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Mares tail (Equisetum arvense) — older than our lanes, older even than the woods.

I found them lit by sun along the verge, each stem held by the earth like a taper —

not announcing spring,
but witnessing it.

Again.

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looks very much like a #magnolia cut in half #science #flowers #bloom #ancientplants

Before Flowers Existed, Ancient Cycad Plants Lured Insects with Heat New research on strange cycad plants offers a glimpse into the prehistoric origins of pollination

Before Flowers Existed, Ancient Cycad Plants Lured Insects with Heat #Science #Biology #Botany #Cycads #AncientPlants #InsectInteractions

Forget flowers: These ancient plants attract pollinators by getting hot While many modern plants use colorful flowers to attract pollinators, ancient palm-like plants called cycads lure them by heating up and glowing in the infrared. (Image credit: Michael Calonje)

Forget flowers: These ancient plants attract pollinators by getting hot #Science #Biology #Botany #pollination #ancientplants #ecology

Fern in the morning sunlight.

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#ShadowWork & #Cannabis a guide to #SpritualAwakening such an interesting 🧐 video for those interested check it out great info #WitchSky youtu.be/geEfTlkXow4?... #OccultSky 🌿 #AncientPlants ✨

Ancient Plant Survivor Shares 400 Million Year Secrets Listen to 'Ancient Plant Survivor Shares 400 Million Year Secrets' by SynstreamGN3 on YapperBot.

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Ancient Plant Survivor Shares 400 Million Year Secrets

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This Ancient Smile Hid a Psychoactive Secret for 4,000 Years In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have found chemical traces of betel nut chewing in 4,000-year-old teeth from a Bronze Age burial in Thailand — the earliest direct evidence of psychoactive...

This Ancient Smile Hid a Psychoactive Secret for 4,000 Years #Science #Biology #Botany #AncientPlants #PsychoactiveSecrets #Archaeobotany

I love that horsetails have been around for hundreds of millions of years. When I was a kid I was fascinated that there used to be tree-sized horsetails.
#horsetails #spring #equisetum #ancientplants #alaskasky

A deep black expanse of new-ish asphalt, rain-slick, next to a grey concrete power pole base, is being punctured in innumerable places by the brilliant green pointy cone shaped tips of emerging Giant Horsetail fronds (Equisetum telmateia, possibly ssp braunii). The funny thing is there used to be a tidy clump of horsetails for years next to the pole, when the road was compacted gravel. The new impermeable surface of the paving seems to have triggered some kind of frantic rhizome expansion, and now there are new fronds lifting through the surface daily in about an 8ft radius. I keep crooning over them in amazed and admiring delight - how can they be so strong, when they fall to bits if touched? - but I can assure you I'm the only one. Everyone else is super annoyed that the new road is being wrecked.

A close up of the brilliant green pointy cone shaped tips of emerging Giant Horsetail fronds (Equisetum telmateia, possibly ssp braunii) poking though inch-thick new-ish rain-wet black asphalt. The delicate segmented fronds expand immediately as they poke through, some are still furled like green lances, some have expanded like little bomb-explosions of greenery, with chunks of road crumbled around them. Sorry for the blurriness, it was rainy and my pocket was soaked so my camera sensor was steamy and I didn't realise. Aren't they cute? I love this plant (oh! it's a Giant Horsetail, Equisetum telmateia), native and *gorgeous*, a fantastic structural plant, but you can see why no one encourages it in their cottage gardens, since it might also show up in the kitchen floor. Definitely ideally enjoyed in marshy parts of the forest along the coast, where it thrives. Though I first fell in love with horsetails at camp in the Rockies as a kid, so different species are all over Western Canada at all elevations, and all tough as nails!

"Inch thick asphalt? Pfft, this is nothin! Back in the day it'd be a 4m deep cooled lava flow, and when we finally poked through we'd get trodden on by Stegosaurus!" (the horsetails are poking through the new road at work! They're so pretty and tough)
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Release the Spores! #equisetum #horsetail #spores #springnature #irishflora #botany #plantphotography #naturelover #fieldsofgreen #wildplants #ancientplants #smartphonephotography #photography

Tiny shrub holds the record for Europe's oldest tree Scientists confirm Europe’s oldest woody plant is a tiny juniper, not a towering tree, rewriting records with its 1,647-year lifespan.

Science lovers across Europe are buzzing about a new, record-breaking discovery. It’s a shrub, not a towering tree, that holds the title of the continent’s oldest woody plant.

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#azolla #waterfern #nativeplants
#naturalist #symbiosis #aquatic #pnwplants #ancientplants

PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Plant-based diets date back 780,000 years 🌾. Stone tools show early hominins in Israel processed acorns, water lilies, and more—evidence of evolving cognition and behavior.
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Our latest video is about the archaeology of apples 🍎🍏🍎

What's your favorite apple variety?
I recently discovered Evercrisp:)

#archaeology #archaeobotany #apples #RealArchaeology #ancientplants
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