Jack in the pulpit, Arisaema triphyllum. It always feels like running into a little plant guy when I see him. I say hello.
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One of my favorite wildflowers!
Jack-in-the-pulpit is native to eastern north america and begins flowering around this time. Why is it one of my favorites? Well besides the fact that I ADORE arums and/or plants that smell like literal trash to seduce their victims, but also…
1) Jacks have the ability to switch between sexes (say the plant is female that year, but becomes stressed or diseased… it may become male the next year (typically old or large Jacks are female, and male Jacks are small or young). How delightful is that?!
2) SNEAKY MURDER GIRLS! Males have a small hole the bottom of their spathe (hood that covers their flower cluster), so that pollinators can escape and spread their pollen. BUT females have no escape hole in their spathe so anything that falls in is trapped forever, making successful pollination more likely.
*Sometimes female Jacks are referred to as Jills but I think that’s stupid. 🙂
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Today's plant is Arisaema triphyllum, also known as Jack-in-the-Pulpit. (photos are mine)
A. triphyllum is actually a species complex of four (or five, depending on who you talk to) closely related species. All species are native to Eastern North America and are found in deep, moist soils rich in organic matter. This group is still undergoing lots of debate in the taxonomy world, and the exact grouping and lineages are not fully known.
This species complex is part of the family Araceae, which is an incredibly cool (in my opinion) and diverse family that predominantly lives in the tropics of South American and eastern Asia.
Like most of its relatives, it attracts pollinators (at least in part) through deceptive scent compounds, which are volatilized and spread under exposure to heat. Unlike many of its relatives, Jack-in-the-Pulpit does not appear to utilize thermogenesis (active metabolic heat production) in its flowering parts to achieve this--it is posited that absorbed heat from the sun is sufficient for them to release these compounds! (Barriault et al. 2009)
Another trait it shares with almost all of its relatives is a very particular defense strategy: tiny, tiny knives. Its shiny red fruits might look tasty to some, but beware: the sensation of biting into it has been described by those brave (read: foolish) souls who've tried it as "like chewing glass."
This sensation is caused by tiny daggers of crystalline calcium oxalate (called raphides) being forcibly ejected from their cells right into your tender mouth parts by the force of your own chewing. Now that's what I call retribution!
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Arisaema triphyllum / Jack-in-the-Pulpit at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC
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Ohio Spring Wildflower Field Guide
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some neat looking plants I've seen recently
wild red Columbines (Aquilegia canadensis)
Found at a church.
Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
Found this while hiking. I didn't know what it was and I didn't have anything to take a picture of it with when I first saw it, so I went back the next day. Apparently part of it is ""edible"", but only after cooking. Otherwise it tastes like burning and poisons you. :)
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Arisaema triphyllum (Jack-in-the-pulpit)
Jack and Jill
Jack-in-the-pulpit is a species native to eastern North America. The inflorescence can be male (with male flowers only), bisexual (with both male and female flowers), or female (with female flowers only).
As the Arisaema grows, individuals change sex in a pattern determined by their size. In a small plant, all of the flowers are male. As the plant matures and grows larger, the spadix produces female flowers as well as male flowers. When full grown, Jack-in-the-pulpit becomes Jill-in-the-pulpit and produces female flowers only. This reproductive system is called 'sequential hermaphroditism' and it's rare, known only in a very small number of flowering plant species.
Meanwhile, back at the tea cup collection...
Royal Albert, Jack-in-a-Pulpit, Bone China tea cup and saucer
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hey i just found your blog and got excited just reading your bio. because im disabled due to all my chronic illness & pain bullshit, and really want to get into botany or horticulture and I’ve been told it’s unrealistic due to the physical toll of the job, and the mental toll for taking all those stem classes. and it’s so nice to see someone who is doing that work despite it! thank you for existing! may your pain & symptoms be easily managed!
Don't let anyone say what you can and can't do. That is up for YOU to decide.
If you can't do outside work there are plenty of opportunities in data science, genetics, and lab work for botany and horticulture. I'm not personally knowledgeable about specifics, but I bet some of my followers are if you want advice. Just know that environmental science is accessible to everyone regardless of ability to do fieldwork.
Thank you, you as well!
