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misfit-herbologist · 3 years

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1) Tulips

2) Crocus, Iris, Lily

Hand-coloured engravings (1613) taken from ‘Hortus Eystettensis’ by Basil Besler (German, 1561 - 1629).

Images and text information courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art.

#flowers #plants #the queue continuum

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misfit-herbologist · 3 years

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Oh, look at those lovely green baby leaves!

My blackthorn is doing spectacularly, @misfit-herbologist !

#hp rp #herbology #blackthorn #calleo bricriu

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misfit-herbologist · 3 years

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professors of hogwarts 🧙🏼‍♀️🧙🏼‍♂️

Art by Vladislav Pantic

#art #vladislav pantic #the queue continuum

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misfit-herbologist · 3 years

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Oh, that is marvellous!

My blackthorn cutting is getting its first leaves (and already has good roots) and my two elderwood trees both look like they're in a gangly teenager phase.

@misfit-herbologist

#plants #herbology #blackthorn #elder wood #hp rp #calleo bricriu

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misfit-herbologist · 3 years

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I-- On a second look, I think that may actually be a radish?

!!!

@misfit-herbologist what is this, apart from roughly the size of a child’s skull?

Don’t ask, that was the first size comparison that came to mind.

#calleo bricriu

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misfit-herbologist · 3 years

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Oh, that is just a turnip - albeit, a very large one!

!!!

@misfit-herbologist what is this, apart from roughly the size of a child’s skull?

Don’t ask, that was the first size comparison that came to mind.

#plant #hp rp

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misfit-herbologist · 4 years

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Oh... No, thank you.

Anyway, I would ask the Muggle who gave you the cuttings if she did anything with them already. Otherwise, just care for them for a couple of months in the pots and they should be all right.

@misfit-herbologist What do I do with these?

They're cuttings--putting the relatively bad luck of doing that aside, the old Muggle said she's been growing them for decades and often gives away cuttings to people she likes--from that massive 15m Elder tree that's always dropping flower bits, leaves, and berries into my front yard.

I guess I wasn't supposed to be letting birds eat them. The berries, I mean.

So she's gone and made two entirely new, smaller ones from pieces of the bigger one and if I could just stick them in the ground it'd be fine, but they're...new? Something about the roots needing to be well kept, so, as a potted indoor plant for at least two years.

They look like they're waving at me. It's weird.

#hp rp

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misfit-herbologist · 4 years

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It is a process known as striking and is an ancient and is technically cloning, since the cuttings, while being their own individual plants, are exactly like their parent plant. It is like if you cut off a finger and it grew into a child. Imagine that!

Anyway! If she gave you the cuttings already in pots then she has likely treated the soil properly to coax the plants to release roots. Once they are strong enough they can be placed into the ground. Another way to coax roots is to place the cuttings into just water; however, those roots will be comparatively weaker and require a bit more time for them to strengthen and adapt to life in soil.

The new roots look like this, by the way. Fascinating, is it not?

@misfit-herbologist What do I do with these?

They're cuttings--putting the relatively bad luck of doing that aside, the old Muggle said she's been growing them for decades and often gives away cuttings to people she likes--from that massive 15m Elder tree that's always dropping flower bits, leaves, and berries into my front yard.

I guess I wasn't supposed to be letting birds eat them. The berries, I mean.

So she's gone and made two entirely new, smaller ones from pieces of the bigger one and if I could just stick them in the ground it'd be fine, but they're...new? Something about the roots needing to be well kept, so, as a potted indoor plant for at least two years.

They look like they're waving at me. It's weird.

#hp rp #(ps image from wikicommons)#(i do actually have a few cuttings of little....palm things but they're fresh so no baby roots to show off yet)

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misfit-herbologist · 4 years

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I am so, so sorry for replying late to this, I got a bit busy and before I realised it was already the weekend.

And I think you just have to wait about two months or so for their roots to grow and strengthen enough for transplanting into an outdoor garden. However, if the Muggle who gave you these included different instructions, I would suggest following those.

Or was there something more specific you needed assistance with?

@misfit-herbologist What do I do with these?

They're cuttings--putting the relatively bad luck of doing that aside, the old Muggle said she's been growing them for decades and often gives away cuttings to people she likes--from that massive 15m Elder tree that's always dropping flower bits, leaves, and berries into my front yard.

I guess I wasn't supposed to be letting birds eat them. The berries, I mean.

So she's gone and made two entirely new, smaller ones from pieces of the bigger one and if I could just stick them in the ground it'd be fine, but they're...new? Something about the roots needing to be well kept, so, as a potted indoor plant for at least two years.

