#gutweed

[jadafitch]

Seaweed Stickers!

[drafthearse]

Gutweed (Ulva intestinalis) at low tide in Brofjorden, Govik, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden.

[fartbong-rewritten]

it's called gutweed... supposed to turn you into a real cheeseburger eater

[savesharkwars]

Greenie Patches and Love - Flower Shop AU

Sandy works are a greenie shop, and she can't help but fantasize about who she wants to be buying bouquets from her.

AU background: This is an AU where Sandy works in a ‘flower’ shop that sells greenie ‘bouquets’ and stuff like that. It takes place before she has Riprap and Ebbie.

Notes: Sandy has the night shift because apparently Nurse sharks are nocturnal?? Aw! Also, if my seaweed growing patterns are wrong don’t get mad at me. XD I’m not a marine biologist and do not live near the ocean.

Words: 1,575

(End notes and fic under the cut.)

The sandy brown shark moved slowly through the water, watching the different kinds of greenie wave in the current as she passed by them. They had been grouped into different little growing areas based on what sort of greenie they were, and she felt herself smile as she saw the beautiful rainbow morph and move around her. Some sharks just called them all “greenie,” but she knew better.

Incredible plumes of Red algae that burned like the run, seagrassess that seemed to offer their image to an endless enclosure rather than the small one they had been placed into, giant golden kelp with gorgeous flowing leaves that seemed to dart back and forth just like the little fish that sought refuge inside their sky reaching vines. It was all incredible! (And Sandy couldn’t help but do an excited turn as she thought about them.) 

She had been assigned to greenie picking duty for the most recent bouquet, after her coworker had taken the order and decided that Sandy’s keen eye and quick teeth were perfect for nipping the greenie into a pretty shape. (Her coworker, in contrast, only took orders for seasoning. Her skills were more suited for crushing than cutting.) The thought of her coworker reminded Sandy of the question always running through her head. Did her clients ever use a pretty bouquet as seasoning? Depending on the greenie, it might be cheaper or more expensive that way.

The thing was, bouquets weren’t always all that popular, since most sharks turned up their snouts at something so non necessary, so as Sandy picked a clump of bright green gutweed from a high rock, holding it in her jaws carefully, she began to wonder about the sort of shark who may have requested such a thing. Maybe they were a thoughtful shark, buying a greenie bouquet for a parent, or a child, or maybe even a lover. Her fins twitched as she lay a puff of red algae on her growing pile of supplies. She imagined receiving one of these bouquets herself, just as thoughtful as it was beautiful and tasty, and felt her face warm with flustered embarrassment at the thought. 

She shifted the gutweed so it was like a nice wrap around the red algae puff, and then carefully moved the whole thing to an alcove with very little current. This way it would not be disturbed as she went to grab the other requested greenie varieties. (Her brain felt scrambled from imagining receiving such a gift, but she had the sense in her to remember to keep it safe as she worked.) She patted it with a fin and imagined it was the shark her mind had conjured up. He (because he was a “he” in her head) was strong, with tough flanks and sharp teeth, but he was kind too! He’d gotten her a bouquet from such a good shop because he truly loved her just as much as because they tasted great as you brought them home. Very thoughtful!

Sandy twirled in the water as she swam upward, aiming to get the top of some giant golden greenie. She thought it was both the most beautiful and the most delicious of all the greenies, which explained why it was so popular. (It also made it awfully convenient that it was so huge and so plentiful in the lands behind the shop.) She reached the top and felt moonlight speckling down on her flanks from beyond the chop chop as she took the top portion of the greenie in her jaws, careful to severe and not to chew, and hurriedly brought it back down to her unfinished bouquet. She couldn't have her made up shark wait, now could she?

She attached it carefully, and then swam a few tail strokes to grab the last requested variety of greenie. This one was as red as the puffs of red algae, but as floaty and thin as the golden greenie. But despite being similar to her beloved giant greenie, she could not find it in herself to like it, not anymore. A long time ago, back when her son Gray was very young, he had gotten stuck in a patch of the stuff. He had been so scared, and while he’d never really been small (big pup), he’d looked so weak that she’d actually gotten angry at the greenie itself. So, as Sandy quickly tore some red greenie away and swam back to her bouquet, she decided that her made up shark would care about pups as much as she did.

