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Taken by naturalist and nature conservator Ralph Ramey, this is a photograph of purple pitcher plants (Sarracenia purpurea), also called the northern pitcher plant or side-saddle flower. The purple pitcher plant is a carnivorous plant which lures insects which fall into the pitcher and drown in the rain water collected there, and are digested by enzymes and bacteria living in the pitchers.

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Bush Clematis, NZ, circa 1900, Auckland, by Frederick George Radcliffe, Brown & Stewart. Te Papa (O.031108)

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n265_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: The Botanical register London :Printed for James Ridgway,1815-1828. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/130630

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Taken by naturalist and nature conservator Ralph Ramey at Glen Helen Nature Preserve in Yellow Springs, Ohio, this is a photograph of a sassafras tree of the Lauraceae family, a tree native to North America and East Asia. The sassafras is characterized by slender branches with orangish brown or yellow bark with unlobed, bilobed, and trilobed leaves, and tiny yellow flowers. The leaves, bark, roots, flowers, and fruit of the sassafras are used for culinary, medicinal, and aromatic purposes. Sassafras is the main ingredient in root beer and an important ingredient in Creole dishes. Sassafras has been used topically and orally for various injuries and ailments ranging from arthritis and skin disorders to urinary problems and fevers.

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Zamioculcas species / ZZ Plant

Growing well in the greenhouse.

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Working on prototypes for informational coloring sheets! This one depicts sarracenia purpurea, the only pitcher native to the Midwest.

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n68_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Flower emblems, or, The seasons of life. London :Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday,MDCCCLXXI [1871] biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59933890

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Pear tree flowers (Pyrus calleryana) from Pomona Italiana (1817 - 1839) by Giorgio Gallesio (1772-1839). by Free Public Domain Illustrations by rawpixel Via Flickr: Free download under CC Attribution ( CC BY 4.0). Please credit the artist and rawpixel.com. Higher resolutions with no attribution required can be downloaded: www.rawpixel.com/category/public_domain

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Plant blog honorable mention

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Plant of the Day

Wednesday 17 January 2024

A native to the rainforests of Brazil, Begonia luxurians (palm leaf begonia) needs frost free growing conditions. This houseplant is best placed out of direct sunlight and kept moist during the growing season.

Jill Raggett

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Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use, 1900

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just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

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Sunflowers,Russia (1910)

Photography by Sergey Prokudin-Gorskiy (1863-1944)

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300 potted hydrangea plants on the steps of a temple in Japan.I will share this wonderful scenery with you.

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The ‘I’iwi, also known as the scarlet honeycreeper, is endemic to the Hawaiian islands and feeds on nectar with its curved bill. They are currently threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation. 🌺

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Roses in color

date: 1907

taken by: Julie Laurberg

source: Det Kgl. Bibliotek

The autochrome process invented by the French Lumière brothers was one of the first kinds of color photography and the first to gain widespread commercial success.

This autochrome was taken by the Danish photographer Julie Laurberg (1856-1925), who was one of the very first people in Denmark to take photographs in color. She had opened a photography studio in Copenhagen in 1895, became a royal court photographer, a committee member of the Danish Photographers Association and was active in the fight for women's rights.

(Julie Laurberg photographed in 1918)