Had no idea about this, ty. Usually my local bees enter a drug-fueled rolling-around state inside my magnolia flowers (it's a sight to behold), will have to watch and see if any beetles also visit mine.
Had a Gingko tree outside my childhood home up in Washington. We were right down the highway from Ginkgo Petrified Forest too. It was wild knowing a tree like the one at home stood just down the road ~ 16 MYA. Yeah, there aren't a lot of gingkos in that park, and there's plenty of other trees that have the same circumstance, but that gingko was special to me.
I've always been a fan of the prehistoric plants ( though if I'm being pedantic the vast majority of plants are prehistoric). Araucaria and Dicksonia are the best of the best!
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Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 21 pts · 284d
But they have names already.
WaterWaiver@aussie.zone · 16 pts · 284d
I do not think a single one of your photos shows flowers or spores. Prude!
Cycads? Disgusting.
As a Magnolia man I'm feeling left out.
EDIT: Just showed my mum, she agrees on every point, including Cycads being gross. "Tell them I'm on the warpath and I'm coming after you"
riskable@programming.dev · 9 pts · 284d
Magnolias with beetle pollination FTW! 😤
WaterWaiver@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 282d
Had no idea about this, ty. Usually my local bees enter a drug-fueled rolling-around state inside my magnolia flowers (it's a sight to behold), will have to watch and see if any beetles also visit mine.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 283d
And now:
No. 3: The Larch
Ignot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 283d
Theeee Laaarch
Seleni@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 284d
Ginkgo and Arucaria for beating out almost all the others in the game of survival lol
I guess Nypa & Acrocomia are cool too
KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 281d
Had a Gingko tree outside my childhood home up in Washington. We were right down the highway from Ginkgo Petrified Forest too. It was wild knowing a tree like the one at home stood just down the road ~ 16 MYA. Yeah, there aren't a lot of gingkos in that park, and there's plenty of other trees that have the same circumstance, but that gingko was special to me.
SleepyBear@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 284d
Gotta be the Dicksonia. Dicksonia mom HAH
Mothra@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 283d
I've always been a fan of the prehistoric plants ( though if I'm being pedantic the vast majority of plants are prehistoric). Araucaria and Dicksonia are the best of the best!
oyfrog@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 283d
Arborescence is one of my favorite examples of convergent evolution .
Serialchemist@ttrpg.network · 3 pts · 284d
Fan palms. Still hang out with Washingtonia and Robusta from time to time
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 284d
The pine. Looks like a cross between asparagus and broccoli.
myrrh@ttrpg.network · 13 pts · 283d
Drusas@fedia.io · 4 pts · 283d
Looks like horsetail to me.
Edit: lol, I should have read all the names first. Apparently horsetail descends from it.
HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 283d
Sigillaria is so cute!!!
postcapitalism@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 283d
Fucking sad