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Papilio palamades, Palamedes swallowtail

Cirsium horridulum, bristle thistle (aka horrid thistle)

#花 @plants

A butterfly with black and yellow patterned wings perched on a yellow thistle flower with thistles leaves, buds and other foliage in the background. The butterfly is facing left and has its proboscis poking inside the top spines of the flower. The thistle flower is a green ball of spines with small spiny arugula-like leaves wrapped around the bud. On top of the green ball are numerous yellow spikes.
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    Syrphus ribesii, flower fly on Coccolaba spinescens

    First black swallowtail caterpillar of the season on fennel, Papilio polyxenes

    Dolichovespula maculata, bald-faced hornet

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    A close-up image of a tiny black caterpillar with a middle white stripe on fennel fronds. The tiny caterpillar has lots of spines. The image of the fennel is so close-up, it looks like the nervous system of an animal except completely green.
    A close-up of a bald-faced hornet on a wooden plank. The hornet has its head down and is scraping off bits of wood which you can see bc it is leaving a trail where it is scratching. The hornet is mostly black with yellow markings on its head, ventral side of its thorax and anterior of its abdomen. The wings are brown and translucent.

    A hoverfly with yellow and black stripes on the back of a leaf. Light is shining through the leaf so that the numerous veins glow neon green. The light also shines through the abdomen of the hover fly and makes the insect appear translucent. The background is blue sky with faded green from a large tree 
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    Strongly considering collecting seeds and planting these around trees as revenge on squirrels for digging up seedlings and stealing fruit. 😈… 🐿️🐿️🐿️😱☠️

    Cirsium horridulum, bristle thistle (aka horrid thistle)

    #花 @plants

    Close-up of the yellow and brown thistle center showing intricate details and textures. The stamens are deep in the center and look like the end of spaghetti noodles squeezed into a bunch.
    A wider shot of the thistle. It is actually a very large plant. The leaves look like arugula if it were massively thorny and could be used as a weapon. The rolled up hedgehog of a flower sits on top of this giant vicious plant.

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    Sugar magnolia snap pea

    Seed-grown white pomegranate flower, germinated late spring 2020

    Cara Cara orange is re-flowering after flowering too soon this winter. All the winter-set fruit fell off and there aren’t many blooms this spring.

    #花 @plants

    Close-up of a branch with light green leaves and a red bud against a blurred natural background. The flower bud looks like a tiny apple.
    Close-up of a white flower surrounded by green leaves. The light is casting directly on the white pedals so that the pedals appear to be glowing white. There are five long, thin, white petals, arranged in a star, and it has a prominent green pistil and long thin white stamens closely arranged circling upright around the stamen. The filaments are yellow.

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    Please like these photos.

    This bug was so fast. Followed it around for 15’ and these were the best pics I got. Oh well.

    Hemaris deffinis, snowberry clearing (aka hummingbird moth) on Salvia lyrata, lyre leaf sage

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    A hummingbird moth feeding on lavender tube-shaped flowers with a green background. There are new buds of flowers at the top of the pic and those are dark purple. The thorax is very fuzzy and yellow, and the abdomen is black and fuzzy. Its wings are clear but with black veins. And the photo they’re rather blurry because they beat very fast. In this pic, the moth has pulled away and its proboscis is hanging out in front.
    A hummingbird moth with black and yellow coloring hovering near purple flowers. This is a download facing pic. Its head is in the flower.
    Close-up of a hummingbird moth feeding on purple flowers against a green grassy background. This pic the hummingbird moth is facing right with its head in a flower.

    A hummingbird moth feeding on lavender tube-shaped downward-facing flowers with a green, grassy background. The thorax is very fuzzy and yellow, and the abdomen is black and fuzzy. Its wings are clear but with black veins. And the photo they’re rather blurry because they beat very fast. The moth in this pic has its whole head in the flower and his clasping onto the flower from the sides.
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    @ginaintheburg @plants ❤️ :blobcatheart:

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    Bad hair day

    Erigeron philadelphicus, fleabane

    #花 @plants

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    Chionanthus virginicus, fringe tree

    #花 @plants

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    progress 🧵

    My tree seedlings for the rewilding project in graveyards and city parks aren’t large enough to plant in ground this year but they will be next year. The maypops are ready to plant though so will do that when I hear from the city arborist.

