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Mel 📎🐟🌲⚓🌳🌊 @norska11.bsky.social · 13h

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Here's Begonia tayabensis, a Rhizomatous type of species Begonia w/distinctive foliage from the Philippines. Shiny, teardrop shaped deep green leaves. Blooms: small, pink. Origin: Merrill, Philipp. Published: 1918. Able to tolerate 58 degree nights in winter greenhouses. Easy to grow.🌱 #begonias

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Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 10h

Honey, somebody glued the Begonia to the tree!

Mel 📎🐟🌲⚓🌳🌊 @norska11.bsky.social · 13h

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Here's Begonia potpourri, a Trailing-Scandant type of hybrid Begonia from the USA. Medium green, pointed leaves - makes a perfect hanging basket. Blooms: beautiful pink clusters. Origin: Logee's Greenhouses, Danielson Connecticut, USA 1984. Easy care houseplant.🌱 #begonias

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 11h

Odds and ends 🌱🌵🪴 #PlantSky #Succulents #Houseplants

Small mixed succulent pot containing haworthiopsis 'concolor', sedum 'burrito' and sedum sexangulare

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Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 11h

Pinguicula colimensis is the slimiest of all Pings. 😂 #Pinguicula #Ping #Lentibulariaceae 🌱

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Mel 📎🐟🌲⚓🌳🌊 @norska11.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They are all so fabulous...I love them, Bagels. 😍

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Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It also reminds me of some varieties of lettuce, and I can't say that I'm not tempted... 😂🐰

Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When the whole is better than the sum of its parts...

Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ha ha! I like food that makes me sweat. 😂

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here’s another cultivar of the former Rhodohypoxis, Hypoxis ‘Picta’ (📷: Carol CCBYNCSA2). How I wish I could grow these in the rock garden! #Hypoxidaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Photo of dozens of white, star-shaped flowers with elliptical tepals that are rosy pink toward the bases and the tips. The inner tepals are somewhat s-shaped so that the base of the tepal folds toward the center of the flower, hiding the stamens, before turning outward and presenting a broad elliptical surface.

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Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They're called Bryophyllum en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryophy...

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Bryophyllum - Wikipedia

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hypoxidaceae flowers lack nectaries, so they don’t offer nectar rewards. (But biologists need to check for micro amounts of nectar from diffuse nectaries.) The flowers have plenty of pollen & are visited by bees. 📷: Hypoxis hemerocallidea of southern Africa. #Hypoxidaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Close-up photo of a yellow, star-shaped flower with six tepals and six yellow anthers. Adjacent flower buds are hairy. Background foliage is grassy, folded (plicate) leaves. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

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Agree wholeheartedly!

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Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

😂 I like its parent plant, the oldie but goody, B. Teupel.

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This entire group of trailing-scandent Begonias from Africa is fabulous.

Mel 📎🐟🌲⚓🌳🌊 @norska11.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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This trailing African Begonia does not have the usual yellow blooms, but when it's trained on a small trellis or wire frame, I think it can be quite pretty. It is incredibly easy to grow, too. B. loranthoides ssp. rhopalocarpa🌱

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Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I rather not look in its general direction... 😂

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Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here's Begonia 'Can Can', a Rex cultorum type of hybrid Begonia from Germany. Large, metallic pink leaves w/ charcoal grey veins, deeply divided. Blooms: n/a, likely pink or white. Origin: Teupel, Germany 1956. Published: n/a. Likes extra humidity.🌱 #begonias

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Harmony Foliage ftw! They have been doing such great work in all categories, it seems.

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Vague Pariah @vaguepariah.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here's Begonia 'Harmony's Gypsy', a Cane-like type of hybrid Begonia from the USA. Large, angel wing shaped, olive green leaves w/ faint white spots & red undersides. Blooms: peach-orange. Origin: Harmony Foliage, Sorrento FL, USA. Easy care houseplant.🌱 #begonias

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Sansevieria hallii bloom erupting 🌱

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Bertha @fraubertha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Gartenbesuch im Brandenburgischen. 🌱 #gardening #Gottesanbeterin

Gottesanbeterin auf dem Rand eines Korbes.

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Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think that every cuisine has a version of "meat-and-potato" slow cooked or quick fried in the skillet soul-food, but to be honest with you, I like caribbean seasoning better. 😂

Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You know it! :D We used to fry it up with some potatoes and seasonal veggies.

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Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@norska11.bsky.social Hey Mel! Here are the (so far) finished Pinguicula mini-bogs. My label maker has gone missing, and I want it to look neater than my hand writing, so I'll wait for the new label maker to arrive tomorrow until posting the pics here. bagelsofdoom.substack.com/p/more-mini-...

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More mini Pinguicula boggery

They call them Pingdoms in the hobby

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Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I grew up in Germany, and blood sausage is a delicacy there, and my grandma used to make the homemade variety. It's not as scary as it sounds. 😂

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Chilli Chirps @chillichirps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Candy Cane Chocolate Cherry sweet peppers. Intense variegation, along with chunky flesh, makes these quite slow to ripen, but they're a real joy when they do. Like a stick of rock, the striping goes all the way through, so they look incredible when sliced into rings (will try to get a pic) 🌱🌶️

Five red peppers, flecked with raindrops, sit on a wooden table. They are oval in shape, striped with black, and about 3 inches long. The calyxes are striped green and cream.

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Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That's Atlantic rainforest, which is a little bit cooler. 🙃😂

Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oooohhhh!!! This one is so pretty. African Begonias ftw!

Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lowland species should be able to take a little bit more heat at adequate humidity, which is nice.

Mel 📎🐟🌲⚓🌳🌊 @norska11.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Here's Begonia langenbergiana, a Rhizomatous type of species Begonia from limestone rocks in damp Brazilian rainforest at 50-1000 m alt. Leaves kidney-shaped, slightly bubbly at base, corded overlapping, denticulate-dentate, prominent veins, hirsute. Blooms: white. Needs high humidity.🌱 #begonias

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Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

IKR? One thing we always should keep in mind as hobbyists is that we can do our little part as well.

Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@norska11.bsky.social Check this one out. His collection is completely insane, and juxtaposes natural beauty with environmental destruction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpoX...

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This Botanist Discovers New Plant Species

YouTube video by Jake Inzerra

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straybird @attenuata.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

August ’26 - Late summer color of Aloes tucked between basalt or rhyolite boulders. From bottom to top, Aloe cameronii (Cameron's Ruwari Aloe or Red Aloe), Aloe 'Cynthia Giddy', Aloe Swordfish, Espostoa lanata (‘peruvian old man’). 🌱 #succulents

End of summer colorful Aloes and cactus wedged between cascading volcanic boulders

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Mel 📎🐟🌲⚓🌳🌊 @norska11.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They are so pretty, aren't they? Both the pink and orange one are from Brazil. This is how/why I started trying to help you/Palm Oil Detectives back during the pandemic days. Check these out-all from SE Asia. If we keep chopping down rainforests for palm oil/junk food, all of these will go away. 💔

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Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's aquarium-grit. I switched to all grit (aquarium-grit, Akadama, a touch of charcoal, and just a little bit of peat) because these plants really don't need all the organic stuff.

Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Those are 6" bulb pans, so doesn't take up a lot of real estate, and eats fungus gnats.

Bagels of Doom @bagelsofdoom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Its European counterpart is called "Pfaffenhütchen" or "cardinal's hats" in German. uk.inaturalist.org/taxa/55847-E...

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