#bracts

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Monday 6 February 2023

Unusually Tillandsia cyanea (pink quill) is a member of the Bromeliad family that can be grown in a pot as well as an air plant. This epiphytic perennial produces a rosette of evergreen leaves with a flattened spikes of violet flowers.

Jill Raggett

#tillandsia #pinkquill #purpleflowers #epiphytes #bromeliad #bracts #houseplants #glasshouse #plants #writtledesign #horticulture

[awkwardbotany]

Randomly Selected Botanical Terms: Phyllaries

Flowers in the aster family have one of the most recognizable shapes in botany – a circle with a series of petals surrounding it. If you were asked to draw a flower, there is a good chance your drawing would look something like a sunflower, a daisy, a cosmos, or an aster. It’s one of the most basic flower shapes, and yet it isn’t a single flower; it’s a pseudanthium – a false flower. This is…

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#Asteraceae #blanketflower #botanical terminology #Botany #bracts #capitulum #Compositae #composites #curlycup gumweed #dandelion #florets #flower head #flowers #hoary tansyaster #involucre #Mexican sunflower #phyllaries #plant anatomy #plants #sunflower family

[falseandrealultravival]

Today's Haiku with Picture 684

Dokudami's

White flowers blooming in clusters

Not a flower

Bracts, not flowers. A versatile medicinal herb.

ドクダミの

群れ咲く白花

花ならず

花ではなく苞。万能の薬草。

(2023.05.19)

#dokudami #white flowers #bracts #A versatile medicinal herb #haiku #today's haiku with picture

[crudlynaturephotos]

#slipper plant #euphorbia bracteata #flowering succulents #bracts #euphorbiaceae #garden #getty center #los angeles

[talltalestogo]

Sun saucers

Saucers in the sun, /

dogwood bracts open to light, /

flutter in the breeze.

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#sun #saucer #dogwood #bract #light #breeze #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #wednesday #040324 #2024

#poem #poetry #haiku #photo #old north knoxville #david e. booker #wednesday #bracts #dogwood #sun #saucers #breeze #040324

[thehiddenedge-blog]

Wildlife Challenge day 19

A sweet heart hidden, Within bracts of a thistle – Becomes tonight’s tea! (Haiku) (Globe artichoke in back garden!) Inspired by the Wildlife Challenge. if you too would like to join in, this June. Click through here for the rules …

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#Bracts #Globe Artichoke #Haiku #Heart #JustOneThing #Poetry #Tea #Wildlife Challenge

[birdsy-purplefishes]

#MentzeliaInvolucrata / #SandBlazingstar, my new love. Check out those #BRACTS! White with a dark green edge and such a pretty shape. The flowers are gorgeous too. Ghost flower (Mohavea confertiflora, in the last photo) has evolved to mimic sand blazingstar. It lacks nectar of its own and relies on looking similar to the blazingstar with the addition of a marking in the center that (apparently) resembles a female bee. I can’t blame it. I would totally copy this flower’s good looks if I could. #mentzelia #blazingstar #loasaceae #californianativeplants #anzaborregodesertstatepark #anzaborrego (at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnOMib-uW6O/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#mentzeliainvolucrata #sandblazingstar #bracts #mentzelia #blazingstar #loasaceae #californianativeplants #anzaborregodesertstatepark #anzaborrego

[deborahleaguefineart]

Dramatic #wallart and #homedecor #falsebirdofparadise on black. #lobsterclawplant #heliconiarostrata #redflowers🌹 #tropicalflower #bracts #buyintoart #floralartwork #flowerartwork #wallartprintsforsale https://www.instagram.com/p/CfT7eZZACuR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#wallart #homedecor #falsebirdofparadise #lobsterclawplant #heliconiarostrata #redflowers🌹 #tropicalflower #bracts #buyintoart #floralartwork #flowerartwork #wallartprintsforsale

[coffeenuts]

#IFTTT #Flickr #euphorbiapulcherrima #christmasstar #plant #christmas #colour #design #studio #square #leaf #bract #pink #flowers #detail #poinsettia #festive #blackbackground #nikond7000 #magdaindigo

[buffetlicious]

I have been neglecting my succulents due to my work commitment. Anyway, here are my Echeverias blooming in unison, adding splashes of orange and yellow to the windowsill.

