Autorobotany (◡‿◡✿)
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Golden Barrels (by flora-file)
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List of Aquatic Vegetables/Edibles
Sadly I don’t have any experience with Aquatic Vegetables =( …. HOWEVER, I am capable of giving you a...
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Our crab apple tree in bloom
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My brugmansia bloomed!!!!
Grass is the common name for the Gramineae family of plants. With more than 9,000 known species, this family is one of the largest on Earth.
Grass is extremely important to most people’s lives, whether they know it or not. For one thing, grass is a major food source all over the world. Rice, corn and oats come from grass plants, for example, and most livestock animals feed primarily on grasses. In some parts of the world, people use grass plants in construction (bamboo is a grass, for example), and wherever it grows, grass plays a vital role in curbing erosion. Grass is also used to make sugar, liquor, bread and plastics, among many other things.
Grasses have a very simple structure, and a very simple way of life. Keep reading to learn lots more, including how to get the stuff to actually grow in your lawn….
Peloric foxglove flowers. Peloria is the name given to a morphological aberration in which a plant produces actinomorphic (radially-symmetric) flowers instead of zygomorphic (bilaterally-symmetric) flowers. This is often caused by spontaneous mutation of the CYCLOIDEA gene, which controls floral symmetry.
My brugmansia bloomed!!!!
Itty bitty Swedish Ivy blooms! How precious.
(via curiousbotanicals)
Pinguicula laueana CP2
This young plant was raised from a leaf cutting at the end of last year and had sat still all winter. It has started showing signs of active growth after being transferred to a coarse, free draining compost.Will try to get the typical form of this species, with the brick-red flowers (this form has cerise purple flowers).
Dicentra spectabilis ‘Gold Heart’
