#fruiting body

[wikipediapictures]

Ramaria araiospora

“A fruitbody of the coral fungus Ramaria araiospora Marr & D.E. Stuntz. Photographed in Jackson Demonstration State Forest, Mendocino Co., California, USA.” - via Wikimedia Commons

[unadulteratedtyphoonmaker]

Mushroomed:

First Panel: After a rain mushrooms appear on the surface of the earth as if from nowhere (The underside of a mushroom cap, as well as part of its stalk is drawn with great detail in a black and white sketch.)

Second Panel: Many do so from a vast underground fungus that remains invisible and unknown (Numerous mushrooms are drawn with great detail in a black and white sketch.)

Third Panel: What we call mushrooms, mycologists call the fruiting body of the larger less visible fungus (Mushrooms and their roots are drawn with a line showing the divid of above and below ground, in a minimally detailed, black and white sketch.)

Fourth Panel: (Uprisings and revolutions are often considered to be spontaneous) (A scene with numerous mushrooms growing out of the grass is displayed. There are two trees with thick, textured bark, one to the left and one to the middle of the picture. The tree in the middle has mushrooms growing out of its bark.)

CEL

from Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit

[bramblemouth]

cantharellus subalbidus, the white chanterelle! found in old growth doug fir forest in early october

[l-747]

Fruity 🍉

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: The university cafeteria at our school...

Cnetizens: Cafeteria dishes from our colleges are darker (Chinese university cafeterias have this bizarre obsession with stir-frying meat with random fruits. You'd never see these dishes in proper restaurants or home cooking)

[bennetsbonnet]

I know I turned this scene into a joke about how gorgeous Colin Firth is... but the pineapple that lurks in the background of the Netherfield ball when Mr Collins is yapping to Mr Darcy is such a subtle detail that I really appreciate!

The wealthy at this time in Britain were a little bit obsessed with pineapples. Depictions of them featured as decoration in country homes, in political cartoons, paintings and crockery (warning: Margaret Thatcher jumpscare🥴 but you can read more about that here and here).

But to have an actual pineapple on display during a large social gathering such as a ball? That was really showing off.

Especially when you consider it cost £150 (or approx. £28,000 today) to buy the initial plant, build a hothouse to grow them in and run it... with no guarantees they'd grow given the climate was not exactly suited for growing pineapples! It was a huge risk.

All this meant that pineapples were so scarce that they became incredibly sought after. Naturally, rich people did silly rich people things to acquire them and show them off... perhaps they were the NFTs of their day?

A single pineapple was valued at £60 (approx. £11,000 today). Given the cost and effort of acquiring one, you'd think people would be keen to tuck in and sample this exotic fruit? Nope. Pineapples were not eaten! Of course not! They were displayed on plates surrounded by other less prestigious fruit during dinner parties and other social occasions, usually until they rotted. They could be rented for special occasions too. Such was their value that naturally they became the target of thieves and some pineapples even had their own security guards!

In the end, colonialism (because all British history eventually returns to that) meant that pineapples could be imported cheaply and their status was devalued when the working classes could afford to buy them.

But next time you watch Pride and Prejudice (1995), pay attention the scenes in the dining room at the Netherfield ball and look out for the pineapple... which is the second prickliest thing in shot (behind Mr Darcy). 🍍

Also... just to throw in a little etymological rant... as a treat: I know most of the rest of the world calls them ananas... but in English (and other languages) all fruit used to be called an apple of some sort. We just never got around to changing pineapple.

The humble potato has some peculiar names in other languages... looking at you, French and Dutch with your pommes de terre (apples of the earth) and aardappels (earth apples)... and then there is also the Italian for tomato... pomodoro... (golden apple) when most the rest of the world call them some version of the Nahuatl 'tomatl'.

Languages are just funny like that and that's why I find them fascinating!

[faverecord]

🎶: rica y apretadita by el general feat. anayka

[gomzdrawfr]

I'm here with distractions! Something to daydream about.

