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Photos from the UW Greenhouse! They're open every Thursday (10am-4pm) or 2nd and 4th Saturday (10am-2pm). A friend wanted to show it to me when I moved here but it had just started construction and it just reopened this year! I got today off and decided to use it to see it for the first time.
Eulophia petersii, a desert-living orchid.
Welwitschia mirabilis, a desert conifer that keeps the same continually growing leaves for its long life.
Dioscorea elephantipes, which is the largest species of yam I'm currently aware of.
Some Pinguicula in flower.
Sinningia leuchotricha! I didn't realize these could get so big! These are cool members of the African violet family which have the softest, fuzziest leaves.
A huge Nepenthes pitcher.
Cordyline fruticosa
Lecanopteris deparioides, a fern with a weird blobby base! Apparently it houses ants to protect itself.
Hibiscus schizopetalus, the weirdest Hibiscus I have ever seen.
#plants#plantblr#seattle#succulents#hibiscus#eulophia#lecanopteris#cordyline#nepenthes#sinningia#pinguicula#welwitschia#dioscorea#flowers
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GO TO SLEEP.
(Dioscorea discolor, in *very* active growth in freaking December)
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Dioscorea bulbifera by Richard Ellis
Via Flickr:
Dioscorea bulbifera has a lot colloquial names including: air potato, air yam, bitter yam, cheeky yam, potato yam, aerial yam, up-yam and parsnip yam. The "air yams" are bulbils produced along the vine - photographed here www.flickr.com/photos/hrichardellis/14940899700/in/photol... . It is considered an invasive species in Florida because the vines that you can see in this photo will strangle and smother surrounding vegetation. #Dioscoreabulbifera #Dioscorea #bulbifera #CUgreenhouse #botany
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My Dioscorea discolor arrived in perfect condition! It's everything I hoped it would be... the leaves are velvet. ❤️
#plantblr#plants#houseplants#vines#Dioscorea#I haven't even taken it out of the literal cup it came in#it's so pretty I don't even know what to do with it#jfc I didn't even research where this grows lol#i honestly just assumed it would want care like Dioscorea elephantipes#but now looking at it in person I'm... you're gonna want something better aren't you?#i think these come from Ecuador... where as Dioscorea elephantipes comes from Africa#🤦#the bulb on this guy is TINY
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*220824 何個あってもええやつ🐢🐢🐢➰ 毎日2回くらいのペースでとなりのトトロを見ている娘。 ついにきゅうりを丸かじりで食べるようになりました🥒👧🏻 #メイちゃん #さつきちゃん #亀甲竜 #ディオスコレア #エレファンティペス #dioscorea #elephantipes #塊根植物 #caudex #cactus #succulent #多肉植物 #サボテン #家 #植物のある暮らし #亀甲竜_ky4 https://www.instagram.com/p/ChpDzhZr4fJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
#メイちゃん#さつきちゃん#亀甲竜#ディオスコレア#エレファンティペス#dioscorea#elephantipes#塊根植物#caudex#cactus#succulent#多肉植物#サボテン#家#植物のある暮らし#亀甲竜_ky4
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my little Dioscorea Elephantipes babies :’) their new trellis and grow light should really get things going now that the temperature is coming down
(they are winter growers, but south african winters are still a lot brighter than scandinavian ones lmao)
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Interesting Air Potato /Karanda , Edible Tuber In Roots & Tuber Mela 2...
#youtube#Edible Tuber#Dioscorea#bulbifera#Air Potato#Food Crop#Bulbils Edible#Tubers Edible#Like Small Potatoes#Perinnial#vinsmoke sanji#Karanda#Vine Potato#Invasive Vine#Food Source In Africa#Healthy Tuber#Health Benefits#Roots & Tuber Mela 2023 Mysore
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#龜甲龍 #塊根植物 #塊根 #塊根植物のある暮らし #塊根植物好きな人と繋がりたい #塊根植物が好き #塊根魂 #塊根植物シリーズ #塊根植物のすべて #塊根倶楽部 #塊根植物のある生活 #南非龜甲龍 #dioscoreaelephantipes #dioscorea #dioscorea_elephantipes https://www.instagram.com/p/CnnyTJtPm_I/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
#龜甲龍#塊根植物#塊根#塊根植物のある暮らし#塊根植物好きな人と繋がりたい#塊根植物が好き#塊根魂#塊根植物シリーズ#塊根植物のすべて#塊根倶楽部#塊根植物のある生活#南非龜甲龍#dioscoreaelephantipes#dioscorea#dioscorea_elephantipes
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うどんに葉っぱも茎も蔓ももぎられた。しばらくおやすみください🥹 #亀甲竜 #Dioscoreaelephantipes #dioscorea https://www.instagram.com/p/CljYp83yYVA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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A young Dioscorea elephantipes starting to grow leaves after its dormancy. Almost metallic looking caudex.