    For that project, I am planting
    Acer floridum
    Asimina triloba
    Diospyros virginiana
    Passiflora incarnata
    Prunus americana

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    progress 🧵

    Last year, I tried air-layering branches of a fruiting hackberry tree from a city park but someone cut them off. 😫

    This spring I found a 2-3yo seedling planted by a bird growing up between some fencing in my yard and I rescued it before it got too entangled, then transplanted some bluets going to seed as companions.

    Celtis occidentalis, hackberry
    Houstonia caerulea, bluets

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    Eurytides marcellus, zebra swallowtail on Rubus allegheniensis, wild blackberry

    #花 @plants

    A zebra swallowtail butterfly on leafy green blackberry brambles full of white buds and white flowers. This pic is taken more towards its side and is facing top left. The wings are mostly open and the left wing is pointed to the camera.

    A zebra swallowtail butterfly on leafy green blackberry brambles full of white buds and white flowers. The black stripes run parallel to its black body, except on the end of his wings where curves at an angle with the shape of its wings. At the end of its wings is an eye spot that looks more red-haired matryoshka doll head with black eyes nose and mouth. Above either side of the doll is dusted iridescent blue specks. The tips of the swallowtail’s tails are white.
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    Three pips for native plants 🎉

    Trillium erectum, red trillium

    Viola pedata, birds foot violet

    Fragaria virginiana, wild strawberry

    Medeola virginiana, cucumber root

    Sisyrinchium atlanticum, eastern blue-eyed grass

    #花 @plants

    A close-up of a green plant with 6 pointed leaves radiating from a central point. The light is shining on the leaves so they glow green.
    Two blue flowers with yellow centers bordered in dark purple. They emerge out of long stems from a plant that has long grassy looking leaves.

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    Pelegrina galathea, peppered jumping spider

    Asimina triloba, pawpaw

    #花 @plants

    Close-up of a maroon flower with deeply-veined petals with a blurred natural background. The pic is same flower and spider bug different angle. The flower hangs down on the branch and the pic is taken from the side and the spider is upside-down facing left. You can see it from the side and it is cast in shadow. The top of the flower is dusted with yellow pollen.

    Close-up of a maroon, deeply-veined flower with a blurred blue sky in the background. It has three large petals opposing directions like a triangle and three more curled petals between the gaps of the petals. Light is shiny through the petals casting deep shadows in the folds. On the left petal is a plump jumping spider facing down. It sort of has dessert camouflage.
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    Wildflowers have the best names.

    Packera dubia, wooly ragwort

    Nuttallanthus canadensis, blue toadflax

    #花 @plants

    Close-up of small light purple flowers with a blurred green background. They are growing on a very tall stem. The flowers look a little bit like snapdragons.

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    Stylophorum diphyllum, wood poppy

    Pics taken with a loupe. The “flaws” are from the loupe’s glare.

    #花 @plants

    Close-up of a yellow flower's stamen and pistil. This photo is facing the side so the stamen points right. This photo is slightly more focused but still has a yellow haze. Some of the anthers are heart-shaped most are oval.
    Close-up of a yellow flower's stamen and pistil. The photo appears dreamy. The yellows blend into each other like a brilliant yellow haze, slightly out of focus. This photo is facing from bottom so the stamen points upwards. This photo shows more shadow from the anthers.

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    Tradescantia virginiana, spiderwort

    Leaves and flowers are edible but not fine eating. The flowers are better than the leaves - tastes like a floral, a bit overripe cucumber. The leaves are grassy.

    Rabbits love this plant and will chew it down to stubble so if you actually want to see flowers, it needs protection.

