watch me while i bloom

by tamandalamrumah

Went to the national botanical garden and spent the whole day there

(Wrinkled peach mushroom) 🍑

An exhibition of Japanese plants 

This weird plant is the recently described Bolivian endemic Gorgonidium striatum. Endemic means it's native to only one place and nowhere else - in this case, tropical rainforests on the eastern Andean slopes in Bolivia. As a member of the family Araceae, it has a spadix and spathe inflorescence, which means it has a spike of many tiny flowers (here they're dark purple-brown) surrounded by a big bract (modified leaf), which here is both mottled and striped with green, cream, and a bit of purple. It's an interesting one!

Yesterday's Succulents (by flora-file)

Butterflies on dahlias 🦋

Also don’t mind the sacrificial acclimation leaf that’s drooping lol. We don’t talk about her.

my Dondo is blooming so soooooooon.

Only one survived, but it's a beauty.

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