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Highdown Gardens near Worthing, West Sussex ...
Caltha palustris, known as Marsh Marigold and Kingcup, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Ranunculaceae, native to marshes, fens, ditches and wet woodland in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
It becomes most luxuriant in partial shade. It is rare on peat. In the United Kingdom, it is probably one of the most ancient native plants, surviving the glaciations and flourishing after the last retreat of the ice, in a landscape inundated with glacial melt waters.
The flowers are yellow, with 4-9 (mostly 5) petal-like sepals and many yellow stamens. They appear in early spring to late summer. The flowers are visited by a great variety of insects for pollen and for the nectar secreted from small depressions, one on each side of each carpel. Hoverflies, bees, butterflies and dragonflies love the flowers.
Carpels form into green sac-like follicles to 1 cm long, each opening to release several seeds.
Caltha palustris is a highly polymorphic species, showing continuous and independent variation in many features. Forms in the UK may be divided into two subspecies: Caltha palustris subsp. palustris, and Caltha palustris subsp. minor.
It is sometimes considered a weed in clay-like garden soils, where every piece of its root will survive and spread. In warm free-draining soils, it simply dies away. It grows well as a pond marginal, or in the water with up to 4" of water above the basket.
As is the case with many members of the family Ranunculaceae, all parts of the plant are poisonous and can be irritant. Skin rashes and dermatitis have been reported from excessive handling of the plant. It is known to sometimes kill cows and will happily grow in cow manure.
I was a biology geek in school and we a good few trips counting snails , drawing diagrams ...they probably get to play with digi cameras now Sigh...... but if you care a brief and overly simply bio lesson ......all these snail in pictures are the same species Cepaea nemoralis it gets studied a lot in biology cos its polymorphic (within the species it has many physical forms ). On grassland you tend to find just the pale ones, cos the darker snails are very visible to feeding birds and therefore fail to pass on their genes to the next generation . But you get wildly differing types in structually diverse environments like this wood the banding good camouflage for the "stripeys" hanging out on the knots while the "pale snails" prefer the leaves .
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Wingspan ~14mm
RWWA-2364 BOLD DNA:BOLD DNA: specimen is likely to be one of the following between 98-100%: Zeiraphera improbana, Zeiraphera sp., Zeiraphera hesperiana, Zeiraphera fortunana, Zeiraphera griseana, Zeiraphera unfortunana and Zeiraphera diniana.
The highest DNA matches are with two specimens of Zeiraphera improbana (UBC-2007-0190 and 0193) from British Columbia. These are the only two specimens of Z. improbana with matches over those of Zeiraphera griseana in this group of Zeiraphera from here. This will require additional study.
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This matching to the numerous above species I think indicates the polymorphic nature of the group Zeiraphera griseana.
Locality: Coastal SW Washington State at the edge of Willapa Bay geo:lat=46 37.273 geo:lon=-123 56.814see discussion.
Stellwagen Bank CBC- 12/30/11
Excerpt from my email to on-board participants regarding the 24-year record-high count of 46 Northern Fulmars and their 3:1 dark/light ratio:
"Perhaps most unusual and surprising was the ratio of dark and light morph fulmars (a polymorphic species). In the Atlantic population, birds in the high Arctic at the northern-most reaches of the species’ range are mostly dark, while those that occupy the southern portions of its range (and the birds we typically see at Stellwagen) are mostly light. Why this pattern was reversed among the birds we saw yesterday is a mystery. Let’s hope it’s not indicative of more trouble in the Arctic due to climate change."
Photograph of our kinetic seating installation, "Polymorphic."
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Paper mulberry
Cat 2 Invasive""Varies: hydric - mesic
Smooth, light brown, gaining vertical shallow furrows with maturity.Deciduous"Complexity: Simple
Arrangement: Varies: alternate, opposite, and whorled.
Shape: Polymorphic.
Margins: Serrate
Venation: sub-palmate""Thick pubescence on leaves, petitoles, and new stem growth. (Morus rubra will only have pubescence on leaves.)
Sap is milky colored
Leaves large."Aggressive colonizer.
Moraceae, paper mulberry, simple alternate whorled opposite, bark light tan pubescent red striations, polymorphic, top leaf scabrous, top bottum leaf pubescent satin
Asplenium aethiopicum
Aspleniaceae
Indigenous to the Hawaiian islands.
Hakalau, Hawaiʻi
A highly polymorphic pan-tropical species that needs more work
Impact event crystallization from living Siphonophore or Chondrophore (Cnidarian Hydrozoa medusa jelly) Marine Invertebrate. This is not Silicate Quartz material. Paragonal.
Photograph of our kinetic seating installation, "Polymorphic."
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This is a really variable species, with lots of named varieties. Most botanists tend not to put much faith in varietal status (statuses?), but rather look at this stuff as a widely distributed entity...a "polymorphic" species.
