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Iris

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I love u all my planters that I lovingly planted only a month ago that are looking sooo nice

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Aeonium Tom

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Hairy bittercress on a bed of moss

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Taketomi Volcano by Alexander Lavrentiev

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Black Bat Flower

(tacca chantrieri)

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It's mid-March. There's stuff blooming that shouldn't be

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This distinctively warty lichen is Melanohalea exasperata (with several friends) on a lushly populated oak twig.

It can be tricky to find as it mostly grows high up in the tree canopy - so far I've only enountered it on branches that have recently fallen to the ground.

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why does my caladium act like she is starving for light. hang on

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Close to blooming, Paph. callosum

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2008-05-10

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A plant I had been hoping to see for years! This is a striped orchid, Corallorhiza striata. There are a few Corallorhiza species where we go hiking in Washington State, but this one is one of the less common to see. You're more likely to spot C. maculata or C. mertensiana, called spotted and Pacific coralroots, respectively. I found this one on the Olympic Peninsula while backpacking up the Elwha.

Corallorhiza orchids, the coralroots, are mycoheterotrophic, meaning they parasitize mycorrhizal fungi instead of using photosynthesis like most plants. This means they'll just die if someone tries to cultivate them, which is honestly probably a good thing, given how threatened orchids are by poaching.

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We bear the scars but it doesn't make us broken