#pistil

[biologist4ever]

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Black in Back ~

[katiajewelbox]

Flower anatomy up close and personal! 

(Source: Danilo Zavatin’s Instagram page)

[jeanfrancoisrey]

Aura florale…

[ancientstarrydynamo]

If you still want me, please forgive me The crown of love has fallen from me If you still want me, please forgive me Because your hands are not upon me

[coffeenuts]

[chaoticwomanlove]

Un día sin una flor es un día perdido♡🌻

[pack-the-pack]

Pistilverse is an AU mostly used by Korean fanfic writers. In this AU, once a human comes of age, they will either turn into a stamen or a pistil. 

If they are a stamen, they will have have a specific flower, if they are a pistil, a barren tree grows (kind of like a tattoo) on their back. 

When they will "awake" and turn into a Pistil, signalled by a mark similar to a tattoo. The mark looks like a barren tree, branch or vine on their back, growing along the spine, from the tailbone up to the shoulder blade.

The tree takes about 15 days to grow, and the process is called "awakening".

once a Stamen and a Pistil sleep together, the Stamen's flower blooms on the Pistil's tree like a permanent tattoo. The number of flowers is proportional to that of the Stamens they had sex with, and they can have more flowers of the same type if they had sex with Stamens carrying the same flower mark. Pistils with flowers of different colors on their backs are treated like prostitutes. 

About 4% of Stamens have poison and are called Venom Stamens; accordingly, their mark is a poisonous plant like poppies and marianne (Dieffenbachia). They can communicate venom to a Pistil during sex, "bonding" with them.

"Bonding" prevents Pistils from forming a relationship with a different Stamen forever. If they break this rule and sleep with another Stamen, poison spreads through their blood vessels and Pistils die of poisoning within 3 days. Stamens who have sex with a bonded Pistil will also die of poisoning.

Oh...

That kind of puts a damp towel over my previous excitement.

Not because it's not a cool concept. I think it is! I like the idea of plant-like features in individuals, and that having different connotations and interpretations in society, as well as different "powers".

I just dislike tattoos 😅

If they're like scars, I can get down with it more easily. But if they look very similar to what we know as tattoos in real life, that's just not something I'm interested in.

It's a rather cool concept, though. To think about how different plant-people affect others around them and themselves. I think it's worth it to explore it more in the future. Just maybe in different ways other than images on skin. At least on my end that is.

[colorsoutofearth]

Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) showing the pistil and stamen

Photo by Stephen Dalton

[bee-sapphic]

A Bushel of Apples

[meri-meri-mwah]

Cannot believe Trigun got me relearning Plant anatomy because I firmly believe Vash and Knives have plant genitalia.

I guess taking a biology class in school wasn't for nothing. 💀

[biologist4ever]

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Yellow Green ~

[sourskytears]

Pistil on a stem

i feel as though i pick off pieces of myself, my emotions, like petals of a flower sometimes. shall i soon simply be the pistil on a stem? what else could be left of me? if i stop now, shall half a flower still be one of the very beauties of nature? would anyone still want to pluck me from the lush grass? even next to dozens of flowers with all their petals still attached? could, perhaps, the petals of a flower ever grow back? maybe it is safe to hope, just this once.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Arabidopsis thaliana flower with pollen tubes growing through the pistil. The flower tissues were chemically cleared to become transparent, while the pollen tubes were stained with aniline blue (yellow fluorescence) in order to be seen.

By Jan Martinek (Czech Republic)

Olympus Image Of The Year Award

[fretbored34]

You're the horcrux that needs to be destroyed 😈