#Plant #Flora #Echeveria #Succulent #Cactus #Flower Spike #Inflorescence #Flower #Orange #Yellow #Blossom #Bract #Non-Food #Buffetlicious

[inthecityofgoodabode]

April 2022: Time In The Garden

We got a lot of work done in the backyard garden today. It was a nice day for it: 

#garden #backyard garden #flowers #chaste tree #house finch #male house finch #brunch #sausage #country ham #scrambled eggs #collard greens #storm cloud #baptisia #yellow baptisia #buckeye #buckeye bracts #peony #life in memphis

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 22 March 2023

Rosettes of toothed yellow-green bracts surround the tiny yellow flowers of Hacquetia epipactis (broad-leaved sanicle) as this low clump-forming perennial greets the early spring.

Jill Raggett

#Hacquetia #broad-leavedsanicle #greenflowers #yellowflowers #bracts #lowgrowing #plants #springflowering #writtledesign #gardens #horticulture #garden #suffolk #PlaceForPlants

[unravelingwires]

Bracted

Astra carefully pulled the petals off the bright white flower she was holding. He loves me; he loves me not. Well, technically they were bracts, not petals. Lara would care about the distinction. She wasn’t here, though.

He loves me; he loves me not. Astra didn’t know who he was, but he seemed particularly cruel. She’d lost three games in a row. On the other hand, it probably wasn’t his fault he didn’t love her. Astra glanced down at the flowers. Ending on “he loves me not” every time meant the petal number was even. Astra wondered if all the flowers had the same petal number. Lara would know. She wasn’t here, though. 

Astra heard footsteps behind her. She knew it would be Max. He was watching over her, she knew, because he thought that’s what Lara and Jaya would want. He loves me; he loves me not. Max was sweet. It was easy to see why Jaya got so attached to him, living in the same house for years. It could be hard to tell if he really cared about someone, though, or if he just felt obliged to be kind. When it came down to it, his politics made it clear his kindness had limits, whilst he’d fight forever for the people he cared about.

He loves me; he loves me not. Lara would have a sharp, insightful comment that made the world clear and obvious. She wasn’t here, though.

#“Bracted” is an adjective that describes a part of a plant surrounded by leaf- or scale-like parts #siblings #whatever you call the relationship between someone and the person their sibling was arranged to marry #astra and max have an interesting dynamic #they've known each other since they were kids #so they do care #but they're mostly connected through their relationships with other people #like. They played board games together when they were kids #and now they're on opposite sides of a war #but only astra is aware of it #my writing #creative writing #library of babel #unedited #original characters #my ocs #jayaverse

[talltalestogo]

“Sun saucers”

Sun saucers Saucers in the sun, / dogwood bracts open to light, / flutter in the breeze. . . #sun #saucer #dogwood #bract #light #breeze #poem #poetry #haiku #photo #haiga #oldnorthknoxville #davidebooker #march #wednesday #040324 #2024

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#040324 #April #bracts #breeze #David E. Booker #dogwood #haiga #haiku #Old North Knoxville #photo #poem #poetry #saucers #sun #Wednesday

[faguscarolinensis]

Bidens aristosa / Bearded Beggarticks on the American Tobacco Trail in Durham, NC

#Bidens #Bearded Beggarticks #Western tickseed #Long-bracted Beggarticks #Tickseed Beggarticks #Swamp marigold #Yankee lice #Native plants #Native flowers #Nature photography #photographers on tumblr #American Tobacco Trail #ATT #Durham #Durham NC #North Carolina #Flowers #Bidens aristosa

[rcannon992]

Swimming through thistles!

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#Bombus pascuorum #bract #Cirsium eriophorum #Common carder bees #floret #inflorescence #proboscis #thistle #woolly thistle