Endemic to east-central Missouri and south-west Illinois, this trillium species can be found growing in woods with rich soils and on rocky slopes. It blooms in mid to late spring and there are lookalike trilliums; however, T. viride has a characteristic unique only to it - tiny, yet visible stomata that look like white dots all over the top of its leaves.
original text by @yaldabaothadeez and @wintersoldierfell can be found here, with the inciting incident by @baddywronglegs here. the image was posted on my patreon @/magpiecrown a month later and is now revealed to the rest of the internet <3
The Palestinian crocodile went extinct during the British Mandate period of Palestine, it’s last traceable rhetorical circulation to 1935. Here, the crocodile represents the ecological damage of colonialism in Palestine’s indigenous wildlife, which extends to modern day occupied Palestine. [further reading].