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66125.01 Berberis thunbergii, Ginko biloba #Berberisthunbergii #Berberis #barberry #fruit #seed #Ginkgobiloba #Ginkgo #leafpetiole #petiole #leafstem #lines #pattern
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
leighgoodwin.bsky.social
It is, indeed, a pretty good world.
In part, thanks to you & Kevin.
🏵🌿

#art Canyon Towhee:
Suren Nersisyan
pretty little red headed red bellied bird, perched on green leafstem — painted in water though you're of the desert
January 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
jubblator.bsky.social
Kinda cool detail i noticed, i think, is it growin into that dead leafstem on the left (from its trunk)?
October 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
crusoe-owo.bsky.social
Haha, I keep accidentally making mistakes in these drawings! Don't think that leafstem is supposed to go there...

Do like how it looks like he's shieldinf the other Mudkip.

(No. 4 Mudkip)

#ACEO #pokémon
February 1, 2026 at 9:53 PM
toxicoradica.northsky.social
🏵️ orange jewelweed 🌿
Impatiens capensis

#nativeplants #ecoregion71
a photo of the top of an orange jewelweed with its main stem and uppermost leaves in the top right corner. the leaves grow alternate on the stem, but right at the top the nodes are close together, and the leaves are smaller than those lower down. one of the leaves extends across the photo to the lower left corner. along its margin are around half a dozen shallow, blunt teeth. a thin flowerstem grows from this leaf's axil, at its tip holding a suspended conical orange flower, with its mouth facing to the left and its tapering tail on the right. the back of the cone features a curly nectar spur that bends itself around into a loop. this flower has 3 sepals and 5 petals. two thin, pale sepals (one on either side) sit on top of the cone where it meets the flowerstem. the third sepal is petalloid and forms the whole conical back end of the flower, colored yellowish orange with darker reddish orange spots. the top petal is at the top of the mouth of the flower, curved and angled up like a lifted car hood. two small lateral petals hang down just below the top petal. the two bottom petals are much larger and angle out to the sides along the bottom of the flower's mouth; they are orange and densely speckled with reddish orange spots. looking directly into the mouth of the same orange jewelweed flower, partially resting on the green leaf from whose axil it grows. a hood-like orange petal with red spots sits at the top of the flower's mouth. two small pale orange sepals peek out from behind it, one on each side. the third sepal, a long cone extending back behind the rest of the flower & terminating in a looping nectar spur, is sorta out of focus here though we can see red-orange spots on its otherwise yellow-orange inner surface. two small lateral petals are held to the sides of the mouth of the flower, mostly invisible from this angle. the two large bottom petals are round and mostly flat, one on either side of the bottom of the flower'a mouth. they are yellow-orange with small but dense red-orange spots. suspended from the top of the flower's throat like a uvula are the stamens and pistil. the pale yellow stamens curve around and over the pistil like a cage; they seem to merge at their powdery white anthers. the thin, light green pistil can be seen between two of the stamen filaments. a small orange jewelweed probably only ankle-high growing in wet chert gravel next to an unseen creek. this individual only has half a dozen leaves, but it stands in the company of other young jewelweeds. the leaves grow alternate on long leafstem; their color shifts between lighter and darker shades of green. their margins have a few large but shallow and blunt teeth. one orange flower is in blooming, growing from a leaf axil & partially resting upon its leaf. it has five petals arranged around the open end of a cone-shaped modified sepal which extends back behind the flower into a curling nectar spur. the flower is mostly yellow-orange, but it has many spots both large and small of red-orange.
July 13, 2026 at 1:22 AM
toxicoradica.northsky.social
🌻 maryland senna 🌿
Senna marilandica

