🌿 Cyperus fuscus L.
🏷️ Cyperaceae
📍 les Guilleries
🔗 https://floraguilleries.cat/cyperus-fuscus-l/
#Cyperaceae
🌿 Carex pendula Huds.
🏷️ Cyperaceae
📍 les Guilleries
🔗 https://floraguilleries.cat/carex-pendula-huds/
🌿 Scirpoides holoschoenus (L.) Soják
🏷️ Cyperaceae
📍 les Guilleries
🔗 https://floraguilleries.cat/scirpoides-holoschoenus-l-sojak/
🌿 Cyperus eragrostis Lam.
🏷️ Cyperaceae
📍 les Guilleries
🔗 https://floraguilleries.cat/cyperus-eragrostis-lam/
Sarakasvien harrastajat on kuulemma vähän eksentrisiä. No, ihan sama, nää vaan on niin kivoja.
Carex davalliana
#Carexdavalliana #Carex #DavallsSegge #Davallssedge #LaîchedeDavall #Pflanze #plant #Cyperaceae #Segge #Sedge #Nature #NaturePhotography
🌿 Schoenus nigricans
🏷️ Cyperaceae
📍 les Guilleries
🔗 https://floraguilleries.cat/schoenus-nigricans-l
#flora #Cyperaceae #Guilleries #floraguilleries #botany #wildflowers #plants #biodiversity #openscience
🌿 Carex riparia
🏷️ Cyperaceae
📍 les Guilleries
🔗 https://floraguilleries.cat/carex-riparia-curtis/
#flora #Cyperaceae #Guilleries #floraguilleries #botany #wildflowers #plants #biodiversity #openscience @plantscience
Pale Galingale, Cyperus eragrostis, in Sedge family, #Cyperaceae. Growing outside office I have worked in for over a decade, New Cross, SE London. Rhizomatic. It's a tough perennial, introduced -- from west coast of the Americas and the Caribbean. Probably counts as invasive though it's slow-spreading. Triangular stems and tough, v-shaped leaves. #WildflowerHour #botany
Almost seven week later we have a strong and healthy plant, full of vigour — what a survivor. I wonder if I will ever get to see its flowers.
/cc [ @plants | #gardening | #Cyperus | #chufa | #xufa | #tigerNut | earthAlmond | yellowNutsedge | #atadwe | #pfende | #Cyperaceae ]
/cc [ @plants | #gardening | #Cyperus | #chufa | #xufa | #tigerNut | earthAlmond | yellowNutsedge | #atadwe | #pfende | #Cyperaceae ]
#Cyperaceae and the inverse relationship between range and chromosome size.
#Rhynchospora is the group worked on. No native ones on NZ though.
https://academic.oup.com/aob/article-abstract/130/7/999/6808968
Sea Club-Rush, Bolboschoenus maritimus, in the Sedge family, #Cyperaceae, in flower, Rochester, UK. The stem is triangular. There are bits of accessible saltmarsh by the esplanade. Sea Beet and Sea Arrowgrass, Sea Purslane, other #halophytes. Interesting to compare this old #saltmarsh with the restored/created saltmarsh inlets in the colossal development site known as Rochester Riverside -- which are 'to be looked at' not 'to get your feet wet looking for plants'. #botany #WildFlowerHour
#Ouroboros: Snake eating its own tail:
In the spring of 2018 I planted some #chufa (#Cyperus esculentus) tubers in a doubled-walled potato pot that sat outside all summer, and mid-October the same year I could harvest 500+ g tiger nuts. I was thrilled.
However, picking and cleaning the tubers was much more time and labour consuming than I was willing to put into it, so I have mostly used the chufa plant as a lush and decorative tuft of “grass”.
At springtime this year I found some leftover desiccated tiger nuts from the 2018 harvest in a jar and decided to see if they were still alive: On April 14th (a “root day”, according to Maria Thun) I soaked a small handful of tubers and planted them, two or three together, in small pots the next day (also a root day).
Yesterday, more than one and half month later, I noticed that a single tiger nut has germinated with two healthy looking sprouts. Not a wildly impressive germination rate, but an amazing feat nonetheless.
In comparison, tiger nuts from last year sprouted after just ten days with a near 100% germination rate.
I look forward to being able to snack on the fresh tiger nuts during the summer. 😋
/cc [ @plants | #florespondence | #gardening | #Cyperaceae ]
🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyperus_esculentus
In the spring of 2018 I planted some #chufa (#Cyperus esculentus) tubers in a doubled-walled potato pot that sat outside all summer, and mid-October the same year I could harvest 500+ g tiger nuts. I was thrilled.
However, picking and cleaning the tubers was much more time and labour consuming than I was willing to put into it, so I have mostly used the chufa plant as a lush and decorative tuft of “grass”.
At springtime this year I found some leftover desiccated tiger nuts from the 2018 harvest in a jar and decided to see if they were still alive: On April 14th (a “root day”, according to Maria Thun) I soaked a small handful of tubers and planted them, two or three together, in small pots the next day (also a root day).
Yesterday, more than one and half month later, I noticed that a single tiger nut has germinated with two healthy looking sprouts. Not a wildly impressive germination rate, but an amazing feat nonetheless.
In comparison, tiger nuts from last year sprouted after just ten days with a near 100% germination rate.
I look forward to being able to snack on the fresh tiger nuts during the summer. 😋
/cc [ @plants | #florespondence | #gardening | #Cyperaceae ]
🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyperus_esculentus
🤸 It's alive! 🎉
@plants, please meet my Cyperus alternifolius (syn.: C. flabelliformis) that has survived its fourth winter outside in Denmark. I actually thought it was dead after the winter this year, and had started contemplating what else to plant in that corner, but today I noticed three strong shoots (of which two are seen on the attached photo). Yay!
The previous four summers it has grown to 175+ cm during the growth season, only to have all greenery killed by frost during the winter.
See parent post for how the papyrus ended up outside in the first place.
/cc [ #Cyperus | #Cyperaceae | #papyrus | #sedge | #gardening ]
@plants, please meet my Cyperus alternifolius (syn.: C. flabelliformis) that has survived its fourth winter outside in Denmark. I actually thought it was dead after the winter this year, and had started contemplating what else to plant in that corner, but today I noticed three strong shoots (of which two are seen on the attached photo). Yay!
The previous four summers it has grown to 175+ cm during the growth season, only to have all greenery killed by frost during the winter.
See parent post for how the papyrus ended up outside in the first place.
/cc [ #Cyperus | #Cyperaceae | #papyrus | #sedge | #gardening ]
Just published: review of Paul Rothrock's Sedges of Indiana and the Adjacent States: The Carex species. Vol. 2.
I really like this book. I'm biased, as a sedge enthusiast and contributor of an essay on chromosome evolution. But Paul's book is masterful, richly illustrated with Paul's photos, with great keys and beautiful text. Read the review, buy the book, support plant biodiversity research and Paul's ongoing work.
New paper led by PhD student Luciana Pereira-Silva on the Diversity and taxonomy of #Cyperus (#Cyperaceae) in the Central-West Region of #Brazil
Introduction: I am a Senior Research Leader at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and study diversity, evolution and conservation of plants. Focus area: (sub)tropics with most experience in #Africa and #Madagascar. Focus plant group: #Cyperaceae. Focus topics: #taxonomy #phylogenomics and more recent interest in using #ai for species identification and delimitation of #herbarium specimens.
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