#hesperidia

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I was enjoying some citrus the other day when I got to thinking about these peculiar fruits. They are some of my favorites yet I know very little about their development. What is a citrus fruit exactly and why are they so juicy?

To start with, citrus fruits are produced by members of the citrus or rue family - Rutaceae. Not all members of this family produce them either. Technically speaking, the oranges, lemons, limes (etc.) we eat are specialized berries called "hesperidia." They are characterized by their tough rind and juicy interior.

Following fertilization, the ovary of each flower begins to swell. The rind is referred to as the pericarp. The pericarp itself has a few layers associated with it but this is where the oil-filled pits are located. Anyone that has ever squeezed an orange peel has seen these pits spurt their contents.

Inward from the pericarp are a series of segments, which are the carpels. The individual carpels are the reason why oranges can be so easily segmented. Inside each carpel is a locule. These are small cavities where the seeds are housed. Lining the walls of these loculi are tiny hairs that, as the fruit matures, gradually fill with juices.

These juice-filled hairs makeup the pulp of a citrus fruit. Look closely and you can see that they are indeed individual compartments. This not only provides some nutrients to the developing seeds, it also provides a meal for potential seed dispersers, thus increasing the chances of successful recruitment away from the parent tree.

From a quick snack I spiraled into a world of new information. It is amazing what you can learn from simple questions. As a botanically oriented person, every meal offers a sea of discovery!

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hesperidia asked:

Also let's vote on Treestuck's title, I say Page of Heart.

LAUGHS I would be interested in knowing! I should go ask corgi what she thinks I would be, too. She would probably know best since she's seen me at something other than what might be my very worst! (Which is what this blog is, I have no illusions about that at all.)

...nevermind. I underestimated her levels of puckery today.

corgi!: gent of piss noel: you're a troll

Anonymous asked:

oh god noel...i ...i think i love you..

WELL HI ANON. I have absolutely no idea what I did to deserve that BUT I LOVE YOU TOO.

Anonymous asked:

Im so sooo sorry :( Reading you reading this part of homestuck is the same feeling as watching Nepeta go off through the vents during horrorstuck. Arrgh, will say no more; good luck. :(((

WOW THAT WAS AN AWFUL PART OF HOMESTUCK IF READING MY BLOG IS LIKE THAT WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE RUN AWAY. THAT'S TERRIBLE.

I'LL TRY TO NOT DIE WITHOUT PUTTING UP (much of) A FIGHT IN THE END?

tasty-salamanders asked:

Hey didn't you skip the hub before this to continue with the Rose/Dave story or am I mistaken?

Nope! ...At least, I'm pretty sure I didn't. What happened was that the rose/dave photo was the last one I read on one hub, and the first one I read on the next!

ablogwithatitle asked:

Ok, just going to tell you (not anon and everything) and hope you take this well, but the Homestuck discussion thread on a forum I frequent is kind of obsessed with you. They generally don't really like liveblogs but they really like your one. Not quite sure why I'm telling you, just thought it would be nice to tell you of the thread which pretty much now talks about your liveblog for about 80% of our posts.

I'm... I'm sorry? IM NOT SURE WHAT TO FEEL HERE, HAHA. The only place that I know of that knows I exist is some people in the SA forum. Is this some place different? (is this where the newest burst of followers has come from?) HI FORUM I DON'T KNOW, I'M GLAD YOU GUYS ARE READING ALONG AND HAVING FUN. Don't hurt yourselves laughing too hard at my pain! I think that's actually a pretty serious concern for some of this blog's followers.

I'm really glad they're enjoying it, hopefully it isn't too annoying for the people who aren't interested in hopping aboard the feels train.

It's almost certainly because actual homestuck is on a hiatus though. Once you guys go back to getting real updates, it'll probably calm down!

Anonymous asked:

Okay now I'm curious. What was your reasoning on how Denizens are assigned?

Well, a couple of people pointed out in other asks that the Denizens are tied to people's roles in the game, which is not at all what I would have expected. I would have thought that the Denizens would be unique, like the lands (presuming the lands ARE unique in the end.) Since the lands are so unique to the players, I thought the Denizens would be things that specifically were challenging to them, too.

And if anyone was going to have difficulty (in a couple of ways) dealing with what is likely a whale type beast of hellish proportion and behavior, I would have thought it would be Gamzee.