#nativeplants #ecoregion71
looking into the face of a flower with five bright yellow petals, three in a row on the top and two on the bottom; they are widest near their rounded tips but narrow drastically to a thin base. the flower's five light yellowish green sepals are mostly hidden behind the petals. the flower has ten stamens separated into three groups. the upper row of three are short and flattened, showing mostly their yellow filaments that are chocolate brown just around the edges. the middle group of four sit in two rows of two in the center of the flower; they have short yellow filaments and long, thick, chocolate brown anthers with a crease running down the side. the final group of three stamens hang down on long yellow filaments. the lateral two have thick chocolate brown anthers like those in the middle group, but those here on the bottom have an upward curve to them. the middle stamen on the bottom is similar but smaller to those flanking it. a light green style hooks down from the center of the flower and sits in the middle of the bottom row of stamens between the middle stamen and the lateral stamen on the right. photo from a bit further back and from a different angle, with the flower facing mostly to the lower right. there are two other blooming flowers in the background, facing away. the flowers have five light yellowish green sepals of unequal size, as well as five bright yellow obovate petals (which are only really evident on the flower on the right). in the center of that flower there are ten unequal stamens and on light green style: an upper row of three reduced stamens; two rows of two stamens in the middle with short yellow filaments and long chocolate brown anthers; and a bottom row with long, hanging yellow filaments, large brown filaments on outside two stamens, and a smaller anther on the middle stamen. the style sits next to the smaller middle stamen. lower in the photo, there are developing seedpods from earlier flowers. in the middle of the photo, just below the flower on the right, there is a short, truncated leafstem; it looks like there may be leafbuds at its tip? anyway, at the base of the stem on the top side there is a little round extra-floral nectary which often attracts ants. all the leafstems have those little nectar glands at their base. maryland senna growing in short grass in a patch of shade provided by a thin cluster of trees at the edge of a grassland. low on the plant's unbranching main stem there are alternate compound leaves, even-pinnate with green, oval leaflets. a close loom will reveal small round glands, extra-floral nectaries, along the top side of each leafstem near its base. image compression may wind up making these impossible to see i suppose. higher up, there are long, curving green seedpods with rectangular segments. at the very top, there are a few bright yellow flowers.
August 18, 2026 at 2:00 AM
toxicoradica.northsky.social
🌻 partridge pea 🌿
Chamaecrista fasciculata

#nativeplants #ecoregion71
a partridge pea flower facing forward. it has five bright yellow round petals that narrow drastically at the base, where they have small patches of red. the petals are inequal in size and posture: three petals on top run forward nearly laying flat, overlapping at their sides & forming a roof over the rest of the flower; the bottom petal is largest & hangs straight down; the fifth petal is low but off to the right, cupping up and in front of the stamens. i call this one the shy petal because it reminds me of someone holding their hand in front of their mouth to hide a smile. there is a cluster of thick maroon stamens dusted yellow from pollen standing in the center of the flower. a long yellow style hooks around them to the lower left. two blooming partridge pea flowers growing from leaf axils. the parts of the leaves that are visible reveal them to be alternate, even-pinnate compound leafs with small oval green leaflets with branching veins. the flowers have five bright yellow petals, three forming a roof over the stamens, one cupped around and in front of the stamens, and the fifth & largest hanging down below the stamens. the flower on the left has a left-handed shy petal; the flower on the right is right-handed. both flowers have a cluster of thick maroon stamens in the center, and a long, hooked, yellow style. a knee-high partridge pea growing among tall grass and bush-clover in a savanna. its light green stem seems to zigzag slightly between its alternate leaves. the leaves are even-pinnate and compound, with small green oval leaflets and a spike-like stipule at the base of its leafstem. flowers grow from leaf axils, sometimes with several flowers sharing an axil (though only one of them will boom at a time). most of the flowers on this plant are still long, pointed, yellow-green buds, but two on the right have bloomed. can't see much about them here other than that they each have five bright yellow petals.
August 25, 2026 at 12:58 AM
toxicoradica.northsky.social
🌸 mouse bean 🌿
Amphicarpaea bracteata

#nativeplants #ecoregion71
a cluster of legume-type flowers, three visible and one obscured (and a fifth half out of frame on the left) at the end of a horizontal stem running in from the left. they have deep tubular white calyces which end in pointed lobes. the petals emerge from the calyx wrapped into a tube. the upper petal (the banner) peels away from the rest, its lateral edges rolled up. most of the banner is white but it turns purple by the tip. two white wing petals are held straight forward below the banner, and the two white keel petals are positioned similarly beneath them. the same cluster of four flowers but rolled over onto the underside of a flipped up light green leaflet with a pattern of branching veins raised from its surface. the flowers have tubular white calyces with pointed lobes, light purple banner petals with rolled back lateral edges, white wing petals, and white keel petals. the wings form an upper hood over the keels, which true to their name resemble the keel of a boat, curving upwards at the tip and keeping tightly together. mouse bean twining through neighboring plants low to the ground. this vine has trifoliate green leaves. the two lateral leaflets are egg-shaped but asymmetric--the side of the leaflet nearest the terminal leaflet is thinner than the far side--though they do mirror each other. the terminal leaflet has a markedly longer leafstem than the other two, is symmetrical, widest below the middle & narrows to an acute tip. a raceme of flowers grows from the axil of a leaf near the middle of the photo. the flowers are white and light purple, growing out of tubular white calyces.
August 30, 2026 at 2:06 AM
snototter.bsky.social
Wasp and aphid galls!! Spongy oak apple wasp, wood sower wasp, gouty oak wasp, and hickory leafstem phylloxera
Amphibolips confluenta Callirhytis seminator Callirhytis quercuspunctata Phylloxera caryaeglobuli
April 25, 2026 at 6:23 PM