#plants #history #botany #art 🎨 Friday Art... Winslow Homer (1836-1910) A Tropical Breeze, Nassau Watercolor and Pencil on Paper c.1890 Have a good weekend! (I learned my lesson yesterday - Mad Dogs & Englishmen Go Out In The Mid-Day Sun 🙁)

#plants #history #botany #art 🌳 Anacardium occidentale: Cultivated Cashew Anacardium is a large genus, A. occidentale is its most common cultivated member, enough so to be considered a World Food. This plate by Étienne Denisse c.1843. Kew Plants of the World powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:ls...

Is a Cracker Barrel one of these? They look like they burn a lot of Wattage.

#plants #history #botany #art 🌼 Erythrina variegata - Tiger Claw, Indian Coral Painted by Ellis Rowan, 1848-1922 c1890 Native range is SE #Asia, but has established itself in the #Nile basin from fro #Uganda to #Egypt. Its seeds can be eaten after processing to remove toxins, otherwise edible.

This one... Have a nice day.

#plants #history #botany #art 🎨 Friday Art... George Cole, R.A. 1810-1883 Harvesters Rest Oils on Canvas c.1865 Have a peaceful weekend 🙂

#plants #botany #history #art 🌼🐝 Penstemon - Genus of over 300 flowering plants. Native to N.America from #Canada through the #USA plains to #Mexico. Good habitat for Bumble #Bees, Honey Bees & other pollinators. Bred for flower variety in #Europe, summer blooming. www.rhs.org.uk/plants/penst...

#plants #botany #history #art Cyperus papyrus - papyrus sedge,papyrus,paper reed, Indian matting plant,Nile grass. 1/ Used from at least 3,400 BCE for paper making and domestic flooring. There are some interesting references to this and also notable Victorian artist Marianne North. See 2/ &3/

#plants #history #botany #art 🎨 Friday Art 🙂 Gustave Cariot (1872-1950) La Ferme Oils on Canvas c. 1919

#plants #history #botany #art 🌼 Clarkia tenella syn. Oenothera tenella - Evening Primrose Possibly over 300 varieties of C. tenella bred for colour. Origins south of #Chile & #Argentina. Copes with hard conditions but is a short lived annual. Good for pollinators, often escapes cultivation.

#plants #history #botany #art Canna indica - achira, arrowroot, flowering shot, Indian reed, Indian shot, tous-les-mois Native to C.America, S.USA. Introduced to tropical belt world-wide. An attractive and long-lived perennial, invasive in S.Africa. Rhizomes are edible and a good famine food.

#plants #history #botany #art 🎨 Friday Art! Summer - The Harvesters Workshop of Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Oil on panel c1623 One of many versions of 'Summer', from the Seasons quadriptych by the Brueghel father & son workshop. Very appropriate to our 🇬🇧 early harvest this year due to the heat.

#oilprice #Trump #Affordability #Midterms #UK #USA Well, this is all going rather well, isn't it? 🙂

#plants #botany #history #art 🌱 Smilax - Genus - catbrier, greenbrier, prickly-ivy, smilaxes, Sarsaparilla About 350 members of this genus, largely edible and common to Tropical & Sub-Tropical bands. Commonly known as the ingredient of the soft drink Sarsaparilla. See any old western movie 🙂

#plants #history #botany #art Cattleya dowiana

#plants #botany #history #art 🌱 Angelica archangelica syn. A.officinalis Origins N #Europe, spread to #Iceland 🇮🇸, #Greenland 🇬🇱 and introduced to #Yukon 🇨🇦. First catalogued 1753 in Species Plantarum A French delicacy, here's a recipe - READ THE HEMLOCK WARNING ☠️ - foragerchef.com/candied-ange...

#plants #history #botany #art 🌱 Tamarindus Indica - Tamarind Tree I've posted the Tamarind before but this is a far better plate, from Berg & Schmidt, Atlas der Officinellen Pflanzen of 1899. And here's a short, interesting article from Oxford Herbaria - herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/plants40...

#Farage #UKpolitics #Clacton #Binface #History Unexplained money pouring into Reform UK and Farage before the 2024 election - surely not! Coincidentally I've been reading up on the fraudster Horatio Bottomley MP - a back-pocket patriot: 🙁 - www.westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-...

#Farage #Clacton #Binface #UKPolitics I was wondering - do any of our younger and fitter contributors - and that's not me, I assure you - fancy spending a couple of weeks leafleting and door-knocking for Binface? It is time that The Count took his seat, which he has very rightfully earned.

#plants #history #botany #art 🌱 Bryonia Alba - White Bryony, Wild Hop, English Mandrake, Ladies Seal. A vine: looks good, but it's a nightmare that takes years to be rid of - ALL PARTS TOXIC ☠️ Origins in Europe and Iran, introduced to #Washington & #Idaho (Why?) where it's an invasive species.

#Farage #rightwing #populist #ukpolitics I've just been sent this. If it's true I rarely have the time to care about Far Right "politicians" but in this case I hope that his future in public life is spent as far away from me as possible.

#History #Botany #USA #Europe #Art Finally, this is Titian's 'Bacchus and Ariadne', c.1520-3. Take a careful look in the top left corner. See anything else? Have a good day!

#History #Botany #USA #Europe #Art And this is the Betty Ross, first flag of the USA, said to have retained the thirteen bars of The British East India Company's flag at the insistence of Benjamin Franklin.

#History #Botany #USA #Europe #Art And this is the Continental Ensign of The British East India Company from 1775 - 1801, owners of the said Tea... Anything familiar?

#History #Botany #USA #Europe #Art "Good morning America, how are you?" (‘City of new Orleans' Steve Goodman) perf. Arlo Guthrie 1971. Here are a few connections that come to mind 🙂 This is Camellia, the Tea plant, a cargo of which found its way into Boston Harbour.

#plants #orchids #history #botany #art 🌼 Dimorphorchis lowii, (Renanthera lowii) (Several Syn.) Origin #Borneo. An impressive orchid for the patient and dedicated grower. Large, impressive, needs hothouse cultivation and takes 10 yrs to flower. IOSE article: www.orchidspecies.com/diphmlowii.htm

And here's a repost of a post that you may have missed, from a few months ago. 🙂 Dryopteris (Aspidium) filix-mas, the Common Male Fern

#plants #ferns #history #art 🌿 Asplenium ceterach - Rustyback Fern Notholaena - Cloak Fern genus Two ferns to try in a terrarium: Rustyback is fond of growing from cracks in carbonate rocks. It thrives in the lime mortar of old walls. Cloak fern likes a hard life in cracked pavings and gravel.

#plants #history #botany #art 🎨 Friday Art - Something cool. Have a good weekend! John la Farge 1835-1910 Water Lilies Watercolor and gouache on paper c1884.

#plants #history #botany #art 🌼 Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Poincillade, Peacock Flower, Red Bird of Paradise Beautiful flowering shrub origins C. #America and #Caribbean. First recorded by Maria Sibylla Merian, #Suriname, C17th. All seeds are toxic☠️ but have various (doubtful) folk medicine uses.