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DIJ Tokyo @dijtokyo.org · 30/07/2026

NEW on the Sustainability in Japan and Beyond blog: "Embedding Biodiversity in the Built Environment: The Gohon no Ki Initiative“ Sarah Stark examines Sekisui House's "Gohon no Ki" (five plants) initiative, and its ecological & sociological implications ▶️ sustainability.hypotheses.org/2898 (1/3)

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Embedding Biodiversity in the Built Environment: The Gohon no Ki Initiative

In 2001, the Japanese homebuilder Sekisui House began planting five carefully selected native plants in every new home it built. Over twenty-five years, this has resulted in more than 20 million plant...

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Rogue White House Botanist @roguewhbotanist.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Spigelia marilandica 'Little Redhead' in a woodland garden. #wildflowerhour #nativeplants 🌱

Red tubular blooms on a Spigelia growing in a shade garden.

A shade garden path with a mass of red-blooming Spigelia.

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va-nated.bsky.social @va-nated.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

🇨🇦 Parc du Mont-Royal in Montreal was designed by Frederick Law Olmstead. Other Olmstead parks in Rock Creek in DC and Central Park in NY. His goal was to design a place that beckoned you forward and yet felt natural.

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being.earth @being.earth · 27/09/2025

Grocery store in Anta, Peru.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

🍽️ September is National Mushroom Month! What better way than to celebrate than with a Mushroom Forest Focaccia? As a garden designer, I often bring my botanical interests into the kitchen! #gardenscape #mushrooms

A collection of cooked mushrooms, ready for assembly. From top left, clockwise: brown shimeji, shiitake, king trumpet, maitake (hen of the woods), and lion's mane. The mushrooms have all been baked or sautéed before placing on the focaccia.

A closeup of the assembled Mushroom Forest Focaccia, featuring Maitake (hen of the woods), Yellow Oyster Mushrooms, Brown Shimeji, King Tower and Enoki Mushrooms. Sprigs of dill, chives, asparagus spears, and Italian parsley are also tucked into the mix.

An overhead view of the assembled Mushroom Forest Focaccia, ready for baking.

Fresh out of the oven! Overhead view of the toasted Mushroom Forest Focaccia with herbs, ready to serve. The parmesan cheese has browned into a lovely golden crust.

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FungiJoJofromCanada @fungijojo.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Happy National Mushroom Month! The entire month of September is a celebration of all things fungi. Learn different ways to cook with mushrooms, explore mycology, and try new varieties this month. ❤️🍄❤️

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

🌿🌱Lilium michauxii (synonym: Lilium carolinianum), official wildflower of North Carolina, noted for its heady fragrance. Named for Andre Michaux, a noted 18th Century naturalist and explorer of the Southeastern United States. #NativePlants

Close up of an orange lily with long green filaments and brown anthers extending below the flower. An image of a second lily can be seen in the background.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

🌱🌿 Hymenocallis coronaria (cahaba lily, catawba lily, shoal lily, shoal spider lily) native only to AL, GA, SC, parts of NC. Under consideration of the Endangered Species Act. Only 50 populations left in the 3 states. A significant population remains in the Broad River, GA. #NativePlants #SciArt

Vintage botanical illustration of a white spider lily with a broad green leaf to the left, and an illustration of the bulb on the right. S.T. Edwards - Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, vol. 36: t. 1467 (1812)

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

🌱August bloomer: Lycoris x straminea 'Caldwell's Original', a fall-foliage emerging hybrid. #lycoris

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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Peaches. Prunus persica cultivars including nectarines and some wild relatives like davids’peach P. davidiana, the rare fergana-peach P. ferganensis and hybrids to the almond; P. x amygdalopersica. Photographed with the help of the INRAE peach collection.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Current obsession (well one of them anyway): Lithops aka stone succulents. Better than gemstones in a jewelry box. #Lithops #StoneSucculents

A closeup view of a bowl of Lithops, aka stone succulents. They actually look like the cross section of a brain when you think about it! There are numerous colors and each one has two sections which mirror each other. They are green, gold, mauve, sand, and rust.

Closeup view of a spotted, rose-colored Lithops with a pale green, open mouth.

