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SN/NC: Nelumbo Nucifera, Nelumbonaceae Family
This lovely flower is an aquatic plant of the genus Nelumbo, popularly known as lotus, lotus flower, Indian lotus and Indian lotus. Despite this, this plant does not belong to the Nymphaeaceae (Nymphaeales) family, where most lotuses are classified, being part of the Nelumbonaceae (Proteales) family.
It is a plant native to Asia, inhabiting slow water courses or freshwater ponds, living in shallow depths. It is rooted in the muddy bottom by a vigorous rhizome, from which leave large rounded leaves, supported above the water mirror by long petioles. It produces beautiful pink or white flowers, large and with many petals. It is known for the longevity of its seeds, which can germinate after 13 centuries. It served as inspiration for the architecture of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. This lotus is grown as an ornamental plant in water gardens around the world.
Nelumbo nucifera é uma planta aquática da gênero Nelumbo, conhecida popularmente como lótus, flor-de-lótus, loto-índico e lótus-índico. Apesar disto, esta planta não integra a família Nymphaeaceae (Nymphaeales), onde estão classificados a maioria dos lótus, fazendo parte da família Nelumbonaceae (Proteales).
Trata-se de uma planta nativa da Ásia, habitante de cursos de água lentos ou lagoas de água doce, vivendo a pouca profundidade. É enraizada no fundo lodoso por um rizoma vigoroso, do qual partem grandes folhas arredondadas, sustentadas acima do espelho de água por longos pecíolos. Produz belas flores rosadas ou brancas, grandes e com muitas pétalas. É conhecida pela longevidade das suas sementes, que podem germinar após 13 séculos. Serviu de inspiração para a arquitetura do Burj Khalifa, o prédio mais alto do mundo. Este lótus é cultivado como planta ornamental em jardins aquáticos de todo o mundo.
Cette belle fleur est une plante aquatique du genre Nelumbo, populairement connue sous le nom de lotus, fleur de lotus, lotus indien et lotus indien. Malgré cela, cette plante n'appartient pas à la famille des Nymphaeaceae (Nymphaeales), car la plupart des plantes de lotus sont classées dans la famille des Nelumbonaceae (Proteales).
C'est une plante originaire d'Asie, qui habite les cours d'eau lents ou les étangs d'eau douce, et vit à faible profondeur. Ils sont enracinés au fond boueux par un rhizome puissant, d'où ils laissent de grandes feuilles arrondies, qui sont soutenues au-dessus du miroir d'eau par de longs pétioles. Il produit de belles fleurs roses ou blanches de grande taille et à nombreux pétales. Ils sont connus pour la longue durée de vie de leurs graines, qui peuvent germer après 13 siècles. Il a servi d'inspiration pour l'architecture du Burj Khalifa, le plus haut bâtiment du monde. Ce lotus est cultivé comme plante ornementale dans les jardins aquatiques du monde entier.
Nelumbo nucifera is een waterplant van het geslacht Nelumbo, in de volksmond bekend als lotus, lotusbloem, lotus-indiaan en lotus-indiaan. Desondanks behoort deze plant niet tot de Nymphaeaceae-familie (Nymphaeales), waar de meeste lotussen worden geclassificeerd en deel uitmaken van de Nelumbonaceae-familie (Proteales).
Het is een plant afkomstig uit Azië, die in trage waterlopen of zoetwatervijvers leeft en in ondiepe diepten leeft. Het is geworteld in de modderige bodem door een krachtige wortelstok, waaruit grote ronde bladeren achterblijven, ondersteund door lange bladstelen boven de waterspiegel. Het produceert prachtige roze of witte bloemen, groot en met veel bloembladen. Het staat bekend om de lange levensduur van de zaden, die na 13 eeuwen kunnen ontkiemen. Het diende als inspiratie voor de architectuur van de Burj Khalifa, het hoogste gebouw ter wereld.
Deze lotus wordt gekweekt als sierplant in watertuinen over de hele wereld.
