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what is it about fungi that’s so mythical and freaky and set in humanities heads as “fable and Other Folk” fodder

the lore

the vibes

the spooky feeling in the Ghosts and Aliens Section of my brain that goes off

like, look at this and tell me that magic isn’t real and doesn’t want to strip us bare and use our souls as bartering chips in cosmic games of poker

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via pinterest 

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Few headlines make me as annoyed as “10 houseplants that don’t require sunlight to live!”

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life.by.linus on Instagram

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realizing there were pitcher plants all around me was super shocking, i had no idea they grew in my cold canadian climate until a few years ago. i think the only reason they go unnoticed, much to their benefit, is they love to grow in soft marshes that people hate walking in

honestly mood, like my fave thing is those pics that show just a massive amount of carnivorous plants in such abundance that it crosses back over into ‘kind of looks like normal plants’ territory. like this picture haunts me

this is a field of the carnivorous pitfall trap darlingtonia california. this plant lures in insects in through an inverted-lobster-pot-like opening, trapping them in a little chamber and letting them either beat themselves to death or tire themselves out trying to escape through little semi-transparent portions in the top (which look like openings it can escape through but are actually just thin parts of the leaf letting light filter through with no opening whatsoever), causing them to eventually fall down deeper into the plant to their death in a pool of digestive fluid. as you can see they are living large in this peaceful meadow. this is what they look like up close

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my girl poured her diva cup out into her plant and now the plant’s alive again her pussy voodoo

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Succulents are easily propagated but also Begonias and African Violets can grow roots from a leaf cutting. 

it makes me so mad that people aren’t taught that you can just... clone plants.

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Focus//Oregon November 2017

Prints//Instagram

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Alpstein, a very unique place by neiltapman

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by Kyle Bonallo (Instagram)

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Source.

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This blog’s official stance on the US is that it (along with Canada who are just as complicit in indigenous genocide) should be dismantled and given back to the indigenous folks.

All of this is also super relevant to a biology-focused blog because as previously discussed, the indigenous folks already know how to manage the continent to the point where large swaths of it were engineered to be habitable to humans, all without causing mass extinctions, and thus it’s impossible to truly have a good conversation on conservation without taking into account indigenous folks and their voices, or it ends up becoming a conservation that throws marginalized folks under the bus and ultimately changes nothing about the conservation of biodiversity, leading to the same route that we’re currently on. (Besides ignoring indigenous folks, a lot of environmentalist movements have been hugely racist in general and also have harmed disabled folks.)

(Which is also why I’ve been making a habit of boosting indigenous-related posts lately)

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gentle spring rain 🌸 🌾 🌱 🌧

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