My husband and I got a quarantine dog in May along with the rest of the country. He has provided many frustrations as well as many gifts, much like most things that are worth the effort.
All tagged Mutualisms
What is a fruit?
Flowers are the mother of fruit. How does a flower become a fruit? What is a fruit?
What is a flower?
One of the best parts of spring is the flowers. Flowers bring color and structure to our yards and joy to our hearts, but what is a flower? Like everything else, flowers have cultural and aesthetic significance, but I want to look at flowers under a botanical lens.
What is a plant?
What is a plant? There are many deeply strange forms of life on earth that do not conform to our three kingdoms model of the world. What counts as a plant, and what doesn’t? This is the first of a new series of posts that will look under the hood of some everyday plant concepts. We’ll start at the very beginning, asking “what is a plant?” Send me any of your plant quandries and I’ll try to answer them. (Cover image of diatoms--are diatoms plants? Photo by Zeiss Microscopy CC license)
Acarodomatia
A house for ants!