CondensedGinger

i have nothing but respect for baobabs and the fact that theyre incredibly silo-shaped for optimal water storage but idk they dont quite hit the same beast vibe imo..... same with redwoods and giant sequoias..... enormous Dudes, definitely some of the plants of all time but somehow not quite beasts....like i look at them and they are shockingly large but my brain still recognizes them as trees from a distance. i simply do not feel threatened enough.

Socratea exorrhiza, the walking palms, however. THOSE are beasts, yeah. they dont actually move but the stilt roots look like they SHOULD move to the point where i think if i was walking alone at night near some i would check over my shoulder, you know. like. VERY disconcerting and the texture of the roots REALLY doesnt help. distressing pics for reference

yes!!! mushrooms (which are the fruiting bodies of fungi, but not all fungi make mushrooms) are more closely related to animals than they are to plants, and are close enough to us in DNA that it’s harder for our immune systems to fight off fungal infections than, say, a bacterial infection. 

a question I get every so often, and a question that confounded biologists all through the pre-victorian ages, is what fungi actually is. in modern biology, all life is split into three domains: Domain Bacteria, Domain Archaea, and Domain Eukaryota. everybody is pretty decided that archaea (which are like.....uh.....like, they’re weird, like the full name is ‘Domain Archaeabacteria’ or ancient bacteria, and theyre pretty fucked up X Treme lads that live in some wild conditions and have some special characteristics but i dont know enough about them to go into that here) and bacteria (which are like...you know, normal bacteria) are all separate from Domain Eukaryota, which encompasses pretty much everything that’s not a bacteria or an ancient bacteria. 

from THERE, you have the kingdoms of the Eukaryota domain, which can differ and can get realllyy wild and debatable (humans want to sort things into little neat categories but life and biology arent good at being sorted into little neat categories so the lines are constantly redrawn and everybody has a different opinion), but the main general, non-specific ones that they’ll teach you in a lot of basic bio classes are Kingdom Animalia, Kingdom Plantae, and Kingdom Fungi (and maybe Kingdom Protista, which i also am not experienced enough with to talk about here). 

i mean, i’ve lived in iowa my whole life, so i might be a bit biased, but maize. evolution put teosinte on this planet and roughly 9,000 years later it’s decedents absolutely beg for release from our mortal coil. for those not acquainted, heres an illustration of teosinte, the species of native mexican grass maize was domesticated from, next to modern maize

I’ve submitted this to another blog but I’d thought you would like it too, it’s titled “Pumpkin screams at floating moss ball” (submitted by @plaguedocboi)

A huge and lovey thanks to @condensedginger for drawing all these lovely little pieces for me. My Elder Scrolls Characters. ❤️💛❤️

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(top left) Altharmar and Condensed Ginger

(top right) Altharmar being hot.

(middle) Altharmar being mischievous.

(bottom left) Suramondalf and Morsara

(bottom right) Farlendel.