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Botany Hacks
Tips and tricks for plant nerds



Excessive Oak Junk - Huge Acorns (Round Fruits of Unusual Size)
Oak Life Lesson: Coordination helps you breed with your neighbors & overload your hungry enemies. Bigger nuts are cool, but not best.


New Zealand’s Strip Forest Tease: alpine edge tree line
Why does New Zealand seem to have a dense and stark forest strip, with the trees ending sharply compared to other global regions?


Dying Season- make natural dye/ink
Making and testing natural inks & dyes from fruits and flowers in PNW.


Yellow Wallflower Distinctions- Erysimum capitatum vs arenicola species
Differences between WA Erysimum species- yellow Erysimum capitatum vs arenicola.


Camas: common or death?
Edible or lethal plants. Comparing and admiring common camas with death-camas, and a few native plant relatives in the PNW.


Oaks Don’t Make Apples
Oak apples aren't a fruit, they're a gall from a wasp and they may not be edible but you can use them for home-made ink.


Spring Bulbs: Eat-Me-Nots
All about the popular spring bulbs that are nearly all varying levels of toxic


Blue bee-balls: Rare but totally natural from blue pollen
Special plants make unique blue pollen and pollen can come in a range of colors too.


By the Warmth of Campfire- To burn or not to burn
Info about whether you should have a camp fire in the wild and fire safety from ecological view
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