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plant-taxonomy-showdown · 15 days

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A peak inside the Eudicots:

The largest group of flowering plants

Two of the largest groups within Eudicots are the Rosids and the Asterids, named after two of their more famous families (the rose family and the aster or sunflower family.)

The Asterids include: Ericales (an eclectic order that includes tea, kiwi fruit, and shea nuts), Lamiids (that's not a typo -- includes olives, coffee, the mint family, and the nightshade family), and Campanulids (includes the sunflower family, the carrot family, dandelions, and artichokes.)

The two main groups within the Rosids are the Malvids and the Fabids. (Plus the order that includes grapes, Vitales.)

Fabids include melons, squashes, beans and peas, the rose family (which contains apples, strawberries, cherries, and almonds), and oaks. And weed.

Malvids include cacao (chocolate!), sugar maples (maple syrup), citrus fruits, poison ivy, cotton, wasabi, cabbage, and many more.

But that's not all, there's also the basal Eudicots (poppies, the lotus flower), and some core Eudicots that aren't Asterids or Rosids, like Saxifragales (peonies, gooseberries, currants), Santales (sandalwood, mistletoe), and Caryophyllaes (cacti, Venus fly traps, carnations, buckwheat, ice plant, and tumbleweed.)

By the way, if it ends in -ales? You'll see it in the Order round. If it ends in -ids? Those are all clades that do not conform to the traditional kingdom-phylum-etc system. I think they're very cool to learn about so I wanted to mention them here! But they're not catagories that are part of the tournament, we're skipping past a ton of ways of dividing plants between Class and Order.

#behind the scenes

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plant-taxonomy-showdown · 15 days

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The Eudicots have triumphed!!!!

Stick around for the Order round! There's 44 of them, so I will need some time to pull it all together. It'll be a lot of fun! Vitales and Ericales and Sapindales, oh my!

#update

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plant-taxonomy-showdown · 15 days

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There are over 40 orders within eudicots. Oh no.

Class Final Round!! Eudicots vs Monocots!

Grass (slang) vs Grass (literal)

Eudicots (“true dicots”): This is a ginormous class, containing almost all leafy trees, quite a lot of plants that humans get food from (including potatoes and all of the legumes), and the plants we get tea, coffee, and chocolate from. It also contains carnivorous plants, parasitic plants, and some very poisonous plants, as well as tobacco and cannabis.

Monocots: The second largest taxon in Magnoliophyta, with 70,000 species. Narrow leaves with parallel veins are a good sign you’re looking at a monocot, as are plants that grow from bulbs, like onions, garlic, and tulips. Do you need to touch grass? Monocot. Do you want to bake a cake? Wheat, sugar cane, and the orchids that produce vanilla extract are all monocots.

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plant-taxonomy-showdown · 16 days

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Poll ends tomorrow!

Class Final Round!! Eudicots vs Monocots!

Grass (slang) vs Grass (literal)

Eudicots (“true dicots”): This is a ginormous class, containing almost all leafy trees, quite a lot of plants that humans get food from (including potatoes and all of the legumes), and the plants we get tea, coffee, and chocolate from. It also contains carnivorous plants, parasitic plants, and some very poisonous plants, as well as tobacco and cannabis.

Monocots: The second largest taxon in Magnoliophyta, with 70,000 species. Narrow leaves with parallel veins are a good sign you’re looking at a monocot, as are plants that grow from bulbs, like onions, garlic, and tulips. Do you need to touch grass? Monocot. Do you want to bake a cake? Wheat, sugar cane, and the orchids that produce vanilla extract are all monocots.

#reminders

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plant-taxonomy-showdown · 17 days

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Science! And Eudicot cropaganda!

Class Final Round!! Eudicots vs Monocots!

Grass (slang) vs Grass (literal)

Eudicots (“true dicots”): This is a ginormous class, containing almost all leafy trees, quite a lot of plants that humans get food from (including potatoes and all of the legumes), and the plants we get tea, coffee, and chocolate from. It also contains carnivorous plants, parasitic plants, and some very poisonous plants, as well as tobacco and cannabis.

Monocots: The second largest taxon in Magnoliophyta, with 70,000 species. Narrow leaves with parallel veins are a good sign you’re looking at a monocot, as are plants that grow from bulbs, like onions, garlic, and tulips. Do you need to touch grass? Monocot. Do you want to bake a cake? Wheat, sugar cane, and the orchids that produce vanilla extract are all monocots.

#propaganda #Eudicot propaganda #cropaganda #dicotaganda

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plant-taxonomy-showdown · 19 days

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#this is tragic monocots deserve to win#palms!! grasses!! bulbs!!#like even just orchids make this worth voting for#most grains and staple food also#vote monocots now!!!