So, it's lambing season and I follow a beefy rancher on Instagram. It got me thinking of your Big Berry AU and farmer Price/Nik. But, what if Nik bottle-feeding orphaned or rejected baby lambs? Shirtless too, because uh... plot... reasons. Talking to them softly when they're bleating at him, "mahh, mahh, I know, it is so tough being small, moya laska".

First of all, how dare you, I had to go to bed thinking about very warm fuzzy Nik that I cannot knead and grab, swear my fever went back up at the thought

Second of all...now we don't have to imagine it...bonus kitty Ghost and Raven...

[aurumacadicus]

Lol. Lmao even.

--

"So, what does a typical Avengers meals look like?" the interviewer asks, smile wide and mean.

Steve hates these types of questions. Everyone knows he and Thor eat like horses. There are pictures of them with their own table laden with food after really strenuous battles while the rest of the team sit at a different one floating all over the internet. Sometimes Bruce joins them, if he'd been Hulked out for a long time.

It's a question to shame Natasha and Tony. It always is, no matter how sincerely the interviewer smiles or insists it's just to see that they're real people. No one gives Steve side-eye when he talks about eating three bagels smothered in lox and cream cheese, but if Natasha mentions ice cream, there are half a dozen articles about how that ice cream goes straight to her thighs. Tony gets pitying looks for trying to keep up with a literal god and the peak of human perfection as he's told he's looking great--for a man his age.

Clint seemed to fly under the radar. He used to gloat, until Bruce had snapped that it was probably because there was a webpage dedicated to pictures of him crawling out of dumpsters during battle after a particularly vicious interviewer had asked Tony if he worried about getting too fat for his suit, and left Natasha visibly rattled when asked if she was taking steroids to stay in shape. He'd apologized immediately after, but Clint had stopped taking joy in being the disaster Avenger when Natasha and Tony started glancing at watches with smiles growing more plastic by the second.

Steve has half a mind to tell the interviewer they all eat protein-filled gruel designed by SHIELD just to get her attention away from them, but Natasha had scowled at him the last time he'd tried to stage a rescue in front of cameras, and he'd taken it as the warning to back off that it was.

"I've gotten real into smoothies," Tony answers, and he actually sounds enthused. "And Natasha's my willing guinea pig. These heathens," he adds, waving at the rest of them. "Wouldn't know a good flavor profile if their lives depend on it."

"He's figured out a chocolate and almond butter recipe with coconut water that tastes just like an Almond Joy," Natasha adds approvingly.

Steve watches the interviewer's face twist with fake sympathy as she winces and hisses through her teeth, hand clenching into a fist on his thigh. He just has to let this happen, he reminds himself. Then they can go home and he can remind Tony and Natasha that they are probably the healthiest normal people in all of SHIELD. Maybe Tony will make that protein-packed smoothie that tastes just like caramel apple pie for him that is probably supposed to embarrass him but he actually really likes.

"Ooh," the interviewer says with another wince. "But aren't smoothies just full of sugar? Wouldn't it be better to eat whole fruit?"

Natasha raises an eyebrow. She opens her mouth, but closes it again when she notices that Tony is openly gawking at the woman like she's personally reached over and slapped him. She leans back in her seat, brows furrowing together as she clearly tries to puzzle out why he looks so shocked.

Tony blinks, once, hard, before he says, "I used to do cocaine, Christine. I think a little sugar from fruit juice is fine."

There's a brief pause as the words sink in, and then Clint spews the water he'd been nervously gulping, and Bruce starts howling with laughter, and it pretty effectively ends the interview there, because no one has heard Bruce laugh that hard outside of the tower and Natasha looks seconds away from guffawing as well.

[screwpinecaprice]

I was trying to eat noodles neatly and for some reason I got sad midway. So I drew them messy eating a biscuit and a strawberry to combat sad noodle blues.

[feminineenergylife]

Healthy Girl Era

Water ✔

Sunlight ✔

Nature ✔

Fruits & Veggies ✔

Positive Mindset ✔

[try-set-me-on-fire]

brother’s keeper

[doostyaudi]

Twisted berry boy redesign