    #花 @plants

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    https://www.today.com/food/people/chili-crunch-brand-responds-to-david-chang-rcna147083

    I found it really upsetting that Momofuku would come down on a woman-owned small business after trademarking a common name for an internationally widespread condiment. In the article, she says the public outcry hasn't led to actual sales so I got her sambal chili crunch and rendang curry paste. (Her legal bills are pretty extreme.) Wish her the best. ❤️

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    Hello!

    Viola pedata, bird’s foot violet

    The flowers and leaves are edible but too cute to eat. But in case you are wondering, the flowers taste like lettuce with hint of cucumber and leaves taste like lightly peppery cucumber.

    #花 @plants

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    This is moss!

    Diphasiastrum digitatum, fan clubmoss (aka ground cedar, bears paw, crows foot)

    Gelsemium sempervirens, Carolina Jessamine

    Praying mantis ootheca

    Pteridium aquilinum, common bracken

    #花 @plants

    Two yellow trumpet-like flowers with sunlight directed towards them. The bell is flared out to a star shape. It is growing on a vine with narrow green lanceolate leaves.
    A praying mantis ootheca hanging on to a green stem. It is brown and looks like a dry brown sponge
    A close up of a small green curled fern leaflet. To the left further down the stem, the leaflets are more unfurled, to the right they are coiled tightly on the stem.

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    The “epic” eclipse mashup you didn’t know you needed. 🥰 Eclipse

    Phlox stolonifera, creeping phlox

    #花 @plants

    Carpet of white star-shaped flowers with green leaves. A colander is held up behind the camera so that it casts a shade with moon-shape light.

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    @plants

    here is a glorious video

    #花

    A colander is held up over a carpet of white star-shaped flowers. It is during eclipse so that the holes through the colander appear like crescent moon shapes on the flowers. The colander is moving in circles, so the moon shapes are also appearing/reappearing.

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    Early Richmond pie cherry, Prunus cerasus

    Phlox stolonifera, Creeping phlox

    Eugenia selloi, Freaktangatuba

    #花 #果 @plants

    Close-up of bright pink and white flowers with a focus on the pink blossoms in natural light. The pink is an electric magenta, and they have dark red centers. The flowers have five petals in the shape of a star and are densely clustered together.
    Close-up of two white flowers with numerous stamens, green leaves in the background. The flowers are close to the stem and our opposite to each other on the stem. One flower faces top left and the other bases bottom right. To the top right you can see more flower, but on the stem.

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    The most beautiful fly I have ever seen in my life. So beautiful!

    So AMAZE! 💚❤️😍😭😍❤️💚

    Sphecomyia vittata, long horned Yellowjacket fly

    Amelanchier canadensis, serviceberry

    #花 #树 #果 @plants

    A gloriously beautiful fly that looks a bit like a bee on white flowers with green foliage in the background. The direction of the photo is looking down on the fly’s head. The eyes are an opaque matte black and look like a bikini top on its head. The rest of the head is sunflower yellow with a long black stripe in the center. It has a black tongue sticking into the flower. The thorax is mostly black with two pairs of short yellow stripes. Its two wings are resting closed together and are translucent reddish brown. The legs are long, thin and reddish towards the tarsi and yellow near the abdomen. The flowers are closely packed together on a stem with thin white petals looking like they’re barely hanging on to the green star-shaped cup center.

    A gloriously beautiful fly that looks a bit like a bee on white flowers with green foliage in the background. The fly has a plump body with sunflower yellow and black stripes and big black eyes and thick blunt antennae in the shape of a V on its head. The thorax is mostly black with yellow stripes going in the opposite direction. Its two wings are resting closed together and are translucent reddish brown. The legs are long, thin and reddish towards the tarsi and yellow near the abdomen. The flowers are clustered very close together on a stalk and have thin white petals that seem haphazardly arranged, green stamens, long thin filaments and yellow anthers. There are small leaflets poking out from under the flower cluster.
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    Liriodendron tulipifera, tulip tree

    Does the leaf seem happy to you? 🤔

    #树 @plants

    Close-up of a light green leaf bud on a branch with a blurred natural background. There are new small leaves emerged around the side of the main bud in the center. It looks like a strange flower like a green magnolia.