-- @vanillasaur

Class Final Round!! Eudicots vs Monocots!

Grass (slang) vs Grass (literal)

Eudicots (“true dicots”): This is a ginormous class, containing almost all leafy trees, quite a lot of plants that humans get food from (including potatoes and all of the legumes), and the plants we get tea, coffee, and chocolate from. It also contains carnivorous plants, parasitic plants, and some very poisonous plants, as well as tobacco and cannabis.

Monocots: The second largest taxon in Magnoliophyta, with 70,000 species. Narrow leaves with parallel veins are a good sign you’re looking at a monocot, as are plants that grow from bulbs, like onions, garlic, and tulips. Do you need to touch grass? Monocot. Do you want to bake a cake? Wheat, sugar cane, and the orchids that produce vanilla extract are all monocots.

#propaganda #cropaganda #monocot propaganda #also target audience sweet

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plant-taxonomy-showdown · 19 days

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petition to re-tag the propaganda posts as cropaganda

Your suggestion will be taken under advisement. It will be sent to the Great Counsel of Competitive Botanists, who will debate on it at their next meeting.

#unreality #puns always welcome #he he cropaganda he he

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plant-taxonomy-showdown · 21 days

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Tags:

#for garlic and the bread we put it on #for caramelized onions #for orchids and lilies and daffodils #for vanilla extract #for tortillas and bread #vote monocots!

from @tinyyellowflowers-blog

#GRASS GRASS GRASS GRASS#also PALMS PALMS PALMS PALMS

from @ploridafanthers

#eudicots babyyyy #coffee #tea #carnivorous *and* parasitic?#*and* weed and tobacco? #how can you top that

from @noticeskouhai

#gotta go with my bae sugar snaps

from @that-jack-kline-bestie

#YIPPEE!! #man no idea who to vote for! maybe dandelion!!??

from @fishyfishyfishtimes

#sighing loudly as i pick eudicots as they contain carnivorous plants#and a bunch of other families i really like#but monocots.... orchids my beloved..... im so sorry.........

from @tarrot-patch

#obviously I went with the option that gave me potatoes tea coffee and chocolate

from @serotonin-up

Class Final Round!! Eudicots vs Monocots!

Grass (slang) vs Grass (literal)

Eudicots (“true dicots”): This is a ginormous class, containing almost all leafy trees, quite a lot of plants that humans get food from (including potatoes and all of the legumes), and the plants we get tea, coffee, and chocolate from. It also contains carnivorous plants, parasitic plants, and some very poisonous plants, as well as tobacco and cannabis.

Monocots: The second largest taxon in Magnoliophyta, with 70,000 species. Narrow leaves with parallel veins are a good sign you’re looking at a monocot, as are plants that grow from bulbs, like onions, garlic, and tulips. Do you need to touch grass? Monocot. Do you want to bake a cake? Wheat, sugar cane, and the orchids that produce vanilla extract are all monocots.

#propaganda

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plant-taxonomy-showdown · 22 days

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420 propaganda!

Class Final Round!! Eudicots vs Monocots!

Grass (slang) vs Grass (literal)

Eudicots (“true dicots”): This is a ginormous class, containing almost all leafy trees, quite a lot of plants that humans get food from (including potatoes and all of the legumes), and the plants we get tea, coffee, and chocolate from. It also contains carnivorous plants, parasitic plants, and some very poisonous plants, as well as tobacco and cannabis.

Monocots: The second largest taxon in Magnoliophyta, with 70,000 species. Narrow leaves with parallel veins are a good sign you’re looking at a monocot, as are plants that grow from bulbs, like onions, garlic, and tulips. Do you need to touch grass? Monocot. Do you want to bake a cake? Wheat, sugar cane, and the orchids that produce vanilla extract are all monocots.

#Eudicot propaganda #propaganda #class

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plant-taxonomy-showdown · 22 days

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#i went w eudicots personally but monocots are fantastic too#🌸💮🏵🌹🌺🌻🌼🌳🌵🍁

Eudicot emoji propaganda from @gray-warden !

Class Final Round!! Eudicots vs Monocots!

Grass (slang) vs Grass (literal)

Eudicots (“true dicots”): This is a ginormous class, containing almost all leafy trees, quite a lot of plants that humans get food from (including potatoes and all of the legumes), and the plants we get tea, coffee, and chocolate from. It also contains carnivorous plants, parasitic plants, and some very poisonous plants, as well as tobacco and cannabis.