Or Eridan if they wanted to make the Ahab joke again, but he already killed his whale.

nephirin asked:

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh my god. The schadenfreude that foresight provides. You don't even know, Noel. The things you say. xD

ON ONE HAND I WISH I HAD /ANY/ IDEA AS TO WHAT I SAID THAT BROUGHT THIS ON.

ON THE OTHER HAND, BEING OBLIVIOUS MIGHT SAVE ME FROM SOME PAIN. MAYBE.

broseidonthebroceangod asked:

You: "Your username is amazing." Me: OH MY GOD THANK YOU. I can safely say that you totally made my day just now. ::3

Well. I mean. Look at it. It's awesome! I don't think anyone could see your username without having to shield their eyes from the sheer burning excellence.

Anonymous asked:

Speaking of Vriskachat, Docchat, and Gamzeechat, I'm awaiting a certain point in the story so I can deal out some Nepetachat!

YES, GOOD. Nepeta and Feferi were the two trolls who, to me at least, got screwed out of really being solid characters. We hardly got to know them. It's not their fault they're kind of at the bottom of my list of trolls I like. Not that I don't like them, I do. I just like them LESS, because we hardly got to know them!

Anonymous asked:

Noel, if your migraine continues, there's always the option of copying and pasting chatlogs to strip out the colors. No browser fuckery required! (I have never had a color-pain migraine. That sounds really weird to experience!)

Thankfully I VERY rarely get migraines. I would honestly still blame my colour sensitivity on light sensitivity. It's just how light reacts with certain colours, etc. I could have turned the screen entirely black and white without too much trouble, but f.lux dimming the lighting and lowering the contrast helped a lot (and I would miss colour too much, not going to lie)

...except when I tried to redline something for another artist. I went to floodill a colour layer over her art with white (for those not artistically inclined: this would make her image appear greyscale in a conveniently controlled way, so my drawing over the top would be more visible.) Instead I filled it with blinding aqua because I wasn't paying attention. I'm pretty sure the second half of my migraine was there ENTIRELY because of that one moment on accidentally converting her entire image into a nightmarish concoction of overly saturated eye searing blues. Herp, a derp. I was reading on the very, very tail end of of it, though, so I wasn't expecting Davesprite's orange to be bright enough to really bother me.

cakenstein asked:

oh my god noel sweetheart, u r so close to my favorite part im going to cRY ono

Haha, I think I am unfortunately at a point where any break in reading is causing multiple people to groan and go BUT SO CLOSE TO MY FAVORITE PART! (it's not like I want to stop, I promise!)

Anonymous asked:

Heh, don't worry so much about hurting our feelings. We're all veterans of the web, too. We can hack a little guff now and then. :)

It is something that has ALWAYS baffled me, but I've been told for years by friends that they found me really intimidating at times because I can be super blunt. (LAUGHS a friend - Lucy - told me that she thought I would probably make her cry if I was ever mad at her. I DONT MAKE PEOPLE CRY, LUCY WHY WOULD YOU FEEL THAT WAY??) And it's even worse on the internet, because the lack of tone in text, so I definitely struggle sometimes with the natural inclination to just tell someone to cut something out and also making sure I'm not accidentally seeming super aggressive for it. Especially since I don't know why that is threatening in the first place. I don't see a problem with telling someone that you have a problem with something! But not everyone is used to that, I get that.

This is probably why I like places like SA so much, haha.

Anonymous asked:

Hi, I was wondering, what exactly is up with your picture thing at the top of the sidebar? I mean I get that it's probably supposed to be you but are those antlers or what?? It has been confounding me for a while now so I just figured I'd finally get around to asking.

yyyy...yes. Those are antlers. I had to check the image to see what it was when I read this.

Something that drives corgi bananas is that I don't bother with the tumblr avatar/changing the default layout very much. It took me like a year on my personal blog, and I didn't bother with an icon over here until I was into act three or four? I probably still wouldn't have an icon except I drew a little not-a-comic about something, and corgi was like YOU SHOULD MAKE YOUR FACE YOUR FACE. So it's actually just cropped from something bigger, it wasn't ever meant to be an icon.

as for why there are antlers...