Overhead view of a pot of Lithops in a round white pot on a slatted table.

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Poisonous plant and fungi colorized wood engravings by Scottish artist Jonathan Johnstone, 1855.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

NEW. Lavandula stoechas 'La Diva Big Night' is the first cross between Spanish and English Lavender, with especially good heat and humidity tolerance. Great news for those of us in the South. It's also hardy to Zone 6. 🌱🌿 #herbs #herbgarden

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Lavandula La Diva Big Night 4in Spanish Lavender

La Diva Big Night Spanish Lavender. Dark purple flowers with lighter purple bracts in spring and summer. Evergreen perennial. Zones 6-9. Full sun. 10-14 in. tall and 12-24 in. wide.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Cape Fuchsia (Phygelius) with its tubular blossoms attracts butterflies and hummingbirds. "Phygelius" comes from the Greek word "phyge", meaning flight or avoidance, "in consequence of its having so long escaped the research of botanists" according to W.J. Hooker (1855). Native to South Africa. 🌱🌿

Ruby-red tubular flowers line the dark stems of the Cape Fuchsia, which tower above a mound of green foliage.

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The State of the State Parks Podcast @stateofthesp.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Clevland sage (Salvia clevelandii) We have decided you are our favorite sage! Smells soooooo goood! 🥰 Stateofthestateparks.com #CaliforniaNativePlants #iNat #photography #NaturePhotography #Bloomscrolling #oc #parks 🌱 #nature #plantsky

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Christine Warren BSN, RN @askaham.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Goodbye Redwood Forest -- The blue areas are what EO 14225 has marked for deforestation. These are old growth forests, protected by law.

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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

A bit of yellow for the #NativePlants feed 🌱 - Yellow wild indigo (Baptisia tinctoria) in bloom

Yellow flowers on wild yellow indigo plant

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Rhododendron 'Abbey's Re-view' is a prolific spring bloomer... and is supposed to rebloom in the fall, but I've never had that happen. However, it IS spectacular in bloom, also heat and drought tolerant and so recognized by the American Rhododendron Society, Rhododendron of the Year Award 2018.🌱🌿

Rhododendron in full bloom with its lilac-purple flowers completely covering the shrub which is now about 10' tall. A magnificent shrub for full shade gardens because it really stands out in spring.

Close-up of the blooms with a little sunlight to highlight the extraordinarily vibrant, lilac tones.

The rhododendron is so completely covered with lilac-colored blooms in spring, you can hardly see any foliage.

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Rogue White House Botanist @roguewhbotanist.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Indigofera suffruticosa 🌱🌿 was popular as a highly prized source of blue dye in the 17th and 18th centuries where it still grows wild on the north end of Georgia’s Ossabaw Island at North End Plantation, the site of a colonial-era indigo plantation. History in AltText.

A detail from the 1780 map of South Carolina by William DeBrahm depicting enslaved men agitating the liquid (background) and cutting the dried dyestuff into squares (foreground).

In the year 1775, South Carolina exported more than one million pounds of dried indigo cakes to England. That record-high output was immediately followed by a near collapse of the industry. The commencement of the American Revolution, which followed years of simmering political tensions, permanently dismantled the traditional mercantile links between American farmers and British customers. Some South Carolina planters continued to grow indigo and to produce the dye during the eight-year war, but they had a difficult time finding customers for the product.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Scots Pine from the book Wurzelatlas, a study on root research by Lore Kutschera, Erwin Lichtenegger and Monika Sobotik, all members of the Austrian Pflanzensoziologische Institut. 🌿🌱 More: doorofperception.com/2022/11/wurz...

A black and white illustration of a Scots Pine. The tree is growing above ground, but below the surface is an illustration of the expansive root system of the tree which grown much deeper than the tree is tall.

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The napping birder @thenappingbirder.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Mr Hooded in profile #birds

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Steve Nellis @snellis.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

🌱Ah! The large red trillium I missed the other day… it was lurking underneath the acanthus.

Looking at the large almost lettuce green leaves with deep crimson flower petals. Larger darker green acanthus leaves surround.

