#this is not a plant

[flowerishness]

Linum usitatissimum (common flax)

This is not a plant

As I've said before, I like to have fun with free plant identification websites by testing them with artificial flowers, famous paintings etc. just to see what they 'think'. In the past, I've always got an answer even if their identification is what we humans would call a wild guess.

This week, I've been running Mrs. Flowerishness' tea cups through one such program and for the first time it replied, "This is not a plant". So far this website has identified all of the flowers on the tea cups correctly but, for some reason, this tea cup has been rejected. I think it looks a lot like Linum usitatissimum (common flax) to me. Common flax definitely is a plant (its a major agricultural crop) and, if you throw in a little artistic license, I think it's a pretty good likeness at that!

'Regency bone china', Barratt's of Staffordshire Ltd

[heritageposts]

I'm reading about how Israel, in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 Nakba, deliberately replaced olive trees and other indigenous flora with European plants. This ecological disaster, which is now proudly hailed under the banner of 'making the desert bloom,' was done to 'de-Arabize' the landscape, and to cover up - often with fast-growing European pine trees -the ruins of Palestinian villages that were destroyed by Zionists forces.

And I just need everyone to read this passage from Pappé, because the symbolism of what happened to those European pine trees in the desert speaks for itself:

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé (2006, p. 227-228.)

[calamitys-child]

What's everyone's favourite flowers that aren't like. The normal ones. Like everyone's a fan of roses and sunflowers what's a more niche one. One you don't get in gift sets. Mine's sweet peas

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[cordspaghetti]

some more of these two

[zegalba]

Alpine lotus leaf flower

[mushroominawaterbottle]

Cryptozoology is my favourite kind of fake science stuff. Wish there was also cryptobotany, like mothman but its just a really big fern in the middle of a field with literally nothing else around it , that spawned in the dead of night, might have killed a few people and never shows up in photos, and no one is sure its even real

[ilta222]

november 🍂 enjoy the colors before they're gone ✶

tip jar • links

[internetdruid]

Corn in all its colors!

[gulistan-blog]

㋡🥀

[typhlonectes]

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[yuumei-art]

Rain for My Parade 🌧️🌱🌿🌹🌷🌼

part of my cloud petticoat series~

[pdlcomics]

sunlight

[zegalba]

cemetery flowers after the ice storm photography: Peter Fricke