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rattyexplores · 25 days

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Beautiful button orchid growing on a palm tree.

17/01/24 - Dischidia nummularia

QLD:WET - Cairns

#nature #Dischidia nummularia #Button Orchid #Plantae #plants #botany #Milkweeds #Gentianales #Magnoliopsida #Dicots #Angiospermae #Flowering Plants #angiosperms #Tracheophyta #Vascular Plants

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arinewman7 · 2 years

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Milkweeds

Fidelia Bridges

1876

#Fidelia Bridges #art #artist #painter #painting #Milkweeds #1876

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urbansoulfarmer · 10 months

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Tropical Milkweed.

#milkweeds

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whatnext10 · 11 months

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A Colorful Bush and a Beautiful Butterfly Make Spring Wonderful

A Colorful Bush and a Beautiful Butterfly Make Spring Wonderful shows readers a gorgeous zebra swallowtail butterfly as it feeds on a clump of butterfly weed. To the author/artist these species and their colors are a perfect representation of spring.

Spring Complexion I suspect that anyone who loves nature loves springtime. Early spring is a time for renewal and rebirth, while later in the spring the theme seems to be amazing color. Once wildflowers begin to bloom butterflies, colorful moths, and insects start to re-emerge and out come the birds and other wildlife. Add to all of that warming temperature and gentle breezes and all in all, you…

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gardenofsustenance · 2 years

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Adopt a spot garden after a hot dry summer…severe drought… the milkweed for monarch butterflies lookin great, artemisia happy, the garlic chives are just starting to bloom. The rose rugosa which had a tree cricket again got a good pruning. All the dead pricklies were removed…sigh… thanks for the hellos and well wishes to those who greet me at the stoplight.

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tggardens · 9 months

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After some reading I decided to sow out some of the milkweed seeds into Plant Jail and just soak the whole plant bed with the watering can every day to see what sprouts. I've sprinkled more than one type of seed in this bed before, so something should sprout even if it's "weeds."

And since I'm going to be watering intensively I threw in the Sky Lupine, Elegant Clarkia, and Succulent Lupine seeds that I got from the native plant sale as well, just to vary up what's growing in there and avoid a monoculture.

#native plants #ca native plants #milkweeds #showy milkweed #kotolo milkweed #narrow leaf milkweed #sky lupine #elegant clarkia #succulent lupine

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dorkvania · 11 months

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Butterfly Repopulation Station in Portland

Free seeds, information and also a patch of milkweed for Monarch Butterflies

#butterflies #monarch butterfly #milkweed #native plants #rewilding #biodiversity

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mycthefirefly · 1 year

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-Big flower ＆ long leaf = rabbit milkweeds／兔兒菜 -Small flower ＆ short leaf = Oriental Hawksbeard / 黃鵪菜 wild vegetables | yellow flowers | wind dispersal Their seeds can travel far, far away. May the seeds of kindness travel far and wide to everywhere in the world.

#tzuchi #plants #osmanthusgarden #wildvegetables #milkweeds #hawksbread #lifeasamonastic #hualientaiwan #hualien #taiwan #taiwannature

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zandraart · 1 year

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butterfly wing inspired landscapes: monarch

#artists on tumblr #art #illustration #landscape #butterfly #monarch butterfly #my art #remember if u live in the monarch butterfly migration path to plant native milkweed plants this year if u can..ty

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rattyexplores · 7 months

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Balloonplant

The foodplant which the Monarch Butterfly caterpillars were feeding on. Keep an eye out for this plant in the Sydney area!

Gomphocarpus physocarpus

24/03/23 - NSW, Dapto

#Gomphocarpus physocarpus #Balloonplant #Asclepiadoideae #Milkweeds #Magnoliopsida #Dicots #Angiospermae #Flowering Plants #angiosperms #Tracheophyta #Vascular Plants #Plantae #Plants #botany

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botanyshitposts · 7 months

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today i found a plant growing in an alleyway downtown that gave me this delightful little seed pod that looks like a little banana about an inch long but it splits down the front to reveal hundreds of flat little seeds with little papery wings seed wings and theyre all stuffed into neat rows in a way that makes the pod look like an overfull expanding file and if you run your finger over it seeds fall out. the plant had like 6 of them going overhanging this one sidewalk and some of them were huge, like multiple inches long. anyway plants are still just making stuff outside it seems

#seedposting #this pod fell off into my hand when i touched it so i was like oh for me??? the fruits of nature???#also the reason why this strikes me is bc we have multiple milkweed species around here that do a pod thing #but with big floofs on the end of each seed. and those look less like an expanding file and more like a tissue box #but there arent a whole lot of plants around here that have the little papery seed wings inside a pod??#and the size. the whimsy #im assuming its an ornamental bc i havent seen it around here before lmao

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headspace-hotel · 6 months

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I love how there is really no wrong way to do the really old and universal crafts practiced by humans. Some arts take a lot of technical skill and you need to buy equipment, but with stuff like fiber arts, you can just redneck engineer some simple paleolithic solution with a stick or a rock and your own body and obtain materials from common plants around you, and yay! You can start making stuff!

Anyway, milkweed seed fluffs can be spun into yarn?!?!

