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Your Flower Friday is brought to you by the Common Evening Primrose!
This North American wildflower has a lifespan of 2 years and can grow up to 5ft or 1.5m tall. It is great for pollinators and has some medicinal properties.
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Your Weird Wednesday is brought to you by sundews!
Sundews or Drosera is a genus of carnivorous plants with at least 194 species. These tiny little predators have modified, tentacle-like leaves covered with sticky, sap-covered hairs to ensnare prey.
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Your Tiny Tuesday is brought to you by Endophytic Bacteria!
This category of microbes live within plant tissues and help their host plants resistant infection, uptake nutrients, and produce growth hormones or antibiotics.
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Your Medicine Monday is brought to you by Quinine!
This anti-malaria compound was first isolated from the bark of the cinchona tree in Peru. Bark extracts have been used since at least 1632 to treat malaria.
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Silly Science Saturday:
Me: I finished all the sampling!
Coworker 1 & 2, immediately grab the "emergency" party horns
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Your Flower Friday is brought to you by the Giant Sunflower!
Helianthus giganteus is also known as the Tall Sunflower or Swamp Sunflower. It blooms from July to September and grows to 4-10 ft (1 to 3 meters) in height!
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Weird Wednesday is brought to you by Broomrapes!
With a staggering 150 species, these parasitic plants sport gorgeous flowers with tiny seeds. No leaves. No chlorophyll. They get all their food and nutrients from their host.
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Your Medicine Monday is brought to you by squalane!
This hydrating oil is used to promote skin health and reduce signs of aging. Although shark livers are an abundant source of it, most squalane is now derived from plants such as olives or by fermentation.
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Tree Thursday is brought to you by the Northern Catalpa!
Commonly planted as an ornamental, this native North American tree has a thick trunk, big heart shaped leaves, long seed pods which resemble cigars, and gorgeous flowers.
Northern Catalpa share.google/XnFXsIf5aPei...
Si vous ne le faites pas encore, n'hésitez pas à suivre ce compte qui vous donne des #PhytoFacts régulièrement sur des plantes médicinales d'Europe. https://x.com/JardinVillars/status/1143896664693968898