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ようやくお目覚め。 ちょっと心配した。 #亀甲竜 #ディオスコレア #ディオスコレアエレファンティペス #dioscorea #dioscoreaelephantipes https://www.instagram.com/p/CiRaUOQLX1i/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Experiment time!! I ordered an ube plant online and it arrived this weekend. What I'm wanting to do is see if it's 1) able to survive in a 1-3 gallon containers as a houseplant and 2) if living in such a constricting environment will induce it to grow aerial tubers which I can then use as food.
As a filipino I love ube and have decided I need it to live, but it's so difficult to get a hold of! Mostly, ube-flavored things either use artificial flavoring (which I'm guessing is made using a vanilla-substitute and taro maybe?) or use purple sweet potato, which is actually a morning glory while ube is a true yam. They're also tropical-to-subtropical so you can't grow them in the PNW. It's strange they're so hard to get here considering they're invasive in Florida.
It's also likely it'll get too large for my small space to manage, or it'll be very unhappy and stop doing well and I'll have to hand it off to someone else, but I'm hoping that even if it doesn't put out tubers it can work as a fun novelty houseplant and function as my version of an aroid.
Also as a bonus, a comparison of ube vs a sweet potato! Yams have a more rough exterior while sweet potatoes are smoother. The internal texture looks different as well with the yam being more "grainy"-looking while the sweet potato has a more smooth and ringed look.
#dioscorea#ipomoea#plants#plantblr#food plants#plampts#Love the ube. My purple friend 💜💜💜#Aesthetically it reminds me of a syngonium but with purple spots on the petiole#The stems are 'winged' slightly which is also interesting#I haven't seen the actual plant up close before
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This lovely leaf belongs to Dioscorea discolor. It’s actually an offset of my D. discolor that I gave to a friend. They grow up so fast.
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they made a cumdump plant
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I still can't believe that I have this plant... and even more surprised that it's so easy going.
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Although the spring ephemerals are all but gone now, I like to believe the end of one good thing is the beginning of another. Mid-May to early August is orchid season in Appalachia, and a number of temperate varieties are as ostentatious and dramatic as their tropical cousins. One of the first orchids out of the gate in this area is pink lady's slipper (Cypripedium acaule), also known as moccasin flower. This showy perennial monocot is currently at peak bloom at Coopers Rock State Forest. The photos above are from a hike on Scott Run Trail this past Sunday.
From top: American cancer-root (Conopholis americana), a fully parasitic plant that attaches to the roots of oak trees; whorled wild yam (Dioscorea quaternata), also known as fourleaf yam, a twining, herbaceous vine with a long history of medicinal use by Native Americans and herbalists; perfoliate bellwort (Uvularia perfoliata); a sylphlike perennial that is for me the loveliest of all the bellworts in our local woods; deerberry (Vaccinium stamineum), whose large fruits are much sought after by local wildlife, including white-tailed deer; one of the last wood anemones (Anemone quinquefolia) still in bloom along the trail; and pink lady’s slipper orchid, whose bulbous pink flower is a highly-evolved bee lure and trap that aids in pollination.
#appalachia#vandalia#west virginia#coopers rock state forest#scott run trail#spring#flora#wildflowers#conopholis americana#american cancer-root#dioscorea quaternata#whorled wild yam#fourleaf yam#uvularia perfoliata#perfoliate bellwort#vaccinium stamineum#deerberry#anemone quinquefolia#wood anemone#nightcaps#cypripedium acaule#pink lady's slipper#orchid
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