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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I had my desert class there last weekend- there were snow showers in the area and the light was just wonderful.

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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Thunderstorm got me trapped in my little greenhouse with two dogs and a beer.

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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Atala, Eumaeus atala, at Selby Botanical Garden in Sarasota. Larvae feed on cycads!

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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

iNat says this is Ammophila pictipennis. How does this waist make any sense?

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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Merch for UF’s national championship, which was played in San Antonio, Texas. Whoever chose the background was absolutely trolling this botanist. Saguaro-itis strikes again.

Florida gators basketball championship t-shirt with cacti growing on a mountainous coastline.

Closeup of a saguaro 🌵 cactus. This species doesn’t occur within 800 miles of San Antonio, Texas.

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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Our pinxterflower is popping nicely too. Love wild azaleas.

Rhododendron canescens, Florida Pinxter Azalea.

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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Quote post with a picture you took in a National Park. Some UF Biology students who journeyed from Florida to study the biodiversity of the desert southwest- here completing an incredible hike of Arch Canyon, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. This class doesn’t happen w/o our public lands!

UF Desert Biodiversity immersion course at Organ Pipe.

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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Hmm… I just realized sometimes they use Parafilm for bananas.

Banana bunch with the end wrapped in parafilm.

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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

It’s early but Gators got the #1 team doubled up!

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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Final grades will be posted as soon as I’m able.

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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

These guys were nestled in the inner petals. Trigonopelastes delta according to iNat.

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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Variation among the Asimina angustifolia (Annonaceae) around the house.

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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I love the bark of live oaks, oh hey…

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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The US *already* has tariffs, import quotas, and subsidies that basically mean Americans have been paying ~ double the world price of sugar. Main beneficiaries are 3 sugar outfits in near the Everglades. Lots of ecological fallout, and also why we use so much corn syrup in this country.

Graphic showing monthly price of sugar in the USA, the EU, and the world.

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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Today is the first day of the season in Florida where it’s slightly cooler outside than inside, and I just saw someone walking a huge (panting) pit bull in a pink sweater and dog crocs.

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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Ch-ch-ch-chia, with pet. First time finding Salvia hispanica as a volunteer in the yard.

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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

November and the Epiphyllum cactus is still chugging along in our oak tree.

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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Plant disease, hort folks: any recommendations for my kumquat and mandarin trees? (N. Fl). On the kumquat only older leaves are yellowing but on the mandarin, they seem to yellow shortly after reaching full size. Is this greening or just a nutrient issue?

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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Here’s a couple Quercus hemisphaerica from previous tropical storms. Gotta burn the piles to make way for the ones that just came down with Helene and Milton!

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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

This is one of those species, in a weird family, that I’ve known about for years but never knowingly run across in bloom. Crossosoma bigelovii, Crossosomataceae. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

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Norm Douglas @ringstem.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Scenes from the first field day of UF Desert Biodiversity 2024…

The class posing at the famous Death Valley thermometer, indicating 73 degrees F

Badwater Basin at sunset with Lake Manley stream Ching into the distance.

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