Create accountLogin

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Not available on liberdon.com.
liberdon.com is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Liberdon is an instance for libertarians, ancaps, anarchists, voluntaryists, agorists, etc to sound off without fear of reprisal. It was created in the wake of the Great Twitter Cullings of 2018.

Administered by:

Server stats:

209
active users

liberdon.com: AboutProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.3.6

#plants

56 posts33 participants6 posts today
Continued thread
Public
J blue

It might be a little confusing but there are two Aralia species in Japanese cuisine that have two similar edible relatives in North America.

Aralia cordata (udo) - Aralia racemosa
Aralia elata (taranome) - Aralia spinosa

Unlike cordata, the stalks of racemosa are too thin and fibrous while young but the leaves are edible.

#料理#cooking#plants
Public
J blue

Aralia spinosa, devil’s walking stick 🧵

Please don’t flame me for growing this plant. The #pollinators love it and the leaves taste nice (slightly minty asafoetida).

Bark, roots and unripe berries can cause contact dermatitis and/or allergies. Ripe berries are mildly toxic in large quantities besides not tasting very good.

A close-up of a budding plant featuring vibrant green and reddish-brown leaves, set against a blurred background of leaves and grass.
A close-up view of a thorny tree trunk surrounded by sparse vegetation and twigs. The trunk has numerous sharp thorns protruding from its surface.
A terracotta colored plant dish with some soil and two small green plants leaning on the side. The dish is placed on a concrete surface.
#NativePlants#gardening#plants
Public
DeeAnn Little

I'm preparing another batch of growing medium (mix of peat and perlite). If you are new to growing carnivores, you might not know yet that the medium should be soaked and rinsed before planting. If you plant in dry medium and then water it, it may repel the water (see pic 3 where it is floating on top of the water). I'm using one of @mfeilner 's fermentation jars and periodically shaking it, breaking up barky chunks and letting it set in a warm room.

#CarnivorousPlants #Plants @plants

Bag of growing medium for carnivorous plants, a glass fermentation jar and a water filtration pitcher on a wooden table.
Dry growing medium in the fermentation jar.
Water added to the fermentation jar, the medium is repelling the water and has floated to the top.
After shaking, it is better mixed but it must be repeated several times and kept in a warm room so the medium absorbs the water.
Public *
DeeAnn Little

Cleaned up and moved the dormant Drosera paradoxa (sundew) into a new pot. It's in an open glass container until the ambient humidity in this room goes up. This one came out of dormancy mid going into late March last year (see link at layer8.space/@chillicampari/11), but it can vary. As I am doing with a few other plants, I top dressed it with chopped fresh sphagnum moss that I keep in a jar.

#CarnivorousPlants #SavageGarden #florespondence #Mosstodon #Plants @plants

Small Drosera Paradoxa in hibernation. The old traps have been trimmed off and it is in a fresh pot with a top dressing of sphagnum moss.
Small Drosera Paradoxa in a white pot in a larger glass container under grow lights on a shelf with other carnivorous plants.
Hand holding up a dormant Drosera Paradoxa showing the very small root system.
Dormant Drosera Paradoxa with a green hibernacula and old dried up traps and flower stems.
Public
earthling

姫踊子草 [Himeodorikosō]
Lamium purpureum

姫 [Hime] : Princess; young lady of noble birth
踊子|踊り子 [Odoriko] : Dancing girl
草 [Sō] : Grass, herb

Native to Europe, it is unknown when and how it came to Japan, but it was confirmed to be wild in the mid-Meiji period (1868-1912).

via konjaku

#plants
#Japanese

踊子草(L. album var. barbatum) is named for the way the flowers surround the upright stem with their backs, resembling dancing girls. Himeodorikosō is in the same genus as that, but is much smaller in size and has shorter stems, so the upper parts of the stems look like something else before the leaves begin to open.
Public
DeeAnn Little

A change of plans resulted in me starting spring replanting this week instead of later, but I prepared the Venus Flytrap seedlings from 2023 for their first year outdoors (see link for original seeding). The germination cups were getting kind of ick anyway. There are also some Pinguicula Weser/Butterwort divisions in the second pic I replanted today. Most carnivorous plants do best when replanting while still dormant.

#CarnivorousPlants #florespondence #Plants @plants
layer8.space/@chillicampari/11

Several very small Venus Flytrap in a white pot.
Small Venus Flytraps and Butterwords in a small indoor greenhouse.
Closeup of small Venus Flytrap showing the rhizome.
Very small Venus Flytraps in germination cups with dried moss around them.
ExploreLive feeds
About