Tootfinder

@totientfunction@mathstodon.xyz
2026-07-26 12:16:46

I wandered around the botanical garden in Kraków for 3 hours last Friday, and the plants there were amazing 💚! While writing the alt texts, I learned that one of the plants is a "red hot cat tail" ❤️ and one is a kind of "foxtail fern" 🧡.
#flowers #plants

A red hot cat tail (acalypha hispida), with many long, pinkish-red bushy flowers hanging down. The plant also has big green leaves.

A zebra plant (goeppertia zebrina), with many striped leaves, that are very bright light green striped with very dark green sections in between, creating a beautiful contrast.

Pretty pink water lilies in dark brown water. The lily pads in different sizes are partially covering each other. In the middle is a nicely visible flower with multiple layers of pink petals surrounding the orange stamens. There are a few more (partially) visible flowers in the upper right.

A foxtail fern (asparagus densiflorus Meyerii), with many long, bushy, light green "tails" meandering outwards in all directions.

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-09-27 18:00:59

"In 1879 a scientist buried bottles filled with seeds. Every 20 years, one is dug up and studied."
#Seeds #Plants

In 1879 a scientist buried bottles filled with seeds. Every 20 years, one is dug up and studied.
A botanist buried 20 bottles of seeds in 1879 to test how long they'd survive, and the experiment is still running today.

@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks
2026-07-31 18:50:57

Female reproductive structure on a common liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha). I'm hoping the area has a male because I'd very much like to see the yellow sporangia form. The end product looks very much like a mayapple. #liverworts #plants #botany #macrophotography

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-08-01 11:00:05

"Hotter summers may force RHS to move hydrangeas to north of England"
#England #Plants #Climate #ClimateChange

Hotter summers may force RHS to move hydrangeas to north of England
Exclusive: British garden staple becomes plant most frequently reported as suffering in heat, charity reports

@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza
2026-09-12 11:28:59

Love In A Mist, growing from someone's grave.
#plants #seeds

a 'love in a mist' plant gone to seed, it has an alien looking seed pod in a nest of thin spikeyness. the plant is sort of silhouetted against an overcast sky. church roof in bottom of the frame and the tower to the right of the plants. its from yesterday.... same church as yesterday.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-07-29 01:02:22

Flowers of the Bottlebrush Buckeye
#photo #photography #flowers #plants

Strange white flowers with lots of fibers are in the center right on a stem with blurry leaves behind

@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2026-07-08 12:49:03

4 out of 5 of the surviving Lupin #plants have flowered; one of them with multiple flower stalks. When I try this again I'll just make sure to plant the seeds in deep pots initially so their roots are happier and don't need transplanting.

A tall lupin flower is seen with it's reflection in a mirror. It's got lots of small red/purple flowers along a green stem and some unopened green bits at the top. Below it's got a bunch of green split leaves. The mirror has a faux-gilt frame.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-07-14 01:42:56

City people think Honeysuckle makes pretty red berries you see in the margin; Good 'ole Boys know it takes over when you quit mowing; people who know their plants know it is a European invader!
#photo #photography

10 round red berries on a coarse stem with kinda delicate green leaves i turned the saturation down on to spare your eyes

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-08-06 18:00:58

"100 Animals and Plants Just Got Some Much Needed Help"
#Animals #Plants
https://www.

Phoenix Species Project Announces Funds for Imperiled Wildlife
A new fund called the Phoenix Species Project will provide $200 million to help pull imperiled wildlife back from the brink of extinction.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-07-28 11:54:25

Foliage of a bush-type ginkgo
#photo #photography #plants #horticulture

Lucious green leaves distinctly shaped like ginkgo

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-07-09 11:38:18

Purpletop Vervain (𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑎 𝑏𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠) in a garden on the side of the Entomology Building
#photo #photography #plants

Two clusters of tiny pink flowers stacked on top of each other on a trifurcated stem with a pale blurry flower in the background, indistinct green and black blobs far away and a few spots of purple in the background

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-09-03 17:00:23

"‘Lost’ for 170 years, rare plant recorded in Sri Lanka"
#SriLanka #Plants #Environment

'Lost' for 170 years, rare plant recorded in Sri Lanka
Researchers have found a population of an extremely rare plant species, last recorded in Sri Lanka in 1855, growing in a lowland forest fragment along the Sitawaka Ganga River. Documenting the finding in a recent study, researchers write that the plant, Indianthus virgatus, while officially listed as critically endangered in Sri Lanka, was presumed possibly […]

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-08-02 19:00:57

"Rare palm tree rediscovered in Madagascar after nearly 100 years"
#Madagascar #Trees #Plants

Rare palm tree rediscovered in Madagascar after nearly 100 years
Researchers have tracked down 28 individuals of a palm tree species last recorded in Madagascar nearly 100 years ago. Nearly every tree of the species, Ravenea latisecta, was found within four protected areas in the Andasibe-Mantadia region of Madagascar, according to a recent study. “Andasibe–Mantadia is one of Madagascar’s best-explored botanical regions, and Ravenea latisecta […]

@enriquericos@mastoart.social
2026-08-09 22:10:04

I want to announce that I've successfully cloned a plant.
(It's nothing special, I've done it since I was a child, but every single time I feel like I just did a mad science)
#garden #plants

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-07-02 17:27:33

Just past Litha (Summer Solstice) I am seeing 𝐸𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑎 (a.k.a. Purple Coneflower) everywhere
#photo #photography #plants

A single purple flower is near the exact center with flowers faded or about the open below it and blurry patches of light, dark and green behind

@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks
2026-07-17 16:55:15

Common liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) growing on the shady side of my house. The little cups are filled with wafer-shaped asexual buds called gemmae that get dispersed by rain droplets. The thallus is currently sending up reproductive structures so stay tuned for gender reveal (species is dioecious). #liverworts #plants #botany #nature #moss