#invasive plant

[albertxylin]

Kudzu

Kudzu is invasive. It is an ever-growing expanse of leaves and vines, Blanketing landscapes in green powder snow as it consumes them. Its main predator is humans, Who use its leaves and fibres for textiles and food. That is, unless it is left alone to fester and spread, unmaintained.

My parents know it as gegen, A root used in traditional chinese medicine. There is no focus on the radiation of vegetation that infects an ecosystem, Just as I did not know its roots were thick and fat like yams. They joke that if people knew it was in our area they would dig them up and eat them all.

The kudzu annexes a suburb. I imagine another life where it is companion and provider, And not monster.

#2642 #infodumping to parents stuff I learned on tumblr #love me the plant/weed side of tumblr no joke #special shoutout to headspace hotel #kudzu #plant #invasive plant #writing #original poem #poetry #spoken word #poem #spoken word poetry #daily poem #poems

[katiajewelbox]

The beauty Buddleja - ecological hero 🦸🏻‍♀️ or villain 🦹🏿‍♂️? 

The Buddleja (Buddleja davidii) is native to central China and Japan before it was discovered by European botanists in the 19th century. The plant was brought to Europe in the 1880’s where it was an immediate success. Perhaps too successful... since the 1920’s it has started colonising habitat beyond suburban gardens in the UK. 

Let’s consider the villainous side of Buddleja first. The plants crowds out native plant species because it reproduces quickly and can colonise a wide range of habitats. This plant is not a food source for any know European butterflies. 

On the heroic side, this plant mostly takes over brownfield sites like abandoned buildings and other neglected urban spaces rather than established forests and meadows. The plant is a fantastic food source for native butterflies and other insects, and it blooms for a long period of time. 

Is the Buddleja a good guy or a bad guy? You decide!

#katia plant scientist #botany #invasive species #invasive plant #flowers #purple flowers #buddleja #buddleja davidii #butterfly #peacock butterfly #cottage garden #cottagecore #cottagecore aesthetic #summer cottage #meadow #summer meadow #asian plant #uk nature #plant ecology #ecology #ecosystems #hero or villain #urban nature #flower #summer flowers

[dragonfang-photography]

Spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe) and bee.

#Bruce Trail #Sydenham section #Niagara Escarpment #Bruce County #Ontario #Canada #hiking #hiking trail #forest #trees #wilderness #outdoors #Centaurea stoebe #spotted knapweed #pollinator #invasive plant #insect #flower #invertebrate #blossom #bee #flora #photography #digital photography #DSLR #Canon 6D #photographers on Tumblr

[streetsofdublin]

A SPLASH OF COLOUR AT THE BOTANIC GARDENS DURING STORM KATHLEEN

It should be mentioned that there is an ongoing debate surrounding Rhododendrons, especially their invasive nature in areas like Killarney National Park.

I VISITED ON SATURDAY 6 APRIL 2024 Battling the Wind at the Botanic Gardens Storm Kathleen’s winds were whipping through Dublin today, and even the National Botanic Gardens weren’t immune. I’d ventured out with dreams of capturing the beauty of the spring blooms – flowering trees, bushes, and shrubs in all their glory. The Botanic Gardens are renowned for their Rhododendrons, and I was…

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#Fotonique #gardens #Infomatique #invasive plant #National Botanic Gardens #persistent rain #plants #Public Park #Rhododendrons #shrubs #Sony FX30 #Storm Kathleen #trees #vibrant flowers #William Murphy

[geezerwench]

#science #time capsule #botany #MSU #Michigan State #michigan state university #moth mullein #invasive plant #invasive plants #Verbascum blattaria #seed bank #seed experiment

[winslowzcorner]

New art has been shared! Please go check it out! ^^

https://winslowzcorner.blogspot.com/2023/06/nodding-thistle.html

#digital #digital art #digital artwork #tablet art #tablet artwork #art #artwork #female artists #artists on twitter #artists on tumblr #thistle #nodding thistle #weed #invasive weed #invasive plant #invasive plants #plant #plant lovers #nature #nature art #nature lovers #olivia rain #winslow’s corner

[kizzer55555]

DP x DC: The Most Dangerous Card Game

Ok so Danny has essentially claimed earth as his. And he is fully aware that there are constant threats to the planet. Now he can’t stop a threat that originates on earth (that’s something he’ll leave to the Justice league) but he can do something about outside threats. Doing some research on ancient spells, rituals, and artifacts, he cast a world wide barrier on the planet to protect it from hostile threats so they cannot enter. This will prevent another Pariah Dark incident. However, barriers like this come at a price. You see, there are two ways to make a barrier. Either make one powered up by your own energy and power (which would be constantly draining) or set up a barrier with rules. The way magic works is that nothing can be absolutely indestructible. It must have a weakness. The most powerful barriers weren’t the ones reinforced with layer after layer of protective charms and buffed up with power. Those could eventually be destroyed either by being overpowered, wearing them down, or by cutting off the original power source. No, the most powerful barriers were the ones with a deliberate weakness. A barrier indestructible except for one spot. A cage that can only be opened from the outside. Or that can only be passed with a key or by solving a riddle. So Danny chooses this type of barrier and does the necessary ritual and pours in enough power to make it. And he adds his condition for anyone to enter. 