It is superficially similar to Stachys, and can fool you in the field, until you get close up to it. Although they look similar, Stachys and Teucrium reside in different subfamiles within the Lamiaceae.
Visiting one of my mothing lights set up at cabin 3 at Brendan T. Byrne State Forest, here in the Jersey pinelands.
Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki, Ian J. Wang & Kyle Summers (2012). Mate choice and the genetic basis for colour variation in a polymorphic dart frog: inferences from a wild pedigree. Molecular Ecology, 21, 3879-3892. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05644.x
Photograph of our kinetic seating installation, "Polymorphic."
More at www.evolo.us/architecture/polymorphic-installation-a-kine...
Photograph of our kinetic seating installation, "Polymorphic."
More at www.evolo.us/architecture/polymorphic-installation-a-kine...
The Butterfly House at Wisley.
A late winter, early spring visit to RHS Wisley Gardens near Ripley in Surrey. As well as the gardens, the tropical greenhouse was transformed into a Butterfly House for the winter.
Papilio memnon, the great Mormon, is a large butterfly native to southern Asia that belongs to the swallowtail family. It is widely distributed and has thirteen subspecies. The female is polymorphic and with mimetic forms.
Its range includes north-eastern India (including Sikkim, Assam and Nagaland), Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nicobar Islands, Andaman Islands (stragglers only), western, southern and eastern China (including Hainan), Taiwan, southern Japan including Ryukyu Islands, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Kampuchea, Malaysia and Indonesia (Sumatra, Mentawai Islands, Nias, Batu, Simeulue, Bangka, Java, Kalimantan and the Lesser Sunda Islands).
Photograph of our kinetic seating installation, "Polymorphic."
More at www.evolo.us/architecture/polymorphic-installation-a-kine...
I was a biology geek in school and we a good few trips counting snails , drawing diagrams ...they probably get to play with digi cameras now Sigh...... but if you care a brief and overly simply bio lesson ......all these snail in pictures are the same species Cepaea nemoralis it gets studied a lot in biology cos its polymorphic (within the species it has many physical forms ). On grassland you tend to find just the pale ones, cos the darker snails are very visible to feeding birds and therefore fail to pass on their genes to the next generation . But you get wildly differing types in structually diverse environments like this wood the banding good camouflage for the "stripeys" hanging out on the knots while the "pale snails" prefer the leaves .
Die Ausserirdische 1/The extraterrist woman 1, 1986
Beton, Stahl/concrete, steel, 40 x 120 cm
During the early 1980s, a lively exchange developed between the Rhineland artist collective Paul Pozzozza Museum (PPM) from Düsseldorf and the Frankfurt-based musician and artist Alfred 23 Harth (A23H). Among the active members of PPM was Marcel Hardung, who, together with other protagonists of the group, came into contact with Harth after one of his experimental concerts at the Düsseldorf Kunsthalle. This meeting marked the beginning of an ongoing artistic relationship that reached beyond regional borders and media distinctions.
At the time, Harth was running the waschSalon gallery in Frankfurt, a self‑organized space dedicated to presenting avant‑garde art and performance. The gallery quickly became a platform where artists from different backgrounds—visual, musical, and conceptual—could meet. Several times, Harth invited and exhibited the artists of the PPM circle at the waschSalon, thereby bringing Düsseldorf tendencies into dialogue with Frankfurt’s own experimental currents. In addition, he purchased several works from the artists who exhibited at waschSalon. Although many of these works cannot be traced today, this act of collecting reveals the degree of engagement and commitment Harth maintained toward emerging artists and their practices.
The visual communication of the waschSalon exhibitions was itself a product of this networked creativity. Invitation cards, posters, and similar material were printed at Zypresse, a local press in Frankfurt that had become part of the gallery’s infrastructure. The contact with Zypresse originated through one of Harth’s saxophone students, who was not only a musician but also a graphic designer. This student designed the logo and typography for waschSalon, thereby shaping its graphic identity and bridging Harth’s dual worlds of music pedagogy and visual experimentation.
Taken together, these interconnections illustrate how artistic initiatives in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt of the period operated in a transdisciplinary spirit. PPM’s conceptual play with the notion of the “museum,” Hardung’s contributions within this group, Harth’s polymorphic practice as musician, visual artist, and gallerist, and the involvement of printers, students, and designers—all were woven into a shared fabric. The outcome was not only the staging of exhibitions and concerts but also the creation of ephemeral networks and friendships, whose traces are now scattered across stories, printed matter, and a few surviving works of art.
Miscellaneous
Marked
Hx: 17 m/o male, h/o polymorphic ventricular tachycardia of unknown etiology with ICD episode of cyanosis, meds: sotalol, Mg, Keppra (h/o seizures)
Indian Paradise Flycatcher
The Indian paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi) is a medium-sized passerine bird native to Asia that is widely distributed. As the global population is considered stable, it has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 2004. It is native to the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia and Myanmar.
