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welcome to BSP! iβm quill, i love plant science, we are all here to have a good time.
BEFORE SENDING AN ASK:
-i do not do plant identifications. this is because plant ID down to the species can be pretty tricky and takes time, and its best to have the plant in front of you while you do it, not to mention that iβm only well-versed in iowa plants (my home state). if youβre in the USA, itβs likely your local/state DNR or USDA office will have a key to local plants up on their website. iβm in the process of compiling a resource list for plant ID state-by-state in the US and US territories, Iβll get that up as soon as i can
-plant care stuff is similar, mostly because even though i know a lot about plants on a scientific level, im TERRIBLE at taking care of actual plants. iβm actually best versed in commercial greenhouse care and diseases/plant pathology on a wider scale. at some point iβll try to get a basic resource list for better plant care stuff up, too
-i donβt check my dms unless you send me an ask specifically pointing it out; i do, however, read every ask i get, although i get enough that i canβt respond to all of them!!
-because i started this blog in high school, some of the older posts on here can be inaccurate or poorly worded; typically my newer posts are better sourced and executed and stuff imo.
THE BEST POSTS ON THIS BLOG (under construction as i remember more i really like):
- βCan u tell me about mossβ (moss crash course post)
- βwhat's the dumbest piece of plant anatomy. where do you look at a plant and you're like "why did evolution do this instead of literally anything else"β and (similar topic) βso when i see museum paleobotany illustration like especially pre-cenozoic most of the plants look intuitively 'simpler' to me; more cartoonish than modern plants, even modulo the overall realism of the illustration. i vaguely assumed this was because they were based on degraded fossil evidence, but lately i was thinking it's not inconceivable that morphology actually tended simpler in the past. any insight?β
- βWhats a lichen if not a plantβ and (similar topic) βWhat exactly IS a lichen?? Pls im just an artist who only knows that plants are prettyβ (closest current post to a lichen crash course)