He would never let Gray be scared. He would save him even faster than Sandy had! Her mind drifted as she began to work the plants into the bouquet, and she found herself wondering if he’d be good at other things relating to pups.

Sandy felt her face flush as red as the greenie in her jaws. She finished the arrangement in double time, tying it firmly with a long strand of seagrass before speeding back into the shop. He swam towards her coworker, who was chatting with the customer at the counter, and was about to head back out for some cooldown time when her eye caught on the customer in question.

Her jaw dropped and the bouquet floated slowly and dramatically to the sandy floor. He was the shark she’d imagined! (At least, in the looks department.) He was a nurse shark like her, with smooth scales, a powerful looking tail, shiny eyes, and the cutest barbels she’d ever seen. She hadn’t noticed him when he’d placed the order, since it had been passed to her from her coworker, but now it was clear that she wouldn’t be able to treat him with such indifference anymore. (She wasn’t even sure she would be able to pick up the bouquet again, she was suddenly so flustered.)

“Um,” she stammered, deciding to give it her best shot, “Sorry!” She pushed her nose under the bundle, pushing it higher in the water and towards the customer. “Didn’t mean to drop that,” she laughed awkwardly, and her eyes darted between the bouquet and her coworker, “I trust it’s to your liking?”

The customer laughed a good natured laugh, and Sandy’s gills fluttered slightly as she choked in a gasp of water. Before Sandy could say anything else, her coworker nodded at her. “I already took care of payment,” she said, and then added, with an ultra annoying smirk, “I’ll let you take care of the rest.” In a flourish of bubbles, she turned tail and swam for the back exit, which Sandy absolutely did not appreciate.

Once the spectacle was over, the customer nodded, gently picking up the bouquet in his jaws and giving Sandy a pleasant wave of a fin. Sandy felt like doing an actual barrel roll when she saw that, but was able to restrain herself for long enough to nod in thanks for the compliment. 

But instead of leaving the shop, as she had been expecting, the customer just awkwardly floated towards a side wall. Sandy felt like she was going to explode, but she swore that it wasn’t just her imagination that the pretty nurse shark before her seemed to be acting a bit nervous. Did he want to ask her something?

“Did you want anything else sir?” she stuttered, swimming over the counter in what she hoped was a natural looking gesture, “Another bouquet perhaps?”

He hesitated, but then let the greenie fall when he opened his jaws to speak. “No thank you miss,” he said, causing the unmistakable feeling of flying fish fins fluttering in her gut, “but you are quite talented, you know.”

Sandy blushed. “Thank you,” she said, still fighting a losing battle to act nonchalant and not like she was going crazy, “that’s very appreciated from, ah…” She paused, and probably blushed even harder, but her embarrassment was saved as the customer interrupted.

“What’s your name?” He asked abruptly, his tail flickering nervously behind him.

Sandy opened and closed her mouth a few times, just like the little guppy fish that Gray had always shown so much interest in chasing, “I’m Sandy!” she finally squeaked out, “What’s yours?”

“I’m Coral,” he said, awkwardly swimming forward in order to rub flanks with her.

Though it was very much an awkward gesture, Sandy had hardly finished short circuiting by the time he had pulled away and begun to talk again. “I live over by the sunken land shark boat,” he continued, digging his snout under the fallen bouquet to pick it up once more, “you can be drop by for breakfast tomorrow, if you want,”

Sandy’s mouth dropped open, but she did her best to cover her shock with a playful quip. “Well Coral,” she said, trying not to shriek with joy, “As long as my bouquet isn’t on the menu, I might just do that.”

He laughed, and even though his mouth was full of greenie, he managed out a muffled, “I might just have to change my plans then,” before he slipped out the door. 

Sandy might have floated there for the rest of the night, but it seemed that as soon as Coral was gone, Sandy’s coworker materialized behind her, laughing. But Sandy didn’t care! She had a very fun breakfast ahead of her, and she was not going to let anything get her down, even friendly teasing for the entire remaining duration of her shift.

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Is this a bad time to admit that I have NEVER read a Flower Shop AU before...?

[florriescreamlagoon]

I heard you laid her keel beneath the gantry,

that you eased her down the slipway with tallow,

train oil, soap. I heard you carved her likeness

from a skate, and called her Jenny. I’ve seen

those piles of gutweed, folded over, piled high,

and yes, I’ve heard the stories of her hair –

how a man might lose his mind there, in the green,

trying to find the one green strand that leads him home.

