Blue bee-balls: Rare but totally natural from blue pollen
Ever seen blue balls on a bee? Possibly not what you think, but they do get them. Bee blue-balls is more accurately bee blue-baskets (on...
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Welcome to the Natural Coalescence Blog
Here you will find botanical tales and planty fun of all kinds with botany nerding and ecology through a entertaining lens.
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PNW Tree of Life: WRCedar
There are many cool trees all over the world and possibly more than our 'fair share' in the Pacific northwest due to the variety of...
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Blue thou art… whence came thy dazzling hue?
Blue flowers are the RAREST color. I’ve noticed this for a long time. And it makes sense. But it is also confusing and weird and...
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Avalanche Bros: Erythronium grandiflorum
There’s a disturbance in the woods. The snow has melted in most places, the skiers have slipped away with the entrance of spring. And...
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The Dahlia Delight
Plant obsessions go through trends, just like the huge tulip obsession and flash trade market that was huge for a short time, then...
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Some Call Me Chocolate
You know how it is. When you're a pretty little thing with a brown complexion, folks tend to nickname ya "Chocolate". Not that I have...
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Crinkly Crocus
Hey ya doll. Don’t you mind me, or should I say “us”. We certainly don’t mind this snow that can’t resist showing up again after a long...
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The Marvelous Ms. Malus: She's no bad apple.
At the edge of a forest, near a centennial remnant of crumbling cedar fence, there’s a gnarled struggling tree of knotted branch tangles...
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Trailer Park Shorties – Roadside Bicolors
Lupinus bicolor: tough little cuties perfectly at home next to a hot compacted gravel road. We’re tiny cuties you can find along quite a...
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