Males have elongated central tail feathers, and a black and rufous plumage in some populations, while others have white plumage. Females are short-tailed with rufous wings and a black head. Indian paradise flycatchers feed on insects, which they capture in the air often below a densely canopied tree.
Three subspecies are recognized:
Himalayan paradise flycatcher (T. p. leucogaster) – (Swainson, 1838): Originally described as a separate species. Breeds in the western Tian Shan, in Afghanistan, in the north of Pakistan, in northwestern and central India, in Nepal’s western and central regions; populations occurring in the east of Pakistan and in the south of India migrate towards the foothills of the Himalayas in spring for breeding.
T. p. paradisi – (Linnaeus, 1758): breeds in central and southern India, central Bangladesh and south-western Myanmar; populations occurring in Sri Lanka in the winter season are non-breeding.
Ceylon paradise flycatcher (T. p. ceylonensis) – (Zarudny & Harms, 1912): found in Sri Lanka.
Adult Indian paradise flycatchers are 19–22 cm (7.5–8.7 in) long. Their heads are glossy black with a black crown and crest, their black bill round and sturdy, their eyes black. Female are rufous on the back with a greyish throat and underparts. Their wings are 86–92 mm (3.4–3.6 in) long. Young males look very much like females but have a black throat and blue-ringed eyes. As adults they develop up to 24 cm (9.4 in) long tail feathers with two central tail feathers growing up to 30 cm (12 in) long drooping streamers.
Young males are rufous and have short tails. They acquire long tails in their second or third year. Adult males are either predominantly bright rufous above or predominantly white. Some specimens show some degree of intermediacy between rufous and white. Long-tailed rufous birds are generally devoid of shaft streaks on the wing and tail feathers, while in white birds the shaft streaks, and sometimes the edges of the wing and tail feathers are black.
In the early 1960s, 680 long-tailed males were examined that are contained in collections of the British Museum of Natural History, Chicago Natural History Museum, Peabody Museum, Carnegie Museum, American Museum of Natural History, United States National Museum and Royal Ontario Museum. The specimens came from almost the entire range of the species, though some areas were poorly represented. The relative frequency of the rufous and white plumage types varies geographically. Rufous birds are rare in the extreme southeastern part of the species' range. Throughout the Indian area and, to a lesser extent, in China, asymmetrically patterned intermediates occur. Intermediates are rare or absent throughout the rest of the range of the species. In general, long-tailed males are
predominantly rufous with some white in wings and tail — collected in Turkestan, Kashmir, northern India, Punjab, Maharashtra, Sikkim and in Sri Lanka;
predominantly rufous with some white in wings — collected in Iran, Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Punjab, Kashmir, northern and central India, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Bihar, Nepal;
predominantly rufous with some white in tail — collected in Punjab, northern and central India, Kolkata, Sri Lanka and in the Upper Yangtze Valley in China;
predominantly white with some rufous in tail and wings — collected in Kashmir, Maharashtra, Sichuan and North China;
predominantly white with some rufous in tail — collected in Maharashtra and Fuzhou, China;
predominantly white with back partly rufous — collected in Punjab and Chennai;
moulting from rufous into white plumage — collected in North Bihar.
Possible interpretations of this phenomenon are : males may be polymorphic for rufous and white plumage colour; rufous birds may be sub-adults; and there may even be two sympatric species distinguishable only in the male.
They are migratory and spend the winter season in tropical Asia. There are resident populations in southern India and Sri Lanka, hence both visiting migrants and the locally breeding subspecies occur in these areas in winter.
According to Linné’s first description Indian paradise flycatchers were only distributed in India. Later ornithologists observed this spectacular bird in other areas, and based on differences in plumage of males described several subspecies.
Indian paradise flycatchers inhabit thick forests and well-wooded habitats from Central Asia to south-eastern China, all over India and Sri Lanka to Myanmar.
Indian paradise flycatchers are noisy birds uttering sharp skreek calls. They have short legs and sit very upright whilst perched prominently, like a shrike. They are insectivorous and hunt in flight in the understorey. In the afternoons they dive from perches to bathe in small pools of water.
The breeding season lasts from May to July. Being socially monogamous both male and female take part in nest-building, incubation, brooding and feeding of the young. The incubation period lasts 14 to 16 days and the nestling period 9 to 12 days. Three or four eggs are laid in a neat cup nest made with twigs and spider webs on the end of a low branch. The nest is sometimes built in the vicinity of a breeding pair of drongos, which keep predators away. Chicks hatch in about 21 to 23 days. A case of interspecific feeding has been noted with paradise flycatcher chicks fed by Oriental white-eyes.
Photograph of our kinetic seating installation, "Polymorphic."
More at www.evolo.us/architecture/polymorphic-installation-a-kine...
Photograph of our kinetic seating installation, "Polymorphic."
More at www.evolo.us/architecture/polymorphic-installation-a-kine...