Flor-de-lótus que pueden ser vistas a lo largo de un riachuelo/canal en la Avenida RingWeg en la parte Sur de Paramaribo, Suriname.
Nelumbo nucifera es una planta acuática del género Nelumbo, conocida popularmente como loto, flor de loto, loto indio y loto indio. A pesar de esto, esta planta no pertenece a la familia Nymphaeaceae (Nymphaeales), donde se clasifican la mayoría de los lotos, siendo parte de la familia Nelumbonaceae (Proteales).
Es una planta nativa de Asia, que habita en cursos de agua lentos o estanques de agua dulce, que viven en profundidades poco profundas. Está enraizado en el fondo fangoso por un vigoroso rizoma, del cual salen grandes hojas redondeadas, sostenidas sobre el espejo de agua por largos pecíolos. Produce hermosas flores rosas o blancas, grandes y con muchos pétalos. Es conocido por la longevidad de sus semillas, que pueden germinar después de 13 siglos. Sirvió de inspiración para la arquitectura del Burj Khalifa, el edificio más alto del mundo. Este loto se cultiva como planta ornamental en jardines acuáticos de todo el mundo.
Questo bellissimo fiore è una pianta acquatica del genere Nelumbo, popolarmente conosciuta come loto, fiore di loto, loto indiano e loto indiano. Nonostante ciò, questa pianta non appartiene alla famiglia delle Nymphaeaceae (Nymphaeales), in quanto la maggior parte delle piante di loto, sono classificate come parte della famiglia delle Nelumbonaceae (Proteales).
È una pianta originaria dell'Asia, abita corsi d'acqua lenti o stagni d'acqua dolce, e vive a basse profondità. Sono radicati al fondo fangoso da un potente rizoma, dal quale escono grandi foglie tondeggianti, sostenute sopra lo specchio d'acqua da lunghi piccioli. Produce bellissimi fiori rosa o bianchi di grandi dimensioni e con molti petali. Sono conosciuti per la lunga vita dei loro semi, che possono germogliare dopo 13 secoli. È servito da ispirazione per l'architettura del Burj Khalifa, l'edificio più alto del mondo. Questo loto viene coltivato come pianta ornamentale nei giardini acquatici di tutto il mondo.
Diese schöne Blume ist eine Wasserpflanze der Gattung Nelumbo, im Volksmund als Lotus, Lotusblume, indischer Lotus und indischer Lotus bekannt. Trotzdem gehört diese Pflanze nicht zur Familie der Nymphaeaceae (Nymphaeales), da die meisten Lotuspflanzen zur Familie der Nelumbonaceae (Proteales) gehören.
Es ist eine in Asien heimische Pflanze, bewohnt langsame Wasserläufe oder Süßwasserteiche und lebt in geringen Tiefen. Sie sind mit einem kräftigen Rhizom am schlammigen Boden verwurzelt, von dem sie große, abgerundete Blätter hinterlassen, die von langen Blattstielen über dem Wasserspiegel getragen werden. Sie produziert schöne rosa oder weiße Blüten, die groß sind und viele Blütenblätter haben. Sie sind bekannt für die lange Lebensdauer ihrer Samen, die nach 13 Jahrhunderten keimen können. Es diente als Inspiration für die Architektur des Burj Khalifa, des höchsten Gebäudes der Welt. Dieser Lotus wird als Zierpflanze in Wassergärten auf der ganzen Welt angebaut.
هذه الزهرة الجميلة هي نبات مائي من جنس نيلومبو ، والمعروف شعبياً باسم اللوتس وزهرة اللوتس واللوتس الهندي واللوتس الهندي. على الرغم من ذلك ، لا ينتمي هذا النبات إلى عائلة Nymphaeaceae (Nymphaeales) ، حيث يتم تصنيف معظم نباتات اللوتس ، باعتبارها جزءًا من عائلة Nelumbonaceae (Proteales).
