Does anyone know of a website where you can find centers of origin for a plant species as well as what the original growing conditions there were (geology, soils, sun/shade, humidity, temp)? #Botany@plantscience
One of the stop's during Davis' Ride of Silence was close to a carob (Ceratonia siliqua) tree I know of. I noticed some dropped branches on the street nearby and picked them up.
Carob is cauliflorous & ramiflourous - its racemes of flowers bloom directly from its trunk and branches. @plantscience@gardening
"their reproductive structure, called #pseudanthium (Greek for "false flower") or in #Moraceae#hypanthium is composed of clusters of tiny unisexual flowers on a disc- or cup-shaped receptacle that are often adorned with bracts of various sizes and shapes." [wikipedia]
"their reproductive structure, called #pseudanthium (Greek for "false flower") or in #Moraceae#hypanthium is composed of clusters of tiny unisexual flowers on a disc- or cup-shaped receptacle that are often adorned with bracts of various sizes and shapes." [wikipedia]
🌳 Join us to learn about the newly published paper ‘Stretched sapwood, ultra-widening permeability, and ditching da Vinci: revising models of plant form and function’ in @AnnBot by Tommaso Anfodillo & Mark Olsonand. (1/8)
Ceratonia siliqua (#carob) is a Mediterranean native. CA has a Mediterranean climate in most of the state. So carob was a very popular choice in the days before large irrigation projects brought cheap water to folks in cities.
And remained a popular choice for those concerned about conserving water in our drought-prone state.
When left to its own devices, #carob tends to grow as a many-trunked tree or a very tall bush. The street tree examples I've seen tend to be pruned to be single trunk.
But occasionally I see carob volunteers that unknowing folks prune into hedge shapes. This is growing right next to its tall street tree parent.
Most of Plant Science Twitter seems to be on Bluesky. What are your favorite Fediverse accounts (institutional and/or personal) for keeping up with academic botanical news? #Botany#AskFedi@plantscience@academicchatter
This is the 4th yr that this university has known they have at least one disabled student in Plant Sciences & has not made an attempt to reach out to consult during the organization of the event so it can be planned to be more accessible.
After all the planning is over, without saying anything about whether any accessibility was already planned into the event, disabled people are asked what "accommodations" they need.