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Steve Sanderson @steve-sando1.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Young Peregrine out on Bodmin moor today. Very rarely see them here, so bit of a treat. #UKWildlife #Birds #Birding #birdphotography #nature

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 26/03/2025

To design a garden that supports the greatest number and diversity of pollinators, don’t worry about what your neighbors are doing or not doing. Just focus on planting different kinds of flowers – and lots of them.

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Dreaming of spring gardening? Bees and other pollinators like a variety of flowers

For those thinking ahead to spring gardening, a biologist explains what to focus on when designing a garden with pollinators in mind and what not to worry about.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

'tis the season. Left: Narcissus Kedron, bred by Willis Wheeler, a mid 20th century daffodil breeder and officer in the American Daffodil Association. Right: Narcissus Sailboat is a William Pannill award-winner. Both produce up to 3 blooms per stem, and perform well in the Southeast. 🌱🌿

A large mass planting of golden daffodils with mango-orange cups and strappy green foliage. The ground is covered in pine bark.

A handsome cluster of small white daffodils with butter yellow cups and strappy green foliage. The white petals are swept back from the cups like sails, thus the name of this daffodil: Sailboat. The ground is covered in pine bark.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

March 21. 🌱🌿 Happy International Day of Forests May the forest be with you.

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Honey Girl Grows @honeygirlgrows.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Update on the nest I predicted for our custom living herb & berry wall outside a kitchen door. Studies show greater biodiversity in living wall gardens: 56 more species (9 more species of birds, + over 2600 morphospecies). 🌱 Birds nest in ours - every client we install! Black Phoebe nest Los Angeles

Black Phoebe best in accustomed home chef’s living herb, and strawberry wall garden, surrounded by cilantro

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ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social @ebbiegoodfellow.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Blustery and rainy late winter day, so didn't feel like working outside. Instead, here is a photo of blue-winged wasps on a rigid goldenrod from last September. #nativeplants #wasps

Close up of black and brown wasp on yellow flowers.

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TraceyT @traceytaylor.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

🌱#Gardening A tangle of Calendulas and an Allium skeleton along with some purple & white Candytuft flowers and Evening Scented Stocks peeping through, to remind myself (notwithstanding getting hailed upon again just the day before yesterday!🥶) that better gardening days are on the way.

Photo depicts a tangle of Calendulas ranging in colour from bright orange to mid-orange to golden yellow with an Allium skeleton and some purple & white Candytuft & Evening Scented Stocks peeping through.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Radiant Yellow Icicle Tower by Dale Chihuly, 30' tall, Atlanta Botanical Garden. #SundayYellow #Chihuly #sculpture

A brilliant golden yellow tower of glass icicles in a botanical garden near a long rectangular pool. It is early spring and the leaves are beginning to appear on the trees nearby. It is a cloudy day, so the yellow glass tower is particularly spectacular.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

It's #SixOnSaturday 🌱🌿 and time for tulips and everything pink. Flower ID in AltText #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling

Clockwise from top left: Hyacinth Woodstock (deep magenta with pale lavender violets); Tulip Margarita (a tall single deep pink bloom with a purple stripe on the petals, in focus); two different tulips: Purple Flag (dark purple) & Flaming Flag (striped); Rhododendron Abbey's Review (a cluster of pink blooms); and purple stock (clusters of lavender blooms).

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Now on Android too...

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Rare: Magnolia sinostellata is an endangered species, listed on the Red List of Magnoliaceae since 2016. "With many species popular in cultivation for their beautiful flowers and foliage, magnolias act as attractive flagships for tree conservation worldwide." - IUCNredlist.org established in 1964.🌱🌿

Pink and white blooms of a rare, deciduous magnolia in full bloom. The back of the petals have a rosy-pink stripe in the center of a pure white bloom.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Dream Touch Tulip: this double-peony, early flowering tulip has rich, magenta-plum tones and snowy-white edging. The blooms are set off when combined with shades of yellow violas, Sedum Angelina, and the lacy foliage of a Hinoki cypress. 🌱 #tulips #gardeningfeed

Deep burgundy Dream Touch double tulips with white edging, surrounded by pale yellow violas, a golden conifer and trailing Sedum Angelina.