    A close-up of the underside of a new green leaf against a grey background of trees and sky. Light is showing through the lead so that the veins are clearly visible and light green. The leaf has four pointed lobes. Looking at the leaf one half at a time, the two lobes together look like a frog about ready to catch a fly. Below the leaf is another leaf that is just beginning to emerge out of a leaf bud.
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    Osmundastrum cinnamomeum, cinnamon fern

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    Three young fern fronds unfurling in a natural setting. The stems are more orange-ish brown but the leaflets are sort green and fuzzy.

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    Solanum corymbiflora, cold hardy tamarillo

    The blooms started in early spring. The internet says they bloom in the fall. (Lies, LIES!) Plant is not self-fertile so you need two. Currently hand-pollinating bc only two plants have opened flowers and the rest are still buds. No pests noticed. Needs protection from high winds.

    #花 #果 @plants

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    Taxodium distichum, bald cypress

    #树 @plants

    Close-up of a green coniferous branch with needle-like leaves, blurred background. The angle of the photo positions the branch in the middle from a thicker end of the branch pointing higher in the photo towards the end of the branch. Sunlight is shining on the new leaves so they glow green.
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    My favorite plant April Fool’s:

    https://www.chicagobotanic.org/blog/news/garden_embraces_artificial_intelligence

    Has anyone seen any good ones out this year?

    @plants

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    Mertensia virginica, Virginia bluebells

    Phlox stolonifera, creeping phlox

    #花 @plants

    A close-up of densely-packed cluster of white flowers with yellow centers. The flowers have five thin petals in a star formation. The sun is shining on them.

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    Freaktangatuba blooming in sunroom, (Eugenia selloi)

    Cherry of the Rio Grande blooming outside, (Eugenia involucrata)

    Bunnytrix Hopper looking cute, Sylvilagus amabilis

    #花 #果 @plants

    Close-up of a white flower with prominent stamens, surrounded by green lanceolate leaves. The flower has four white rounded petals and four dusty rose pointy sepals.
    A tawny rabbit sitting on grass. Its feet are facing forward to the camera but it is looking slightly away from the camera. One ear is cocked towards the camera bc I was talking to it.

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    yesterday. Saw wood duck, turkey, zebra swallowtails, lots of deer 🦌🦌🦌

    Asimina triloba, pawpaw flower

    Prunus serotina, black cherry (not sure)

    Gelsemium sempervirens, Carolina jessamine

    Houstonia caerulea, bluets

    #花 @plants

    Sunlit plant with green leaves and pink stems against a blurred natural background. The red stems are where new growth and flower shoots emerge in the spring. The sunlight shines directly through the leaves and pink stems so they appear to glow with color. Some blue sky peeks through the background.
    Close-up of a yellow flower with green leaves and a blurred natural background. The sun is shining on the flowers so they appear glowing yellow with dramatic shadows. The flowers flare out like a trombone bell but with five petals arranged like a star. The petals have a crease in the middle so the ends appear heart-shaped. There is some blue sky peeking through the faded green background.
    A cluster of tiny purple flowers with green tiny leaves snuggled close to the ground. The flowers have four petals and a magenta center and emerge out of long thin brown stems. They’re very cute.

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    @plants

    Usnea subfloridana, boreal beard lichen

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    year and 1/2 ago, chipdrop arborists used a stump grinder and chopped up a lot of iris bulbs with the tree and brought the bulbs with the drop. I planted all of them and some are flowering now… a couple months early.

    And this winter was so mild, squirrels planted peanuts in the yard last fall and they survived and grew. Replanted them in the garden.

    @plants

    Partially dug up peanut seedlings on bare ground. There are five clustered together. The stalks were nibbled on by rabbits and are regrowing along the sides.

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    Went yesterday

    Can anyone identify this pine tree?

    Aralia spinosa, devil’s walking stick: leaf buds and mature leaves are edible. Buds taste like broccoli/brussel sprouts (w/o bitterness), leaves taste like salad green + asafoetida. Dried berries give me slight allergic reaction but ppl use it as a pepper substitute.