Now the Justice league? Find out about the barrier when Trigon attempts to attack, they were preparing after he threatened what he would do once he got to earth. How he would destroy them. The Justice league tried to take the fight to him first but were utterly destroyed, so they retreated home to tend to their injuries, and fortify earth for one. Last. Stand. Only when Trigon makes his big entrance…he’s stopped.

The Justice league watch in awe as this thin see-through barrier with beautiful green swirls and speckled white lights like stars apears blocking Trigon and his army’s advance. The barrier looks so thin and fragile yet no matter how hard the warlord hits, none of his attacks can get through and neither can he damage said barrier. That’s when Constantine and Zatanna recognizes what this barrier is. Something only a powerful entity could create. For a moment, the league is filled with hope that Trigon can’t get through yet Constantine also explains that it’s not impenetrable. And clearly Trigon knows this too for he calls out a challenge. 

And that’s when, in a flash of light, a tiny glowing teenager appears. He looked absolutly minuscule compared to Trigon and yet practically glowed with power (this isn’t a King Danny AU though).

And that is when the conditions for passing the barrier are revealed. And the Justice realize that the only thing stopping Trigon and his army from decimating earth. The only way he can get through….is by beating this glowing teenager in a card game. 

Not just any card game though. The most convoluted game Sam, Danny, and Tucker invented themselves. It’s like the infinite realms version of magic the gathering, combined with Pokémon, and chess. And Danny is the master. So sit down Trigon and let’s play.

(The most intense card game of the Justice league’s life).

After Danny wins, this happens a few more times with outer word beings and possibly even demons attempting to invade earth, yet none have been able to beat the mysterious teenager in a card game. Constantine might even take a crack at it and try to figure out how to play. He’s really bad though. Every time this happens, the Justice league worry that this might be the time the teenager looses. Yet every time, he wins (even if only barely). 

Meanwhile, Danny, Sam, and Tucker have gotten addicted to the game and play it almost daily. Some teachers might seem them playing the game are are like ‘awww how cute’ not realizing this game is literally saving the world. Jazz is just happy they aren’t spending as much time on their screens playing Doomed.

#DPxDC #dcxdp #Danny makes a card game to save the world. #Technically he worded the ritual so that they had to ‘beat’ him as those are the most powerful barriers and most reliable. #keys can just get lost or stolen (like the one to Pariah’s Coffin) #A riddle would be useless once someone figured out the answer. Like how no one takes the sphynx seriously anymore. #(Sorry Tuck. But it’s true). #And there is NO WAY Danny is just leaving a hole open for anyone to pass through. No thank you! #So…beating him. But it’s not like Danny wanted to fight so…he edited the ritual a TINY bit. Card games are good. Much less painful too. #Danny Tucker and Sam made the most complicated card game they could imagine. #It’s based on their strategies for fighting ghosts. Capturing them in thermoses. And MUCH based on a on field battle strategy. #It often requires spontaneous thinking on the spot. So Danny? In his ELEMNT. It doubles as practice for his actual ghost battles too. #They had SO much fun making this. #Sam added an entire series of plant cards that act as traps and healing ointments and duds that just take up the field. #Tucker added legitimate hyroglyphics combined with Latin as well as English and ghost speak. #Yes. You actually have to speak that language to play. With proper pronunciation. (Amity Parker’s think the three are talking gibberish.) #I headcanon Sam and Tucker are fluent in Ghost. #Constantine WILL figure this game out SO HELP HIM! #Some of the cards also have combinations related to constellations either in name or placement on the board. #By the way the board is based on a Hexagonal summoning circle with Rhunes along the edges #And the placement of the cards on the board and on what rhune MATTERS. #Also the cards move disintegrate and have certain abilities. Think of Harry Potter Wizard Chess. #But they are normal when Danny plays at school. This is just for ✨effect✨ Against invaders. #Danny faces multiple opponents. He also halts alien invasions. #While Danny COULD stop crime on earth he’s not sure how to fight a normal human and hold back so he sticks to ghosts. #The Justice league are going crazy trying to figure out who this entity is and after deep research are convinced this is some sort of #Ancient being who has protected earth for millenia. They have paintings on ruins and everything. #Danny is not aware they think this. #Raven starts praying to Danny as if he is a god and wrangles the other Teen Titans into doing so as well. Danny is still unaware of this. #Danny is not a King or an ancient. Just a very VERY strong ghost.

