Grace Squirrel

Keepin it real

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I walk a lonely road, the only road that I have ever known

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@dog_rates

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Dog or meerkat?

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A lovely example of spike inflorescence from our little botany field trip to look at flowers. #bio120Sum17 @NutmegSomething

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Found some flowers I liked and took the fruit. Still immature, but it's a capsule (dehiscent dry fruit with fused carpals) @NutmegSomething

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Another kalanchoe update-their adventitious roots turned into real root systems (using auxin for elongation, of course) @NutmegSomething

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Experimental group finally grew roots after ending auxin treatment-concentration and placement affect hormone's effect @NutmegSomething

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I thought my jade cutting died, but this little bb was producing auxin to make some adventitious roots. I'm so proud. @NutmegSomething

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A lovely developing pome: indehiscent fruit composed of a swelling inferior ovary! #bio120Sum17 @NutmegSomething

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@nudi_pics @NutmegSomething Considering that it has a typical mushroom fruiting body, my guess is a basidiomycete.

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Liquidambar styraciflua or sweetgum tree. Has 5 point star leaves and a really cool name. #bio120sum17 @NutmegSomething

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Conifer pollination: male gametophyte grows, but it can take a year for the female one to grow. He waits, pining for her 😉 @NutmegSomething

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Article ab Salem trials & ergot. Lysergic acid in mycotoxin caused hallucinations of witchcraft! https://t.co/eRSTiFFJns
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Evidence that spores are everywhere: found this rogue Trichoderma viride in my "sterile" cultures of a gray fuzzy fungus. @NutmegSomething

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I think the little kalanchoe plants that I propagated have started to grow! @NutmegSomething

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This little plant taught be about axillary buds. The top came off, and it branched off ft. toothed leaves w/ pinnate veins @NutmegSomething

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Found out our maple is a crimson king with opposite simple leaves that are lobed and toothed with palmate vention @NutmegSomething

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Annuals have to be planted annually. Perennials have per like perimeter, so they go around and around, living for years. @NutmegSomething

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I saw a lovely fruiting body of an unknown fungus at the Cook County Preserve. Looks like somebody wanted to reproduce. ;) @NutmegSomething

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Poor aquatic plant. Adding a salt solution to the environment resulted in plasmolysis, shrinking the cytoplasm. @NutmegSomething