They look like they're waving at me. It's weird.

#hp rp #(wow hi im a scatterbrain lately)

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misfit-herbologist · 4 years

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Vasiliy, I need you to teach me how to make a thing. You free? It's plant related, I swear.

As long as it is not...dangerous? I have time, yes.

#hp rp #calleo briciu #calleo-bricriu

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misfit-herbologist · 4 years

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“I am notso familiar with lichen that I know why they have flowers sometimes, unfortunately. Though there are insects that eat them. Perhaps some of that helps spread the pores. Or, conversely, keep things away since it may look poisonous?”

“Maybe you would like to borrow one of my books on the topic? And certainly, I always have room in my gardens for new friends,” Vasiliy said with a smile.

You Like Lichen?

#calleo bricriu #hp rp

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misfit-herbologist · 4 years

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“They...do not burrow, no.” Vasiliy shook his head. “They just grow on top. The wood just rots on its own and lichen does not break stone and rock down either.”

“And the red part would be, well, considered its flower but it is not like-- Not like a bloom? A blossom? It spreads its spores through that.”

You Like Lichen?

#lichen #herbology #hp rp #calleo bricriu

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misfit-herbologist · 4 years

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Vasiliy was taken a little off guard by the smack but, seeing as Calleo was unharmed, relaxed a little. He then nodded to Tadeusz. “Ah, that is a good point. I will try to rephrase it into some...simpler terminology?”

He took a drink of his own tea and looked to Calleo again, only continuing once he looked to be sort of composed.

“I suspect that lichens have something akin to rhizoids in moss--” No, nope, scary words again. “Ah-- Something like... Hm. Okay. Moss has something that is almost roots, more like little hairs that claps onto and into little holes and rough surfaces of rocks and stone. Lichen are not moss but they may have some similar properties like that. If not little hairs that cling to things, then perhaps just a naturally sticky base that seeps into the pores and crevices.”

“And as for lichen being a composite... If seeing it as fungus and algae being flatmates helps the visual, then that is likely a good enough analogy? They require each other to survive and also use each other to live and grow.”

You Like Lichen?

#hp rp #herbology #private #calleo bricriu

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misfit-herbologist · 4 years

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“Most plants and fungi just require the right environment and nutrients. Even the ones in my gardens and greenhouses share spaces with non-magical plants without any issue. It is also very likely that this lichen just happens to prefer this rock over others, or it managed to spread itself onto it more than over other places.”

“There are some plants that do better in magically influenced environments,” Vasiliy continued, “but those are typically just helped with some magic sustaining their preferring living arrangements. Much like you have set up the, um…” He doesn’t finish the sentence and just turns to inspect the rock.

“Lichen, and other fungi, are not really the types of organisms that soak up anything like you are suggesting. Those would require roots and these typically just grow on top of wood and stones.”

“Huh, that could be it, I mean–the place does have magical energy all over it, not the best sort, but I can be a little critical in that regard. Lichen probably doesn’t care.” Calleo snickered, “At this rate if I don’t watch it the walls’ll just be lichen–I mean, rock underneath it, but still…”

“This piece had been broken off too and was sitting on the ground; must’ve had some on it when it fell.”

Calleo sort of…stared between Vasiliy and the lichen for a long time, trying to wrap his head around what had just been said, “How do they–if they haven’t got roots, how do they grab onto anything? How do they even eat? They do eat, right? That’s a thing–that is a thing all plants do, isn’t it?”

That barrage of questions seemed genuinely confused and Calleo now might as well have been looking at three lumps of alien creatures on Vasily’s kitchen table.

“Ah, well--” Vasiliy was a little caught off guard by Calleo shooting off a half a dozen questions and it takes him a moment to compose himself before going into full herbalist mode.

“Well, as I mentioned earlier, lichen are a composite organism, and a bit of a complicated one at that. They have what you can call a symbiotic relationship between fungus and either photosynthetic algae or a cyanobacteria. The fungus acts as a base structure in this and the other part is the more plant-like looking growth. And like fungi, they reproduce with spores.”

“Since they do not have roots, and do not need roots, they have almost no limit on where they can grow and thrive as long as there is not too much sunlight.”

You Like Lichen?

#lichen #herbology #hp rp #private #calleo bricriu

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misfit-herbologist · 4 years

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“Most plants and fungi just require the right environment and nutrients. Even the ones in my gardens and greenhouses share spaces with non-magical plants without any issue. It is also very likely that this lichen just happens to prefer this rock over others, or it managed to spread itself onto it more than over other places.”

