Types of Anxie-trees by @gemmacorrell
By Gemma Correll, via My Modern Met.
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Tag: botany
January 11, 2016
Papercraft Viola tricolor botanical specimen. #beautiful
Wiki entry on the plant here: also known for having many many interesting common names (heartsease, heart’s ease, heart’s delight, tickle-my-fancy, Jack-jump-up-and-kiss-me, come-and-cuddle-me, three faces in a hood, or love-in-idleness)
By Kogami Yoko.
April 29, 2014
Cross section micrograph of a lily’s flower bud is stunning.
One of the winners of the 2014 Wellcome Image Awards. By Spike Walker.
January 16, 2014
Yarn art or botanical samples? You be the judge.
By Ruth Marshall (top image) and Tatyana Yanishevsky (bottom 2), via My Modern Met. Hat tip to Emily Jenkins.
November 8, 2013
July 4, 2013
Awesome vintage plant anatomy pictures.
“Arnold Dodel (1843-1908) was a Swiss-German botanist who held professorships at Swiss universities where he studied plant reproduction and algal species and he founded a botanical microscopy laboratory at the University of Zurich.
Dodel was a prolific author of popular educational works on plants and an enthusiastic supporter of socialism. He was a regular correspondent with the eminent German biologist-artist, Ernst Haeckel, as well as Charles Darwin. Dodel was an early and vocal advocate for the Theory of Evolution (see).
Dodel married Carolina Port in 1875 and she contributed a large number of the illustrations to the series displayed above. He was subsequently known as Arnold Dodel-Port.” (Text from BibliOdyssey)
Art by Arnold Dodel (and Caroline Port) (see above). From BibliOdyssey, via Fresh Photons
May 15, 2013
How about a house where the walls are made of vegetation?
“The “Green box” project rises as the renovation of a small disused garage, accessory to a weekend house situated on the slopes of the Raethian Alps. A structure realized with lightweight metal galvanized profiles and steel wires wraps the existent volume and transforms it into a tridimensional support for the climbing vegetation. It is composed mainly by deciduos vegetation: Lonicera periclymenum and Polygonum baldshuanicum for the main texture on which climb up the secondary texture of Humulus lupulus and Clematis tangutica. On the basement there are groups of herbaceous perennials (Centranthus ruber, Gaura Lindheimeri, Geranium sanguineum, Rudbekia triloba) alternate with annual ones (Cosmos bipinnatus,Tagetes tenuifolia, Tropaeolum majus, Zinnia tenuifolia) and bulbous to ensure a light but continuos flowering.”
Project and text by act_romegialli, via Colossal
April 26, 2013
Happy Arbor Day! Here are some Phylo tree cards!
From Wikipedia:
“Arbor Day (from the Latin arbor, meaning tree) is a holiday in which individuals and groups are encouraged to plant and care for trees. It originated in Nebraska City, Nebraska, United States by J. Sterling Morton. The first Arbor Day was held on April 10, 1872 and an estimated one million trees were planted that day. Many countries now observe a similar holiday. Though usually observed in the spring, the date varies, depending on climate and suitable planting season.”
Download the cards here (scroll to bottom of post).
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