Abigail Parry

[neuropteran]

i love tide pools

[hibikiclownzz]

starlight!!

starlight; what was your favourite show as a child?

i had a ton but the ones i liked the most were hannah montana, the backyardigans, and zaboomafoo (the one with the talking lemur 😔👊)

[sleebyjam]

fun fact: youre super cool!!!!!

Ummm, source???

[thermporia]

@gutweeds fursona, commissioned as a gift !

[clatteriing]

What is it though?  That sound – like moving shale, the dull, ceramic clink of oyster shells or sharpened chitin, ticking on the hull.  I think you know the shape of it – nine fathoms down, and stirring in the silt.  And I’ve heard all about her – I’ve heard that pliant waist gives way to scale below the belt.  I’ve heard her voice is vinegar, or salt ground in a wound, or eight bells tolled together as you founder.  I’ve heard her battle ensign is a square of black and gold, with a little silver kiss for every barque she struck and sunk. I heard you tacked her picture in the dark above your bunk, and I heard you licked her name around your bow.  I heard her little jinx slunk up the gangway, and fizzed and fretted in the ballast tank.  I heard you had her inked in blue and black beneath the quay, with a swallow for the journey, and a holdfast, and a rose, and a wonky dagger squirming through a heart. I  heard you laid her keel beneath the gantry, that you eased her down the slipway with tallow, train oil, soap.  I heard you carved her likeness from a skate, and called her Jenny. I’ve seen those piles of gutweed, folded over, piled high, and yes, I’ve heard the stories of her hair – how a man might lose his mind there, in the green, trying to find the one green strand that leads him home.  And there it is – that sound – coaxing from the gullet of the whirlpool, or rising up to meet you, as you go down into the dark. There are no charts for this, no following wind, and every course you plot leads back to her – her formal thorns, her pole, her doldrum calm, a lucid little scrum of weed and eels that drifts and weaves in all the lawless currents down below.  What is that, though? That urchin, that sharp medicine, that bad star, that marlinspike that worries at the heart and its knotted fist.  I know the mind plays games – how the ice makes flimsy pictures in the air above the water.  But I have to wonder, Captain – what trick of light or vision turned the girl into the monster?  Because I heard there was a time she wore your promise round her finger. And I heard that when she left, she left it sitting on the counter.  The dull click-clink of gold as it meets formica; how the world can turn and drain through its puny hole. I think I know the shape of it, when the thole fits so precisely in the gunwale, and with that old tell-tale spiralling, blown backwards on the wind.

Abigail Parry, Scylla

[drafthearse]

Blanket weed Cladophora glomerata moving in a wave. It grows on a rusty boat ramp in Govik, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden. In among the Cladophora glomerata are tufts of gutweed (Ulva intestinalis) and top left are a couple of dead man's rope (Chorda filum).

[gutweeds]

hey guys im messing around with my username rn....

i wanna use gutweeds as my art brand! i wanna find a new name for my shitposty account aa

i wanted milkweed but all names similar to it are good ): so for now im silkweed lol

[gundham-tanaka-did-nothing-wrong]

K hold on I wanna thank the people who keep liking and reblogging the stupid stuff I post-

@fish-wwith-flair

@daviddoesntsucc

@aisforarsenic

@gutweeds

@pastelcoloursz

@adorkablenerd

@weirdchristmascarols

@pinkithai

@mmusikis-blog

[carnalmantrap]

Hmm.

@gutweeds

[mentaripagibali]

List of Medicinal Plants And Their Uses For Treating Kidney Stone Disease (Part I)

Using various medicinal plants to prevent and treat kidney stone disease needs the research results as a reference.

The recommended plants have the efficacy of treating kidney stones and various accompanying diseases. In addition, herbalists commonly use medicinal plants to treat patients with kidney stones.

Here is a list of 20 names of medicinal plants used to treat kidney stones disease. They have their uses, which complement each other.

The following is the information of the names of medicinal plants, the parts of the plants used for medicine, and their uses for treating kidney stones disease.