Monocots: The second largest taxon in Magnoliophyta, with 70,000 species. Narrow leaves with parallel veins are a good sign you’re looking at a monocot, as are plants that grow from bulbs, like onions, garlic, and tulips. Do you need to touch grass? Monocot. Do you want to bake a cake? Wheat, sugar cane, and the orchids that produce vanilla extract are all monocots.

#eudicot propaganda #propaganda #class

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plant-taxonomy-showdown · 22 days

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#ok team we’re gonna vote monocots#obviously I have a team that definitely exists#do it because the run off will be exponentially more interesting#and for vanilla extract#(and 🍌🥥🍍🧅🧄🌽🍞🥖🥨🥞🫓🫔🍚🍶🌴🌾🎋)

tags on the "class final round coming soon" post from @tinyyellowflowers-blog

#monocot propaganda #propaganda #that is a lot of emojis

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plant-taxonomy-showdown · 22 days

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I think you should rename this blog to The Phyte Fight.

It shall be considered!

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plant-taxonomy-showdown · 22 days

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Class Final Round!! Eudicots vs Monocots!

Grass (slang) vs Grass (literal)

Eudicots (“true dicots”): This is a ginormous class, containing almost all leafy trees, quite a lot of plants that humans get food from (including potatoes and all of the legumes), and the plants we get tea, coffee, and chocolate from. It also contains carnivorous plants, parasitic plants, and some very poisonous plants, as well as tobacco and cannabis.

Monocots: The second largest taxon in Magnoliophyta, with 70,000 species. Narrow leaves with parallel veins are a good sign you’re looking at a monocot, as are plants that grow from bulbs, like onions, garlic, and tulips. Do you need to touch grass? Monocot. Do you want to bake a cake? Wheat, sugar cane, and the orchids that produce vanilla extract are all monocots.

#eudicots #monocots #plant taxonomy showdown #battle of the plants #class final round #class #plant bracket #tumblr bracket #bracket tournament #poll bracket #slightly late my apologies #please send in propaganda #whichever way this goes lots of really cool plants will be out of the running

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plant-taxonomy-showdown · 23 days

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The class bracket FINAL ROUND -- between the monocots and the eudicots -- will begin in 24 hours.

Which category of plants does tumblr love the most? Find out soon.

Winner will go on to the ORDER bracket, then the FAMILY bracket, then GENUS, and SPECIES.

Unless you all pick that cabbage/broccoli/brussel sprouts species (*checks wikipedia* Brassica oleracea) or something like that, if there's significant cultivar difference we'll do a follow up bracket more specific than species level.

I don't know what we'll do if things drift towards something that's well known as a hybrid, like oh I don't know oranges. I guess we'll cross that bridge if and when we come to it.

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plant-taxonomy-showdown · 26 days

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@animalshowdown is on Phylum Round 3 (quarter finals, I guess?) and it's the last day, go check it out!

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plant-taxonomy-showdown · 29 days

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thinking about @plant-taxonomy-showdown's angiosperm cake poll and im contemplating how possible it is to bake a cake using ~~only~~ ingredients obtained from monocots (OR eudicots, but i've got that one figured out i think). i'm currently stumped by how you get air into that sucker without chemical leavening agents (aquafaba comes from eudicots so that's out).

so the solution would be like

bake something that's supposed to be dense, like ginger cake or banana bread. but the thought of making any of these without cinnamon is making me sad

stretch the definition of cake. maybe a pie is possible…?

reaaaaaaaaaaally stretch the definition of monocot-derived ingredient. like. what if i make ginger beer and use its CO2. that definitely can work (i've used cola as a leavening agent before). but then i'm relying on epidermally associated yeasts to make me the CO2, that feels like cheating.

but in theory, someone could run into a maize field at dusk, tie plastic bags around some (thousands) of plants, harvest the air before dawn, extract the CO2, pressurize it enough to blast it into water and then give me that carbonated water to use. does that count. plants make CO2 in the Kreb’s cycle so does it matter that the ginger beer's CO2 comes from a yeast digesting the ginger's glucose and not from the ginger burning its glucose how do you (imaginary arbiter of monocot cake law) know a yeast did it and not me breaking into a field at night with 10000 plastic bags i'm getting off track now.

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plant-taxonomy-showdown · 1 month

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Weed propaganda.

Class Round 2 Results:

Eudicots and Monocots win and will be facing off in the final!

Thank you to everyone who participated!

I need a bit of a breather though so it'll be a few days to a week before the Class Final Round begins.

(After that we will be doing Orders, as we zero in on Tumblr's Favorite Plant one traditional taxonomic level at a time.)

#propaganda #Eudicot propaganda

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