    Vaccinium corymbosum, high bush blueberry

    Acer rubrum, red maple

    @plants

    A downward-facing close-up of a young devils walkingstick with green and dark red leaves sprouting out of the top of a stem that looks like Kermit the frog projecting multiple spiking forked tongues out its wide gaping mouth. It’s a little disturbing. Faded in the background in the lower part of the pic you can see the thorns on the stem. Faded further is green and brown of the ground on the trail.
    Branch with blooming white bell-shaped flowers and light pea-green leaves against a blurred natural background. These are wild blueberries, not cultivated ones so the flowers are smaller and less profuse. The light is shining directly on the flowers so they glow white.
    Light is casting on a cluster of red maple seed pods so that they glow with color. The seed pods have long fire-engine red stems and the seed pods are so richly colored they look like beta fish tails. Towards the center of the tail where the seeds are stored, they are bright chartreuse and blush pink and red. The end of the tail fins are deeply veined orange and red. One of the seed pods in front has a tiny white caterpillar that is easily overlooked. The stems are hanging off a branch on the top right and you can see a light green leaf bud facing upwards from where the stems emerge. The background is faded forest. Mostly brown and some green leaves and stems.

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    @johntimaeus @plants I collected the berries in winter after they were mostly dried. It says online that they are safe after cooking so I microwaved a few berries but still got a mild allergic reaction: slight itchiness on contact so I spit them out.

    I kinda wanted to make a wall of thorns as revenge on squirrels and to keep ppl from stepping on the front lawn/native plant space but none of the seeds I cold-stratified germinated. Oh well.

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    Not the best pic of the bee but the lighting on the blueberry flowers was nice. 😊

    Xylocopa virginica, eastern carpenter bee on Vaccinium corymbosum, high bush blueberry 🫐

    @plants

    A bumblebee on pink and white bell-shaped flowers with a blurred green background. They are clustered on a stalk in bunches with the heaviest cluster in focus on the top left to center. The bee is hanging upside down at the base of one ripe whitish flower so that you only see its fuzzy, yellow, thorax, and black head and antennae sticking out on either side with its prickly legs cling to the flowe. The immature unopened flowers are a bright pink and look like deflated balloons. The whitish ones are more puffed out and have faded shades of pink. The lighting is late afternoon sun and it casts a yellow light that makes the flowers glow with color.
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    Cherry of the Rio Grande, Eugenia involucrata

    Jamaican cherry, Muntingia calabura

    Freaktangatuba, Eugenia selloi

    One of my pitangatubas is super sweet with low acidity and blooms in the sunroom so it’s a bit freakish.

    @plants

    A photo of a Cherry of the Rio Grande flower. The sepals are dark reddish pink and green. They fan out in a five pointed star but the bottom right is missing. There are four white petals that cup around the anthers/filaments and stamen. The filaments are clearish white and the anthers are dusty rose
    A close up pic of a Jamaican cherry flower. A grow light is in the background and is illuminating the 5 white petals from behind. The green round baby fruit is in the center and yellow anthers surround it.
    Three buds of a pitangatuba flowers. The bottom one is beginning to open and you can see white underneath the sepals. The other two are still small and green. They are cozied between two glossy dark green leaves.

    A close-up photo of a Cherry of the Rio Grande flower. The sepals are dark reddish pink and green. They fan out in a five pointed star but the bottom right is missing. There are four white petals that cup around the anthers/filaments and stamen. The filaments are clearish white and the anthers are dusty rose.
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    Enigmogramma basigera, Pink washed looper moth

    Found this fren on calamansi lime. Thought it was a cabbage white but it was actually eating the lime leaves. INaturalist says it’s the above and articles say its host plant is Lobelia.

    The pot was next to Lobelias before the seasonal plant migration. It looks well-fed and ready to cocoon so I guess we’ll see if it survived on citrus. @plants

    Pic of a green caterpillar on the underside of a green leaf. The caterpillar is a little chubby in its hind-quarters and is translucently green with lighter green veins visible through its body. The caterpillar appears to be in the act of cocooning bc it has created a dense white web at its head and derrière that is curling the leaf inward like a falafel sandwich. Behind the leaf and caterpillar are dark green glossy leaves out of focus.
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    Another plant thinks it’s spring.

