I couldn’t live with myself if I was paying for Twitter. Those folks literally funded the largest and most pervasive child porn operation to ever exist.

Wow, that’s super interesting.

Do NOT capitulate to the US or oligarchs. They are trying to steal your country!

I just got a new macro lens. I’ll be trying my hand at some snowflake shots soon. Hopefully I can get some good ones.

I got Elden Ring to run at stable 40fps which was fine for me, but I can see how folks wouldn’t accept that.

It took me a long time to get into it. The first time I gave up and stopped playing, but came back a year later. It clicked a bit more, but even then, towards the end of the game I was begging for it to end. It’s a pretty great story, but the gameplay is run-of-the-mill and bland.

Absolutely gorgeous plant! Apparently Drosera anglica grows naturally a bit North of me, but hasn’t been spotted in a few years. I’d love to find one in the wild.

Oh I bet that was pretty! There’s definitely Indian paintbrush all around this fen, but not on it. When the time of year is right a bunch of fringed gentians pop up there and it’s beautiful.

I’ve got another fun fact that adjacently relates to this plant.

So the ghost pipe leeches off of those mycorrhizal fungi, but those fungi share a symbiotic relationship with the tree. The fungi help the trees absorb water and nutrients and the fungi get sugar in return. Some of the most well known plants wouldn’t be nearly as present if this relationship didn’t happen. Take wild blueberries for example. They grow in acidic soil that is poor in nutrients. They’d die without these fungi. While not all mycorrhizal relationships are necessary, a vast majority of plants have this relationship.

That blew my mind when I first read it, lol. Sorry for ranting.

These ones were probably 8" or so IIRC. I think these were the tallest I’ve found so far. Usually they’re shorter and more hunched over.

It does look like a scrotum, lol

That’s interesting, thanks for sharing. I’ve not seen this plant before, too cool.

Carnivorous plants are truly alien.

Gorgeous! I love it!

I’m not sure, but that is a good point. That and seed dispersal seem like a good reason, that or it’s a latent trait from a shared ancestor.

They’re mostly located on the East coast and Northern Midwest US. They’re all over Canada. Most states have some carnivorous plants though. The one I really want to find in the wild is Darlingtonia californica the cobra lilly. It’s an absolutely gorgeous plant, but only found in Northern California and parts of Oregon.

Source of photo

Yup, that is its flower.

Here’s a more complete picture of one

Sarracenia sp. are too cool. We have Sarracenia purpurea that grows wildly here. We’re absolutely lousy with them.

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