إنه نبات موطنه آسيا ، يسكن دورات المياه البطيئة أو أحواض المياه العذبة ، ويعيش في أعماق ضحلة. وهي متجذرة في القاع الموحل بواسطة جذمور قوية ، تترك منها أوراقًا مستديرة كبيرة ، مدعومة فوق مرآة الماء بأعناق طويلة. وتنتج أزهارًا جميلة وردية أو بيضاء كبيرة الحجم وبتلات كثيرة. وهي معروفة بطول عمر بذورها ، والتي يمكن أن تنبت بعد 13 قرنًا. كان بمثابة مصدر إلهام للعمارة في برج خليفة ، أطول مبنى في العالم. يزرع هذا اللوتس كنبات زينة في الحدائق المائية حول العالم.
'Tropisme' is a natural will to go towards something. Germinating plants will reach for the faintest light, moths will fly to the artificial moon of a patio light, roots will almost smell and hear groundwater, woodlice monitor for damp shade... instinctive compulsions.
For man, 'tropismes' became a matter for debate, with the magnetic pull of a bold sign, a sugary or fatty comfort or a charismatic smile being the choppy seas for our cerebral calculations and navigations.
Early man was still pushed and pulled by the seasons and by innate desires, but could decide if and how. Some of the extreme politics of history have formatted options for man or trawled for data of the keys that make man think and act. 'Heavily moustached man' has imagined a tropism of a 'will to power', and whilst keys to the minds of man can and do exist, they are too fickle, ephemeral and delicate to play with, and the jesters and clowns who meddle are often the ones who can look at a mess and find philosophy, look at a cold order and find attractive light.
As a child, I used to put out trays of wet cotton wool and place different seeds and fruit onto the surface to see which blooms of fungi and algae would result. Most of the time these varied and strange species are hidden from view, and over time I got some colourful and unusual results. Some seeds would germinate in the living abstract expressionism and on one occasion the alchemy produced a negative 'tropisme'. The root pushed high towards the light and the leaf pushed down into the cotton wool - a strange sight. As the cotton wool was damp, the plant managed to live, and I took the result to my biology teacher. Here, meddling with nature produced utterly unnatural results, and nature, like man, needs the time and the space to employ the common sense that is within. Man's space is not simple a room with a screen that sees the world, or a cerebral inner thought - rather a living planet, a unify-er that is at a distinct distance from all mankind.
AJ
Wishing everybody a happily blooming 2014!
This is a shot of a germinated bean seed. The cotyledons are open to show the baby plant - the embryo with its leaves, stem and root.
Asian greens germination outside during temperatures in low 20s F under Agribon 19 and frost blanket materials
Threads to Condemn
Description: The Drosera filiformis is a perennial (insectivore) carnivore plant belonging in the class Magnoliopsida, order Caryophyllales, suborder Polygonineae and family Droseraceae.
Once the seeds germinate, tiny threads of curved leaves begin to form. The curves are in spiral and proceeds to slowly uncurl as the plant grows. Many leaves are born and they grow tall compared to other Drosera species. Once the leaves are fully grown, they take an erect or semi-erect appearance. Their natural distribution areas extend from the East coast of North America from the Southwest of New Scotland, to the North, through New England to Florida and Louisiana, to the South. They grow in marshy places with poorly-mineralized soil where umidity is constant and sunlight abundant. There are many variations and hybrids, and all were introduced in other places. All of them should be cultivated equally; abundant watering with chlorine-free water and abundant sunlight with a substract consisting of poor-quality soil that can retain water, preferrably Sphagnum sp. moss, live or dehydrated. Rich or semi-rich soil burns the roots, and so does water with chlorine.
They do require winter protection if grown in cold weathers as the plant is sensitive to frost, but the seeds need colder temperatures to germinate. To germinate the seeds, they should be scattered onto damp and cold stratification. Sphagnum sp. moss is exceptional at this. The seeds should never be buried as they need the direct contact with sunlight to germinate; this means you should spray water instead of dropping a heavy amount of water onto the substract, as the heavy impact may bury the seeds.
The plant can catch prey on its own, with no need of human interference and they can survive with water alone.
