that definition, bananas, cucumbers, and eggplants are also berries.
But many of the fruit we commonly called berries, e.g. raspberries and blackberries, are not. They are aggregate or compound fruits containing seeds from different ovaries of a single flower, with the individual “fruitlets” joined at maturity to form the complete fruit.
Berrrrrrrry interesting.
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