[slugmorelz]

12/23/23

#my pics #nature #night photography #beach #flash photography #these plants are so tall btw. look at the bricks in the sand for comparison #new york #phragmites #thank u to ppl who IDed them! didnt know they were invasive #original photography

[drenched-in-sunlight]

My theory on why Messmer is not allowed to live in Leyndell + Malenia who keeps trying to rope her siblings into her extreme gardening habit … 🌺☠️

#elden ring #malenia blade of miquella #messmer the impaler #godwyn the golden #miquella the unalloyed #queen marika the eternal #starscourge radahn #albi’s art #I have so many family shenanigans ideas *clutch head* #just a girl and her 28483839 toxic invasive plants

[somethingcorenotsure]

I think it's so adorable that early humans took wild gourds - a tiny fruit that hollows out as it dries, making it float - and decided to make something out of it

they thought the tiny fruit was so good that they bred it for thousands of years, making it larger to form into bowls and cups, and different shapes to become bottles and spoons

and musical instruments

And then, people took the hollow gourds they farmed, and they turned them into houses for birds. We adapted them into the perfect houses for birds, and now there are specific breeds of birdhouse gourd just for making into birdhouses

And humans dedicated gardening space and time and thousands of years of breeding to make the gourds so absolutely perfect for birds, that there is a species of bird that lives almost exclusively in them

#yes I KNOW i posted about this the other day but *crying* i just love plant domestication and the history of agriculture #and humanity's positive affect on the ecosystems we live in #mine #image IDs in alt text #hmm. I'm gonna tag this #permaculture #just to pspsps @ that community to look at how cool gourds are please everyone grow birdhouse gourds and give cavity nesters places to live #i don't think mine will become fully ripe before i get my first frost :( next year i need to start gourds indoors #i didn't want to grow them before because i didn't have much garden space but now i do and i need to grow all of them #i might be. a little obsessed with gourds. but also i saw a pair of purple martins flying by the road last year #and i had never seen one before then! and i need to see more of them #i have a few hundred barn swallows but i need more birds flying around my house. more!! #and also i have a ton of invasive cavity nesting species around here. house sparrows and starlings. #gotta make up for those things competing with native birds for nest dites #*sites #the invasive birds very often win :/ #that's why they're invasive #i really do need to start trapping them....

[tansypaws]

ok anon, leafpool for you

#be gay draw cats #leafpool #warriors #warrior cats #thunderclan #she has a moth #this was meant to be a simple doodle #it was.s…not #plant is chicory bc i like it and was sad to find out it’s an invasive in the US #composition on this is BAD

[froggyforest]

As garlic mustard is starting to show up, please remember that it's invasive in North America BUT native to Europe and Asia. So taking the whole plant is fine in America but not in Europe. I'm making this post in reference to last year's posts about war on garlic mustard. I've seen a post of someone who took the whole plants and they were European and learned that it's not invasive there. So do your research and forage safely and ethically.

#garlic mustard #foraging #solarpunk #plants #invasive plants #native plants #safe foraging #ecology #garlic mustard war #garlic mustard war 2023

[dragonfang-photography]

Spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe) and bee

#Bruce Trail #Sydenham section #Niagara Escarpment #Bruce County #Ontario #Canada #hiking #hiking trail #forest #trees #wilderness #outdoors #Centaurea stoebe #spotted knapweed #invasive plant #flower #blossom #vegetation #flora #bee #insect #invertebrate #photography #digital photography #DSLR #Canon 6D #photographers on Tumblr

[elektroskopik]

Artist teaches how to turn invasive Japanese knotweed into crafting material | TribLIVE.com

“We always think of trees when it comes to paper, but anything with fibers can be used to make paper,” said Pantone, owner of Knot Just Weeds in Braddock. “You can even use the fibers from dryer sheets to make it!”

On July 11, Pantone will be joined in Murrysville by members of ReImagine Turtle Creek to present “Crafting with Invasive Species,” where he will show participants how to use knotweed and create paper.

Pantone, who owns and operates Knot Just Weeds at an outdoor studio, said the best time to harvest knotweed is between the end of May and early July.