#plants #milkweed #i have never done this before ever

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unidentifiedmammal · 2 years

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breaking open dried milkweed stalks to collect their bast fibers.

i pounded them with a makeshift billet against a smooth surface to break them similar to how ive broken brambles before, and then snapped the pith in order to get only the outer fibers.

At this point i had a bunch of the papery skins attaching all the fibers together, like the image just below. But peeling them off is both inefficient and can lead to breaking

in order to get rid of the outer layer, i rubbed/rolled them vigorously between the palms of my hands, breaking it into flakes that either fell off or can be combed/carded out. it was too difficult to film but basically the same as making a friction fire (although easier for sure).

At this point i had a handful of fibers, still long but in need of combing. I have a fine-toothed comb i use for a lot of fiber stuff, and ran that through it

I'll leave the sound on this one because it's an interesting auditory experience, some might like it some might hate it. Note, be prepared to sweep afterwards!

i used to worry about combing stuff like this too much, and i sort of still am, but its important to remember that what im removing are fibers that would otherwise be too short or fragile to include in a refined long-fiber bundle. What im going for is a line flax/fluff flax-like combo; aka i comb out the short fibers and then i have a bundle of extra long ones to work with!

the result is two bundles of different textures and potential

i made a little test string with the "line" milkweed, but i have yet to do anything more with it

as for the fluff, i carded it out!

i made it into a rolag that i then spun up on my tiny spindle

I quite like it. It definitely reminds me of flax/linen, which makes sense since it's also a bast fiber. Milkweed is often known for being extremely strong; i've heard from a fiber class instructor that you can tow a car with a finger-sized rope of it

I don't know exactly what kind of milkweed this is , but i've heard swamp milkweed is top of the class for fiber. orange butterflyweed is a bit weaker than this one (which might be swamp, might not)

(Also note, if you plant milkweeds, don't plant tropical milkweed outside of its native range! it's not as good as the native ones and can even increase disease in monarchs since it doesnt die back in warm winters)

anyways, have a lil monarch caterpillar!

#crafts #fiber arts #cordage #natural fibers #milkweed #bast fibers #nature #earth skills #drop spindle #handspinning

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milkweedman · 1 month

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Proof of concept thorn tool. (Much better versions of) these are known throughout prehistory and were used to process plant fibers. I didn't know if they'd work well enough on milkweed to bother with, but now I have tried.

I probably need at least 30 thorns, and definitely longer ones. I was collecting and storing some in my rollator bag, and I think they might have been falling out because I definitely picked way more. But even like 7 or so very short ones bound together (badly) with flax was still, in fact, a far more effective tool than just my hands.

I only processed one milkweed stalk, since it was getting dark and this tool does absolutely suck, but I got it from whole rhetted stalk to fiber in about 10 minutes, and I think I could easily do 2 or 3 stalks at once and it would take the same.

I first smashed the stalk with a hammerstone against a wooden stump to get the hard pith out. The stone on wood technique is new to me but very effective. I'd been trying stone on stone (lack of available tree stumps to work on) and it hardly gets the pith out at all. But stone on wood is super effective as well, definitely will keep doing that.

After removing the pith I combed it repeatedly with the tool. This was made difficult by the fact that the tool was constantly wiggling around and falling apart. But it quickly stripped the outer layer off the fibers. Previously I had been rubbing them between my hands, which was very very slow and tended to damage the fibers. I got the idea from Sally Pointer's videos, but I think milkweed might just have too thin an outer layer ? Or some other reason (or maybe I was doing it wrong, but I don't see how as it is just rubbing). So the tool worked much better and faster. It did produce a lot of tow, although better technique and a better tool will probably help with that.

The line fibers

The tow fibers (top--I didn't have the energy to clean them up, but these should be spinnable as a rolag once I do)

Also tried a little cordage. My twist ratio was way off, which is a new cordage problem for me. I was curious how it would work up, but I don't plan to continue it. Not sure what to do with the rest of the milkweed though. I'm not very confident about spinning it, although maybe if I processed it more I'd have a better chance. At the moment it feels very rigid...not like the flax or hemp I've used.

Anyway, I need to go back to the hawthorn trees I found in the winter and look for new thorns I guess, although it might be too early. I really want a better tool so I can process the mountain of milkweed stalks before I move.

#milkweed #fiber processing #sorry for the bad pictures it was night when i finished #prehistoric fashion #(thats just my prehistory tag but also if i can spin it it will be prehistoric fashion so)#bast fiber

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herpsandbirds · 2 months

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Queen Butterfly (Danaus gilippus), male, family Nymphalidae, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

Poisonous.

Just like the Monarch butterfly, of the same genus, the Queen is toxic, as the caterpillars also feed on Milkweed (Asclepias spp.).

photograph by Alan (@peleides)

#butterfly #milkweed butterfly #danaus #nymphalidae #lepidoptera #insect #entomology #aniamls #nature #north america

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spiralshells · 2 months

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Guy vaguely based on the aphids who used to live here until the milkweed died

#i miss the milkweed #the back patio just didn't get enough sun i think #and my planters are shallow and kinda suck #sorry aphids and caterpillars and fun little syrphid flies shaped like wasps #creature design #digital art #spiralshells art #bugs

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