1. Keji Beling – Strobilanthes crispa

Keji Beling – Strobilanthes crispa is a shrub that originated from Madagascar. Now is found across South East Asia. This plant is a member of the Acanthaceae family. Another name of this plant is pokok pecah kaca or pokok pecah beling in Malaysia, and pecah beling, enyoh kilo, kecibeling, or kejibeling in Indonesia. Leaves of keji beling, are used traditionally, for the treatment of cancer and diabetes. They are usually taken as tea or infusion of the leaves.

Keji Beling (Strobilanthes crispa)

The part of the plant used is the leaves. Keji beling leaves can be in the form of fresh leaves, dry leaves, or those that have been packaged in capsule form.

The efficacy of this medicinal plant as a cure for kidney stones has been recognized by doctors. Keji beling has been processed by pharmaceutical companies into capsules that can be purchased at drug stores and pharmacies.

Keji beling in the treatment of kidney stone disease functions as a stone crusher and laxative urine.

2. Kumis Kucing – Orthosiphon aristatus

Kumis Kucing – Orthosiphon aristatus is one of the plant species in the family of Lamiaceae / Labiatae. This medicinal plant is a medicinal herb found mainly throughout Southern China, the Indian Subcontinent, South East Asia, and tropical Queensland. In Indonesia is known as kumis kucing and in Malaysia is called misai kucing. Both of which translates to cat’s whiskers in English. In the USA it is known as cat’s whiskers or Java tea.

Kumis Kucing (Orthosiphon aristatus)

The parts of the cat’s whiskers plant used are all plant parts. Especially the leaves. It can be fresh leaves, dry leaves, or powder form packaged in capsules.

The efficacy of this medicinal plant is to crush stones and laxative stones that are in the urinary tract.

3. Tempuyung – Sonchus arvensis

Tempuyung – Sonchus arvensis, known as the field milk thistle, field sowthistle, perennial sow-thistle, corn sow thistle, dindle, gutweed, swine thistle, or tree sow thistle. This plant is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae. Tempuyung often occurs in annual crop fields and may cause substantial yield losses.

Tempuyung (Sonchus arvensis)

All parts of the tempuyung plant can be used for treating kidney stone disease. Moreover, the leaves have high efficacy.

This medicinal plant is effective to crush and laxative stones in the kidneys and helps facilitate urination.

4. Kembang bugang – Clerodendrum calamitosum

Kembang bugang – Clerodendrum calamitosum is included as one of the medicinal plants. It is a wild plant belonging to the family Lamiaceae, which is sometimes classified under the family Verbenaceae.

Flower of Kembang bugang (Clerodendrum calamitosum)

Leaves of Kembang bugang (Clerodendrum calamitosum)

The parts of the kembang bugang plant used are roots and leaves. The roots and leaves used can be fresh, dried, or in the form of powder capsules.

This plant has functiion for crushing stones, analgesic, and hemostatic.

5. Gempur batu – Ruellia napifera

Gempur batu – Ruellia napifera, known as keji beling (Javanese), tutup bumi (Gayo), picah beling, and enyoh kelo. It is an Indonesian medicinal plant. In Gayo, gempur batu mixed with several other herbs is used to treat sprains. In Java, it is used to treat urinary stones.

Gempur batu (Ruellia napifera)

The effective parts of gempur batu for treating kidney stone disease are all parts of the plant. It can be fresh or dried form.

This medicinal plant is quite effective as stone crusher or laxative stones in the kidneys, the urinary tract (ureters), or the bladder. Another effect is to facilitate the release of urine.

6. Meniran – Phyllanthus urinaria

Meniran – Phyllanthus urinaria, commonly called chamber bitter, gripeweed, shatter stone, stonebreaker (but can refer to other Phyllanthus species as well), or leaf flower. It is a species of suffruticose, woody, and perennial at the base with the above being herbaceous. It is the herb in the family Phyllanthaceae.

Meniran (Phyllanthus urinaria)

Part of Meniran (Phyllanthus urinaria)

Roots of Meniran (Phyllanthus urinaria)

The plant parts used for treatment are roots, stems, leaves, fruit, and seeds. Use in the form of fresh, dried, or extract in capsules.

This medicinal plant is the main plant and a complimentary herb for treating kidney stones and urinary stones. Meniran has a function as laxative urine and relieve fever.

7. Putri Malu – Mimosa pudica

Putri Malu – Mimosa pudica, also known as sensitive plant, sleepy plant, action plant, touch-me-not, shame plant. This medicinal plant is a creeping annual or perennial flowering plant of the pea/legume family Fabaceae.