Here's some cool plants I've seen recently :3
Jack in the pulpit: Arisaema triphyllum
Lenten-rose: Helleborus orientalis
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Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
Family: Arum Family (Araceae)
IUCN Conservation Status: Unassessed
Also known as the Bog Onion or Brown Dragon Arum, the Jack-in-the-Pulpit is a small and highly unusual plant found across much of eastern North America. Growing to be around 60cm (2ft) tall, it bears its tiny flowers between March and June on a long spike-like structure surrounded by a large striped leaf known as a pulpit or spathe (which serves to protect the fragile flowers, provides a surface for pollinators to land on and attracts pollinators with its striking patterns, and which is often mistaken for the plant's flower) and is unusual among plants in that it is a sequential hermaphrodite; young adult individuals produce exclusively pollen-producing "male" flowers, but as they age they begin to produce a progressively larger number of pollen-receiving, seed-producing "female" flowers, with all of the flowers on older individuals being "female." The curved internal structure of the pulpit makes it difficult for insects to leave it the way they entered it, and as the "sex" of a Jack-in-the-Pulpit changes throughout its life, its reproductive strategy also changes; the pulpits of young individuals have small openings on their underside that allow their pollinators (mainly small flies, but also certain beetles) to leave and carry the plant's pollen away from it, but in older "female" individuals, in what is assumed to be an adaptation to ensure that any pollen carried into the pulpit is transferred to the flowers, the pulpit has no such opening, trapping the insects permanently and making this species a very rare example of a plant that kills its pollinators. As a defence against herbivorous animals the leaves and stems of Jack-in-the-Pulpits are poisonous and lined with tiny needle-like calcium structures called raphides which cause painful irritation and aid the toxins in entering the tissues of animals that bite or crush the plant, although following pollination "female" flowers develop into small red berries that, after ripening and falling from the plant, can be safely eaten by birds and certain small mammals, allowing the seeds within to be transported away from their parent in the animal's digestive system. Young Jack-in-the-Pulpits are mature enough to bare flowers at around 3 years of age, and enter a state of dormancy in which their leaves and aboveground stems die back each autumn/fall, rapidly re-growing in the spring with the help of a nutrients-filled extension of their roots called a corm. While all populations of Jack-in-the-Pulpits were historically regarded as belonging to a single species, genetic evidence now suggests that they are likely a species complex (a group of very closely related and near-identical species that are difficult to reliably distinguish from one another,) made up of at least 4 distinct species with a possible 5th species being recognised by some authorities.
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Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/50310-Arisaema-triphyllum
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Be ready. Jack is setting up the pulpit and will be preaching the gospel of the woodland and singing hymns of the water over stones.
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Last time I tried this it loaded forever and nothing happened. So let's try again:
Oenothera speciosa (pink evening primrose)
Gaillardia xgrandiflora (blanket flower)
Allium schoenoprasum (wild chives)
Rubus allegheniensis (Allegheny blackberry)
Drymocallis arguta (tall cinquefoil)
Armeria maritima (thrift seapink)
Erigeron glabellus (streamside fleabane)
Aquilegia canadensis (Canada columbine)
Fragaria virginiana (wild strawberry)
Erigeron philadelphicus (Philadelphia fleabane)
Lupinus polyphyllus (bigleaf lupine)
Mimulus guttatus (yellow monkeyflower)
Tradescantia ohiensis (Ohio spiderwort)
Taraxacum officinale (dandelion)
Hydrophyllum virginianum (Virginia waterleaf)
Fragaria vesca (woodland strawberry)
Phlox divaricata (woodland phlox)
Cerastium arvense (field chickweed)
Vaccinium angustifolium (lowbush blueberry)
Arisaema triphyllum (jack-in-the-pulpit)
Trillium cuneatum (sweet little Betsy)
Zizia aurea (Golden alexanders)
Calctha palustris (marsh marigold)
Myosotis laxa (smallflower forget-me-not)
Trillium erectum (red wakerobin)
Uvularia grandiflora (largeflower bellwort)
Heliopsis helianthoides (sweet oxeye)
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (New England aster)
Silphium perfoliatum (cup plant)
Cirsium discolor (field thistle)
And the rest will have to wait because tumblr cut me off. lol
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Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Arisaema triphyllum
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Native plant sale day at the North Carolina Botanical Gardens! I was able to get the following, now just need to find places for everything:
Amorpha fruticosa / Bastard Indigo
Asclepias syriaca / Common Milkweed
Rhododendron prunifolium / Plumleaf Azalea
Rhododendron viscosum / Swamp Azalea
Salvia lyrata / Lyreleaf Sage
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium / Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve / Smooth Blue Aster
Tradescantia virginiana / Virginia Spiderwort
Sisyrinchium angustifolium / Narrow Leaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Polygonatum biflorum / Solomon's Seal
Monarda fistulosa / Wild Bergamot
Rhus aromatica / Fragrant Sumac
Arisaema triphyllum / Jack-in-the-Pulpit
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Finally posted the plants that are for sale on the facebook page. I know I don't use my tumblr for business and I don't plan to but w/e for those just curious what I've been trying to sell out on locally here it is;
Arisaema triphyllum 1 gal $8
Asclepias incarnata 'Cinderella' 1 gal $5 and $8 for larger
Asimina triloba 1 gal 7" - 15", $15
Betula alleghaniensis 25"-36"- $15
Catalpa sp. (speciosa) 22" - 34" $15
Cephalanthus occidentalis $10
Cercidiphyllum japonicum 59 "- 87" $20
Hosta 'Golden Tiara' 1 gal for $4 or $15 for larger
Iris sibirica 1 gal $8
Iris domestica 1 gal $8
Penstemon sp. 1 gal $8
Picea glauca 18" - 30" $15
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae 1 gal $5
Syringa retiuclata 27" - 43" $15
Thuja occidentalis 35" - 50" $15
am I underpricing some of these? Probably, but the quality of some of them I personally feel may have dropped since last year, and I just want them gone and in some garden soil rather than waste in a planter.
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