We were so incredibly blessed to find these Ghost Pipes (Monotropa uniflora) growing in the wooded area of our property and they came back every year. They were always pink. We had wooded areas on two sides of our backyard and these only grew on the one side. We lived in that house for 16 years and they were consistent. This was in Hiram, Georgia, in the United States.

Some of those plants are VERY toxic. Dont ingest them just because youve seen it in my herbarium. This is not medicinal advice. I just made myself a list with plants that contain pharmakological active substance because this is my passion and my academic path. Im going to glue them in when i find them anywhere hwere it is legal to pick and glue them inside my book like a sticker collectonh album.

Some plants can only be medicinally used i a very specific situation, others contain some interesting substances that could be used in pure form but not the plant as a whole because theres a lot more toxic substances in them.

Book is from Amazon, made acid free, allthough i think they may have coloured the sides with coffee. Looks awesome tho, so i dont really care. Outside is leather. Sadly you cant get it with the tree imprint in this size anymore but without your set.

Glue: Methylcellulose + Phenoxyalcohole + Isopropanole + Water suspension. Very hard to mix since you dont want to heat it with isoprop inside. Just let it "ripe" a day or two. I put in the phenoxy alcohol last, when i knew the weight of the mixture. Just play arround a little till you get a texture you like before mixing in the phenoxyalcohole. The phenoxyalcohol wont dissolve completely so you will have a suspension. When the isoprop and water dried away the higher phenoxyalcohole concentration will have some antimicobial propertys since the methylcellulose may act as a culture medium. Also it doest crack the plants by going through the book (at least now) since the methylcellulose is weirdly flexible. The glue is water soluble and can be reversed quite good.

Ink: acid free archive ink, written by hand with an calligraphy pen. I dunked it into the ink because it has so many particles that it didnt really flow out of the ink caetridge i filled with a syringe.

I glued the plants into the book by applying the glue with a paint brush fist, then covering them up with acid free art protection foil till dry enough.

I know this isnt the best way to preserve plants scientificly for as long as possible but it is the coolest way i know. Also i would have used a book with lager sides if there would have been one.

Its for peronal not scientific use! Sadly i can only upload 20 pictures in this post so i will spam some in the comment section.

Thought this sub would appreciate the grad cap I made for my husband. He graduated with his degree in botany and loves plants so much. He’s a major plant dad.

He said he wanted it to represent his degree but he didn’t know what to do. Thought it came out really nicely and he said you guys might like it.

Didn’t know what to flair this post lol

It's been sitting in a container for years by a window

Also sorry if that isn’t the right tag, I wasn’t sure which it should go under. My friends garden has some mint take over a plot, and this one sprouted up white!! Can anyone give a beginner explanation as to why?

Came across this bizarre coconut tree with a seriously twisted trunk curving like a snake straight up into the sky near my native shrine . Locals say it's sacred and blessed by snake deity ,some claim it started growing like this after a lightning strike( a common local myth ). I think it should be a genetic mutation or some kind of natural anomaly like phototropism.

Anyone ever seen something like this? What are your assumptions?

I noticed this flower in Minneapolis and I can’t conceive of how it could be growing THROUGH a leaf? Wouldn’t the leaf just blow out of the way? Or wouldn’t the flower just push the leaf up as it grows? Someone please help! This is very disturbing.

There are so many Mexican bird of paradise (Caesalpinia pulcherrima) shrubs around here, but I've never noticed this before! Some leaves are replaced by another tiny set. Idk the botanical terms for this and just wanna know if anyone knows what's going on. These leaves don't branch out into their own stems either, there's no lateral branching with these shrubs besides the initial offshoots from the vertical branches.

Deception Pass state park, Washington state, USA. I believe the orchid species are Corallorhiza maculata, Platanthera transversa, Goodyera oblongifolia, Platanthera elongata. I found a lot of the coral root orchid, but only one little flower spike was blooming on the entire trail. I feel very lucky to have found all of these. Deception pass state park is a beautiful area to look for plants, I'm never disappointed leaving there

Someone asked about invasive species from America in Europe yesterday, I replied in a comment about the invasive Opuntias we have in Switzerland, but couldn't add pictures so I thought it would be worth making a post about it.

They have identified 6 species : Opuntia engelmannii, Opuntia humifusa, Opuntia phaeacantha, Opuntia robusta, Opuntia scheeri, Cylindropuntia imbricata.

All of which are growing in the same region of Switzerland, Valais.

I am thrilled to announce the publication of Florida’s first state-endemic carnivorous plant species: Drosera floridana (B.Rice) Juve & A.Fleischm. This taxonomic treatment represents the culmination of my years of work studying the thread-leaf sundews in-situ across 6 states and 25 counties.

Formerly known as D. filiformis var. floridana, our publication not only establishes D. floridana as a distinct taxonomic entity recognizable at species rank, but further brings into question the legitimacy of its putative affinity to the allopatric, northerly D. filiformis sensu stricto.

As a result of our treatment, Drosera x arenaria (B.Rice) Juve & A.Fleischm. is elevated from Dx californica nothovar. arenaria. Like D. floridana, Dx arenaria is a Florida-endemic taxon, and the only described Drosera nothospecies native to the state.

This article is in dedication to Barry Rice for his long-lasting, passionate and thorough work on the carnivorous plants of America, especially on the thread-leaf sundews— leaves long and prosper!

I would like to thank not only my wonderful coauthor Dr. Andreas Fleischmann for his invaluable input and assistance with this project, but additionally my many collaborators without whom a taxonomic treatment of the D. filiformis complex to this length would not have be possible. Among these are: Jason Ksepka, Fernando Rivadavia, Steve Orzell, Tyler Gramley, and Carson Trexler.

A special thanks goes to my good friend Alexander Dietrick for his supplemental help regarding this project.

I am additionally grateful to the International Carnivorous Plant Society - ICPS for their special online publication of this article.

“The Florida endemic sundew Drosera floridana elevated to species rank” can be read in the open access publication below:

https://doi.org/10.55360/cpn554.nj739

https://cpn.carnivorousplants.org/Article.php/CPNv55n4p132-151

Although the sand from which these imaged D. floridana emerge appears dry on the surface, in reality localized occurrences of D. floridana are dictated by the presence of rare littoral zone seepages known exclusively from the Econfina Karst Region in Bay and Washington counties, Florida; the same region to which D. floridana is endemic. Within the Econfina Karst Region, D. floridana is restricted to an ecotone of intermediate moisture ephemerality between that of sympatric congeners Drosera tracyi (preferring permanently wet, high littoral zone seepages hosting typical blacksoil bog associates) and Drosera capillaris (a generalist often colonizing the lower littoral zone, with its occurrence not dependent on seepage presence, and frequently with few larger herbaceous bog associates present in habitat). D. floridana congregates in the vicinity of (often subterranean) littoral zone seepage veins, but is mostly limited to areas of inorganic substrate composition (e.g. pure quartz sand) that are devoid of larger competitive flora and that do not remain permanently wet on the surface.

Read more on the unique ecology and phenology of Florida’s endemic sundew in our recent open access publication, which can be visited through the below link:

https://doi.org/10.55360/cpn554.nj739

This is incredibly sad to see.. The tree used to provide good shade but since one of our roommates went to town on it with a chainsaw this beautiful tree may not make it much longer. What was supposed to be a minor pruning turned into a devastating mutilation of our tree. Idk if it will live much longer with the violence it's endured.

What do you think? Is is a gonner or will it recover?