    Eugenia uniflora, Zill’s black Surinam cherry

    First flowers, 3 1/2 years. Hopefully it sets fruit.

    Last year, a Eugenia involuctrata flowered just a few months shy of its 3rd birthday but didn’t set fruit.

    @plants

    Two small green buds on long thin green stems poke out of either side of a small branch. They look like insect antennae. The leaves are very glossy, small and lanceolada. Also slightly light burnt around the edges bc they are growing near a grow lamp. In the background are rocks and dirt out of focus. The rocks discourage the squirrels from digging around the trunk of the tree.
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    Cara cara orange thinks it’s spring. Really hope fruit still sets. Meanwhile the garage smells heavenly.

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    Lil garden fren

    Zelus luridus, pale green assassin bug

    Eugenia repanda, pitanga-jambo

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    A close up pic of a pale green assassin bug on a glossy small ovate leaf. The insect is a nymph so does not have wings. It has an orange-ish stripe along its back and has red eyes. Its joints are also orange-ish. The insect is facing to the right in the pic and its legs are splayed out evenly on the leaf. Its antennae are about as long as its long thin legs. The abdomen appears plumpish so has likely fed recently. The background has more green leaves out of focus.
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    Acerola cherry thinks it’s spring.

    Malpighia emarginata, December 26, zone 8b. Plant is stored in garage overwinter.

    Fortunately this is a plant that can bloom and fruit multiple times a year if warm and wet enough.

    @plants

    A close up pic of pink buds and one partially open pink flower emerging on either side of a brown branch pointing bottom right. It is connected to a larger branch that goes from lower left to top right. The pic is taken at an angle to show the four buds and one flower. The opened flower is hanging towards the bottom of the pic. The flower petals look like 5 frilly manta rays with their tails pointing to the green center of the flower.
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    Casimiroa edulis, white sapote

    My 4yr old seedling is full of flowers. So happy. 😊

    Whoever said it takes 7-8 years to flower? Lies! LIES!!

    This tree can bloom and fruit multiple times a year and is drought tolerant.

    @plants

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    If you grow any citrus at all, grow this one.

    Citrus obovata, Fukushu kumquat

    Cold hardy to 28F/-2C, can be grown in a pot. Fruits 4-5 yrs from seed.

    It’s the fruit that makes it so special. The peel is very sweet and chewy and the fruit inside balances it with a nice tartness. And bc you eat fruit+peel, it’s very nutritious.

    I sell seedlings for $15 plus shipping available in early spring. Open to reservations now.

    @plants

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    @Irisfreundin @plants did you query your search by scientific name?

    Most kumquats found in the west are the species Citrus japonica. These are bitter sour fruits.

    Fukushu (also known as Changsou) are a different species: Citrus obovata. It is reported they are related to mandarins, Citrus reticulata.

    When I lived in the EU, I never saw obovata on sale at a garden store or online, only japonica.

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    @badscooter @plants I’m in the US. But I found two retailers in the EU:

    https://agrumilenzi.it/en/negozio/kumquats/kumquatsen/changshou-kumquat-fortunella-obovata/

    https://www.promessedefleurs.com/fruitiers/agrumes/fortunella-fukushu-ou-jiangsu-kumquat-obovata.html

    less expensive and also less illegal 🤣

    jblue OP ,
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    @plants Citrus obovata, Fukushu/Changsou kumquat

    What the insides of the fruit look like.

    The peel comes away from the fruit easily and the fruit is sectional/easy to pull apart like a mandarin. The taste of the fruit is like a tart orange but the pith has sugar in it so it’s not completely sour. The peel is very sweet. Sometimes the fruit is seedless, but no more than 2 seeds per fruit.

    A Fukushu kumquat cut in half on a bamboo wooden cutting board. The fruit is orange, the pith is white and the peel is orange.

    jblue , to Permaculture
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    Ready to ship tomorrow 💚🌱

    (Native plant food security project)

    @plants

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