Drosera filiformis needs a dormancy period. When this dormancy happens, the leaves of the plant will completely wither and die and a hibernacula (a small, brown, dormant bud just at or below the soil level) is produced. Resistance to cold is drastically increased during this stage, which remains for several months. When the temperature grows the plant will re-emerge from the hibernacula and proceed to grow.
The leaves are covered with tiny structures that ooze a droplet of mucilage. This mucilage is extremely sticky attractive to insects, which get digested by the plant when stuck through the production of digestive enzymes. The flowers are of a pinkish coloring.
The propagation is done through seeds or through leaves in a process known as "leaf-cutting".
Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosera_filiformis
www.carnivoras.com.br/drosera-filiformis-t3422.html
www.carnivorousplants.org/grow/guides/Dfiliformis
www.predatoryplants.com/Drosera-filiformis-p/dro-fil.htm
PROJECT NOAH (Português): www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1274571445
Nelumbo nucifera, also known as Indian lotus,sacred lotus, bean of India, or simply lotus, is one of two species of aquatic plant in thefamily Nelumbonaceae. The Linnaean binomial Nelumbo nucifera (Gaertn.) is the currently recognized name for this species, which has been classified under the former names, Nelumbium speciosum (Willd.) andNymphaea nelumbo, among others. (These names are obsolete synonyms and should be avoided in current works.) This plant is an aquatic perennial. Under favorable circumstances its seeds may remain viable for many years, with the oldest recorded lotus germination being from that of seeds 1,300 years old recovered from a dry lakebed in northeastern China.[1]
Native to Tropical Asia and Queensland,Australia,[2][3] it is commonly cultivated inwater gardens. It is also the national flower ofIndia and Vietnam.
A stray germination beneath one of our feeders has produced this solitary ear of Barley, thanks to the messy feeding habits of the local gang of House Sparrows
January 2025, Lucky 400 SHD bulk roll, stand developed. Ricoh 35 ZF. A little avocado growing on our window sill.
A few neighbors are still working their fields. . . the winter wheat which germinated in the warm autumn will lie dormant until spring. . . .
How do I know
if there are rocks in your field,
plow it and find out.
If the plow strikes something
harder than earth, the point
shatters at a sudden blow,
and the tractor jerks sidewise
and dumps you off the seat—
because the spring hitch
isn’t set to trip quickly enough
and it never is—probably
you hit a rock. That means
the glacier emptied its pocket
in your field as well as mine,
but the connection with a thing
is the only truth that I know of,
so plow it.
--James Hearst (my first poetry teacher, a friend of Frost and Sandburg who was a farmer-poet in Cedar Falls, Iowa, hearstarchive.uni.edu/)
This plant would have germinated from seed after a fire, when there was adequate heat and moisture. At this site now, the forest understorey is shaded by rainforest plants. Today, eucalyptus and their allies would not survive as seedlings in this shady situation.
This individual is 28 metres tall. Taller than the average height. Which is around 15 to 25 metres. I've measured the same species at 45 metres tall in the upper Lane Cove river valley. Sometimes mature examples of this species may grow to a full height of only 5 metres.
Gerard made 3 of these teddies & they looked great in August. Destined as compost now but sitting in the rain the barley seed had started to sprout. I think they have a certain charm. If he leaves them there for next few weeks I will def try to take some more pictures of how they change with time.
It took these chives nearly six weeks to germinate, which has to be some sort of record, but now they've arrived, they're making up for lost time rather quickly!
I thought they'd make a nice addition to my Abstract Nature series for this month! :)
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Germinating sycamore seed, Acer pseodoplatanus. 16 March 2023. Ealing, London, England, UK.
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Our Daily Challenge 6-12 February : Patience
Every year I grow quite a few things from seed, and this can require quite a bit of patience!
This is a Ricinus seedling, and in a few weeks will become a striking exotic looking plant.
Every part of which is poisonous!
Some of you may remember the Bulgarian envoy killed by a poisoned umbrella tip whilst waiting for a bust on London Bridge. This was the culprit.