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Tag: let’s botanize
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.
you’re so vein
I just bought this cool book, Let’s Botanize by Ben Goulet-Scott and Jacob S. Suissa. 101 Ways to Connect with Plants? Yes please! The very first prompt has me jonesing for a microscope.
In working on this page, I learned the botanist’s terms for the upper- and under-side of a leaf. Adaxial and abaxial. How to remember which is which? Abaxial includes B for Bottom.
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