Putri Malu (Mimosa pudica)

From experience, the plant parts used are all plant parts in fresh and dried form.

Putri malu is very well included in the potion to anticipate the occurrence of infection and inflammation.

8. Alang-Alang – Imperata cylindrica

Alang-Alang – Imperata cylindrica, commonly known as cogongrass or kunai grass. It has a sweet taste. This medicinal plant is a species of perennial rhizomatous grass native to tropical and subtropical Asia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Australia, Africa, and southern Europe.

Roots of Alang-Alang (Imperata cylindrica)

Alang-Alang (Imperata cylindrica)

Based on experience, the part of the plant used as a medicine for kidney stones is the root.

The use of alang-alang for kidney stone disease is as a complementary herb. Serves to accelerate the healing process and remove kidney stones. This medicinal plant can laxative urine and reduce pain.

9. Daun sendok – Plantago major

Daun sendok – Plantago major, the broadleaf plantain, white man’s foot, or greater plantain. It is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae. The plant is native to most of Europe and northern and central Asia. But it has widely naturalised elsewhere in the world.

Leaves of Daun sendok (Plantago major)

Daun sendok (Plantago major)

The plant part used is the whole plant. The form can be fresh, dried, or powder in capsules.

This medicinal plant treats the side effects of kidney stone disease. It treats infection, inflammation, and pain relief.

10. Tapak liman – Elephantopus scaber

Tapak liman – Elephantopus scaber is a tropical species of flowering plant in the sunflower family. This plant is native to tropical Africa, Eastern Asia, Indian Subcontinent, South East Asia, and northern Australia. It has become naturalized in tropical Africa and Latin America.

Tapak liman (Elephantopus scaber)

This medicinal plant can use as an antibiotic, anti-inflammatory, and laxative urine. All of that will speed up the healing process for kidney stones. Tapak liman plant destroys stones in the kidneys or the urinary tract, also anticipates inflammation and infection.

In herbal medicine, the part of tapak liman plant taken is the whole plant. It can be fresh, dried, and powdered capsules.

To be continued in part II

https://english.tajba.com/list-of-medicinal-plants-and-their-uses-for-treating-kidney-stone-disease-part-i/

[solentviews]

Institute of Marine Science Trip (Second post)

On Wednesday the 23rd my group and I attended the Institute of Marine Science in Southsea. We met with Kate Dey and Laura Michie who both gave us information on invasive species, in their respective areas, in the Solent area. 

We learnt about what the term invasive actually means and what it means for the marine ecosystem in Portsmouth. We then had a chance to learn about the invasive species in the Solent and had a chance to collect samples and identify them ourselves. 

We went down to the Pontoon with buckets, scrapers and nets to collect samples of species that were growing along them. Overall my group collected 7 different samples of species for analysis. I particularly enjoyed the collecting of the samples and being up close and personal to them as it was interesting to see what had always been lurking around the waters I have been visiting since I was a child and yet had no idea about. Rather ironically I felt a sense of invading their space. 

Upon taking the species back we worked alongside Katy and Laura to identify the species we had collected. Using multiple guides we determined we had found: Algae (Grateloupia Turuturu), Leathery Sea Squirt (Styela Clava), Wire Weed (Sargassum Muticum), Tunicate (Corella Eumyota), Sea Lettuce (Ulva Lactuca), Gutweed (Ulva intestinalis) and Snakelocks (Anemonia Viridis). Out of the 7 species we analysed 4 of these were not native to the Solent and therefore were classed as invasive species. This was shocking as many of us had seen these species before at different beaches and it never occurred that these species did not belong where they were found. 

After we had identified all species we were then shown around the institute. Before this point in the day we had only really heard the negative impact of invasive species. Now we were looking at ways in which these species could be used to help aid scientific research. On one floor of the institute is used for testing how marine species (not just invasive) react under different stressors whether this is micro-plastic or drugs. In another area different invasive species were housed with different materials trying to see how boats and other marine equipment could be better protected, not only for self preservation but also to avoid bio-fouling and carrying different species over to places where they would become invasive and possibly destructive. 

As a group we decided that we would now focus our presentation on the invasive species we had identified from our sample as we now had first had information on them and the effect they have on the Solent. However, we may still include other invasive species we had identified from our primary research.