“There are some plants that do better in magically influenced environments,” Vasiliy continued, “but those are typically just helped with some magic sustaining their preferring living arrangements. Much like you have set up the, um...” He doesn’t finish the sentence and just turns to inspect the rock.

“Lichen, and other fungi, are not really the types of organisms that soak up anything like you are suggesting. Those would require roots and these typically just grow on top of wood and stones.”

You Like Lichen?

#herbology #lichen #hp rp #private #calleo bricriu

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misfit-herbologist · 4 years

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“Hmm. I suppose that would make sense as to how they got over here. I mean-- I do have exotic specimens myself but I usually do not just find them in my garden without having put them there myself.”

Vasiliy finally took a more proper look at the magic rock and the lichen on it after Calleo had divulged a bit more information about it. Really, he could’ve just asked but with what his friend seems to get himself into he was a little afraid to.

“I am not sure if the magical properties themselves really have too much to do with the lichen preferring this rock over other less magical rocks but-- Maybe that gives the rocks a sort of different base or vibration or something?”

You Like Lichen?

#herbology #hp rp #private #calleo bricriu

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misfit-herbologist · 4 years

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Short notice was not Vasiliy’s cup of tea but he at least appreciated Calleo’s effort in letting him know and not just materialising unannounced in his kitchen as his sister occasionally does. Thankfully, he also enjoyed when his friends, the few that he has, took an interest in plants and it just about cancelled out any social anxiety he may have had from the abrupt visitation.

Vasiliy had just got some tea brewing when the knock came at the door. It only took a moment for him to answer it. He looked about as tired as he always did but his hair actually appeared to have been brushed for once, and the rest of him just look appropriately cosy.

“Ah, Calleo! Hello there,” he greeted his friend with a gentle smile. “I didn’t expect you to be this excited about lichen. Come in, come in.”

Before he stepped inside, Calleo took a look around the immediate inside area for Tadeusz; it wasn’t that he disliked Tadeusz, more that he got the feeling the other Wizard would prefer not to see him outside of work. Or worse, at work.

Calleo, strangely enough, looked roughly the same, although the state of his hair might have had something to do with the fact that it was the weekend and that was typically when he set about making it look presentable for the first half of the work week.

“Thought you’d find it interesting, not only because it’s lichen–or maybe because it’s lichen?” As he followed Vasiliy back to the kitchen he most certainly tried to avoid eye contact with the cat he was sure was not a cat (but that–really was nothing more than a cat) and to make certain he at least acknowledged Tadeusz if he happened to be around.

“It’s all from the same–ah–is it one plant? Series of plants. Admittedly, about all I know about it is that you can grind it up with water and paint it onto things, I’m not even sure if it’s technically a plant at all.” He paused, “Or–no, wait, that’s moss isn’t it? Or maybe both?”

“The thing is,” Calleo sat down at the kitchen table not really bothering to wait for an invitation as he’d always just gone with it being an implied invitation anyway. “The thing that I thought you’d find interesting, is that the cluster on this bit here,” Calleo pointed to the nearly obscured black stone, “seems to grow the most dense cover in general.”

“I’m reasonably sure the other two are just normal amounts for rotting wood and old rocks, but that other one is stone that specifically siphons magic!”

It likely wasn’t the lichen at all that Calleo found exciting but, rather, what it seemed to grow best on; the lichen just happened to get caught up in that excitement and he was certain Vasiliy’s excitement would be the exact opposite.

“A composite organism, yes,” Vasiliy said as he poured them each a cup of tea as well as a third cup. He set the two cups on the little kitchen table by the window where his guest was sat with his lichen specimens. “Ah, one moment, please.”

He then took the third cup and left the kitchen for a couple of moments to deliver the tea to his partner, who was likely just waiting Calleo’s visit out. It didn’t take Vasiliy long to return though and he took a seat at the table as well, appearing to have took a book with him along the way.

“Lichen are fungi, so not exactly plants-- Cladonia cristatella, you said?” Vasiliy asked, somewhat interrupting himself, as he flipped through the book, which had some mushrooms decorated in embroidery along the spine. “Hmm...”

Vasiliy raised his brows in a bit of surprise and looked back up at Calleo. “It appears you have a foreigner growing on your rocks. This friend is native to the Americas.” He seemed to have completely missed the magic-siphoning rock aspect to the whole thing--for now at least.

You Like Lichen?

#hp rp #herbology #private #calleo bricriu

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