Plants

Lysimachia maritima, the sea milkwort, is a flowering plant in the family Primulaceae. It has a circumpolar distribution across the Northern Hemisphere and is native to Europe, Central Asia and North America. The species grows mainly in coastal habitats in Europe, but can also occur inland in mesic habitats in Asia and North America, up to elevations of 2,600 m (8,500 ft). Formerly classified as the sole species in the genus Glaux, it is distinguished from other members of Primulaceae by its lack of petals; its flowers instead have a pink or white petaloid calyx. The fleshy leaves are arranged in opposite pairs. This focus-stacked photograph shows a L. maritima plant flowering on a beach on the island of Norderney, part of the Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park in Germany.

Photographer: Stephan Sprinz

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Transcript is here:

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5713514

The linked interview covers consciousness in general -- AI, pschedelics, etc.

Transcript is here:

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5713514

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/33985344

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Midwest USA. June 2024.

Another fantastic local orchid. A little more uncommon than the yellow variant, but still fairly common.

Midwest USA. June 2024

One of the many beautiful orchids we have here. This one is quite common and a personal favorite.

This is one of my top 10 plants because of its ecology. M.uniflora doesn't have any chlorophyll and thus can't photosynthesize. It gets its nutrients by parasitizing mycorrhizal fungi connected to tree roots.

This plant has some medicinal properties too. It's been the "in" thing to make a tincture from them. It's said it can treat pain, anxiety, and sleeplessness.

This is an old photo of mine from August 2024.

Olympus E-M1, 228mm, f/8, 1/100s, ISO 200

We've all seen them, but do you know how versatile cattails really are?

100% of this plant is edible. It also makes a fantastic insulator and the stalks are great building materials. It's often referred to as the plant with a thousand uses. When they're young you can find a jelly-like substance between its leaves that has antiseptic and analgesic properties.

A beautiful splash of red and orange on my rather white current conditions. A poisonous fruit to us but a vital food source for winter birds. There just so happened to be a family of black-capped chickadees nearby.

Towering talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives, decades after famed Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx introduced them in the 1960s.

Towards the end of its life — which can span between 40 and 80 years — the palm tree sends up a central plume crowded with millions of small, creamy-white blossoms that rise high above its fan-shaped leaves.

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I was on a long walk yesterday and noticed this unfamiliar plant with red berries growing by an unkempt fence line. I snapped a picture to ID later and found out it's wild asparagus. Truly wild.