“You want to harvest stalks about the diameter of your finger,” he said. “I cut off all the side branches, strip the leaves, cut the stalks into about one or one-and-a-half-inch pieces, then I cook them down in a simple borax soap solution, which cooks everything out except the fibers.”

#japanese knotweed #knotweed #invasive plant #invasive species #invasive plants #plants #north america #paper #paper making #weeds #knot just weeds #art #diy #2022 #botany

[joy-haver]

Note to new foragers;

while you are learning about the species you want to harvest, also learn what sustainable harvesting looks like. Learn about invasive species management, and agroecology. A lot of people start with the book Braiding Sweetgrass, by Dr Robin Wall Kimmerer. It is approachable, and covers the Honorable Harvest really well. The Poor Proles Almanac podcast and Substack are both incredible sources of information as well.

In general, tho, you should start by knowing this:

- If a species is native, and especially if it is rare on the landscape, do what you can to encourage it. Don’t over harvest, clear away invasives around it, save and spread its seeds. Maybe even hand pollinate it if needed.

- If a species is not native, feel free to harvest much more of it. Discourage its spread, but you don’t necessarily need to remove every single one you see. For a very small select few non native species, a little bit of spreading can even be okay. But be sure you know what you are doing. In general, it is better to remove a non native species than to let it stay. Keep native seeds on you to replace them with. I carry around little dime bags of seeds.

- if a species is Invasive (not native & choking out native species) remove as much as you can without damaging the local ecology. For foraging this might mean you harvest a ton of yellow charlock, even more than you need, because you see it choking out wild lettuce. This is a good thing to do (at least where I am). Because the charlock will overtake everything. But if you start managing in other ways, like tarping or tilling or spraying, keep in mind that oftentimes the medicine can be worse than the disease. If you spray a field of charlock you don’t get wild lettuce, you get more charlock.

Anyways, good luck!

#foraging #agroecology #ecology #native plants #invasive species #braiding sweetgrass #poor proles

[headspace-hotel]

My opinions on invasive species are so complicated that no matter what opinion you have about them I will want to argue.

If you say "invasive species are a constructed category and not inherently evil" you unlock the part of me that rages about the impact of Bradford pears and honeysuckle bushes on my ecosystem.

If you say "Invasive species are bad and we have to get rid of them" you unlock the part of me that has a glowing admiration for Nature's ability to adapt and survive.

I don't really agree with "a species transported outside of its native environment is changing the ecosystem and that's bad" as a principle, because nature is constantly changing and there is no original unspoiled state of the ecosystem. However I don't trust this argument coming from somebody that hasn't spent hours and hours pulling wintercreeper or seen a forest understory sterilized by bush honeysuckle.

Oftentimes I believe that invasive species take over because a keystone species has been removed from the ecosystem. For example my hypothesis is that the destruction of the Canebrakes in the Southeastern USA made the region vulnerable to invasion.

I also think that the way the ecosystem is interacted with and managed by humans causes invasive species to invade

However ultimately I think each species and each individual region of Earth is its own unique case.

Kudzu for example is a food and fiber plant used and cultivated since ancient times in China. It is a mutualistic symbiont with humans, with both of our species strongly contributing to the survival and thriving of the other. Kudzu must be controlled by harvest and use by humans; since using it for food, medicine, and clothes has declined, it has begun to show invasive behavior IN CHINA, WHERE IT IS NATIVE

Dandelion is a weed that is mostly confined to ecosystems very heavily disturbed by humans, and it has strongly positive effects on those ecosystems. It is also a mutualistic symbiont with humans.

Amur honeysuckle, Lonicera maackii is an incredibly virulent invasive species in Southeastern USA forests, virtually destroying all other plant biodiversity in the understory where it grows. The cause of this is pretty simple, Arundinaria gigantea a keystone species was removed, and regular controlled burns were stopped when Native Americans were forced off their land. Thus there was a niche left gaping wide open in the ecosystem.

A. gigantea (river cane), our native bamboo, has the property of forming ridiculously dense clonal colonies in damp lowland areas. The Southeastern USA invasives that are majorly problematic seem to have similar habits. A. gigantea is also disturbance dependent, particularly loving fire, but these days you mostly find it in vacant lots and along fence rows. Similarly most of our invasives need a moderate disturbance level to take over. The trouble is that A. gigantea is nearly wiped out through much of its range, and rarely reproduces sexually, so it can't spread like the invasives can.

Each plant has to be understood as its own unique living creature with its own way.

I desperately want to learn about Pyrus calleryana in its native habitat and learn the ways of this plant, as I don't understand it yet...

#plants #invasive species