Sunday, December 29, 2024

Chinese Landscape Painters Painted What They Saw, repost

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Repost from 2013 Huang Shan , Yellow Mountain, China Books on art history tell me that landscape painting as a distinctive style first appea...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Small Soapweed, Yucca glauca, repost

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Here is another repost from 2013: Small Soapweed, Yucca glauca Yucca glauca  in flower      Standing like candles in the prairie, flowering ...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Why do Botanists Always Tell You the Plant Family? repost

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Repost from 2013: Why Botanists Always Tell You the Plant Family choke cherries, rose family, Rosaceae People writing about plants are forev...
Sunday, December 8, 2024

Not Always Just Plain Vanilla, repost

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I am taking a break this month, reposting previously published blogs. This one is from February 2013, the first month of this blog. And, I ...
Monday, December 2, 2024

Butterfly Pollination, A Quick Overview

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Long ago, when plants began exploiting animals to carry pollen between flowers, they encountered butterflies. Butterfly adults fed mainly on...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

We Called it Ditch Weed and Left it Alone (Cannabis sativa)

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The   New York Times  (11/20/24) reported funding of research on whether cannabis extracts can effectively treat post-traumatic stress disor...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Teasel, Dipsacus fullonum, Once an Important Tool

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Teasels, Dipsacus fullonum and Dipsacus sativus ,  in the teasel family, Dipsacaceae, for centuries were essential to the clothing industr...