Corgi! how did that happen anyway (07:59:02) Noel BECAUSE I NEVER WANTED TO BE AN ANIMAL (07:59:28) Noel ARBOR WHATS YOUR FURSONA ARBOR I WANT TO DRAW YOU IN A GROUP PICTURE DO YOU HAVE AN ANIMAL AVATAR TO REPRESENT YOU ARBOR DO YOU HAVE A WOLF THAT LIVES IN YOUR HEART (07:59:29) Noel NO (07:59:30) Noel I DONT (07:59:36) Corgi! jkdsfhdskjfh (07:59:38) Noel I LIKE BEING ME (07:59:46) Noel I LIKE (07:59:47) Noel TREES (07:59:47) Corgi! but dont (07:59:49) Corgi! you have a wolf (07:59:51) Corgi! in ur hart (07:59:52) Noel AND DEER AND STUFF (07:59:55) Noel SO (08:00:02) Noel SOMEHOW IT JUST TURNED INTO YOU KNOW WHAT (08:00:03) Noel BAM (08:00:04) Noel ANTLERS (08:00:05) Noel ON A PERSON (08:00:06) Noel THATS ME (08:00:08) Noel SUDDENLY IM UNIQUE (08:00:11) Noel THERE YOU GO (08:00:13) Noel HAVE FUN (08:00:15) Corgi! ok for your next special occasion i'll get may to design you a deer fursona (08:00:42) Noel NOW I AM A PERSON AND I HAVE ANTLERS AND ANTLERS ARE P COOL I GUESS SO BAM DONE NO MORE TALK ABOUT SHINING DESU SPARKLY EYED WOLVES LIVING IN MY HEART NO

You get artist friends and you're all learning to draw together, and suddenly everyone but you is going through this phase where they are drawing themselves as animals (because most of us didn't know how to draw people yet, probably) and because you're friends, they want to draw you, too! Except you can't really picture yourself as an animal and then one day you apparently sprout antlers and that's you on the internet forever.

Antlers are really pretty so I'm not complaining.

bladekindeyewear asked: 2012-08-10 09:42

Wait a sec what is that IN YOUR NOT DAD IMAGE WHAT IS IN YOUR HAIR EEEEEEEEE *explodes from adorable and frightening coincidence you won't get yet*

CHINHANDS NOT SURE IF THIS IS ACTUALLY BLADEKINDEYEWEAR?

DID... did tumblr put someone else into your account or is this like the time that tumblr told me that all eight hundred messages in my inbox at the time were from me? I don't think I've ever seen you undignified, sir. ...madam?

you know, I really don't know what you are, actually. What's the gender neutral sir/madam alternative? This is tumblr, someone has to know.

Apparently chopsticks in hair is a Thing? I have no idea. Corgi looked at this message in the inbox, and then the pictures, and internet-grabbed my face, and then her face, and then rolled around on the floor for a while. I have no idea why, because I KNOW she's seen me put my hair up like that at least five times the first time I visited her. I guess I will find out eventually why this is so exciting for y'all.

Also this other message from you. Or doppleganger you:

bladekindeyewear asked:

Sorry! :c Many of us suffer from a condition I've termed "Engineer's Syndrome": The irrepressible urge to correct someone's mistakes or answer questions no matter how small they are, how facetiously they were made, or how soon the individual would have realized the answers on their own. I knew at once that you would get 30 messages to the same effect as my own "not dad" one, but alas, I was irrationally compelled to make sure!

You didn't... send in a message about that! Or if you did, tumblr ate it. Maybe I'm just paranoid but I still suspect imposter bladekindeyewear!

(Also it's okay. I think you guys are just extra hyped up about things because of the hiatus.)

Anonymous asked:

a very good post. don't be afraid to be a little authoritative with the ADD homestucks that follow you. i understand the frustration with a hundred people clamoring to be the first to tell you YOU'RE WRONG I KNOW THIS even when the next page gives the same reveal. just keep in mind that this is also a good thing- you are the VERY FIRST homestuck liveblog to draw this kind of attention or publicitiy. the very first!!! the most famous homestuck liveblog yet. maybe of any liveblog. good job :)

It's not so much that a lot of people told me the same thing - it's that a lot of people completely disregarded that it was something I would learn on the next page. I don't want that to become a trend! I'm ASSUMING it happened because people are particularly bored during the hiatus.

Finally got it, god