A close up of the double-petaled, plum-toned Dream Touch Tulip.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Finally. We've been waiting for more than 3 months for this tree to arrive from Iseli Nursery in Orgegon. Worth the wait, as the final specimen for a landscape renovation we completed late last year: Picea omorika 'Pendula Bruns' (weeping Norway spruce). #GardenDesign #gardeningfeed 🌱🌿

A 12' tall, narrow weeping spruce in a winter landscape. There is a wooden fence running behind the tree and a number of deciduous trees highlighted by a blue sky.

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City Mouse Garden @citymousegarden.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

#NativePlants you should add next year (search plant name + range map to see if it’s a fit for you): Cephalanthus occidentalis (Buttonbush). Full sun/part shade. Perfect for wet soil but ours grows well in dry clay. We grow small cultivar because of limited space. #Pollinators magnet. #gardening 🌱

Beautiful unblemished glossy green foliage, small green buds and one perfect white Sputnik bloom.

Closeup of a single Sputnik bloom covered in tiny white blooms with long pointy yellow-tipped extensions.

Shiny green foliage with blooming white orbs and a purple Liatris just beginning to bloom.

Bright orange-red seed heads after the blooms have faded in late summer.

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UCDavisPlants @ucdavisplants.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🌲An international group of researchers discussed how drought-driven forest mortality is rising, yet critical gaps remain in tree #drought physiology. New management strategies are the key to long-term resilience. (Laura Boger) ▶️ nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Forests #PlantBiology

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Tree drought physiology: critical research questions and strategies for mitigating climate change effects on forests

Droughts of increasing severity and frequency are a primary cause of forest mortality associated with climate change. Yet, fundamental knowledge gaps regarding the complex physiology of trees limit t...

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Lou Nicholls @loujnicholls.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Good morning! Another sunny day so more work on the veg beds There's a possibility of a small shower tomorrow but in all honesty it's unlikely My dahlias are arriving soon!!! Have an excellent day Picture is of Abutilon pictum 'Red dragon'

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Sean 👨‍🌾🌻 @gardenwithme.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Returning these to the library today 📚🌱 What books should I pick up next? #vegetablegardening

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Hand-colored engraving, Johann Theodor de Bay (1612), Florilegium Novum, Yale University Art Gallery. 🌿🌱 #tulips #gardeningfeed #SciArt #botanicalart

A colored illustration of a collection of tulips in red, gold, and orange tones. There is also an illustration of a tulip bulb in the lower right corner.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Picea orientalis 'Skylands'. One of my favorite #conifers. I planted a pair of these more than 20 years ago for a client, and the new homeowner wants to find another one. They're from a nursery in Oregon. Best with some shade here in the south, remarkably tolerant of our Georgia heat & humidity. 🌱

A glorious spruce tree in the center with golden green needles. It has draping branches packed with short needles with a narrow growing habit. To the left are the branches of a deodar cedar.

Close up of the golden yellow and green needles of the Skylands Spruce.

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Sometimes you just need to spend some time under the Saucer #Magnolia (Magnolia x soulangeana) tree in full bloom in the late afternoon light and breath in that heady perfume. A short 🧵 #Fujifilm X-S10 and #Sony Nex-3N #BloomScrolling #FlowerReport #Photography

Two pale pink saucer magnolia blooms lit by the crisp late afternoon sun with strands of Spanish Moss twining around their branch on the left.

A single Saucer Magnolia bloom, late afternoon shining through it's petals, causing them to glow pink, pale at the petal tips, darker and more intense as the petals near the center of the flower.

A close up photo of the cone like center of the Saucer Magnolia flower, the many dark red, pollen laden stamens surrounding the central ovary itself surrounded by the large broad petals, a gorgeous pink on the outer surface, brilliant white inside

A cluster of Saucer Magnolia flowers, their broad pink pink petals aglow in the late afternoon light. Spanish moss coated limbs and other blooms are softly out of focus in the background.

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Dahlia Bloom @dahliabloom.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

🌱Welcome to the Southeastern Gardeners feed! Click on this post for more information about it. 🌱

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Search for #NativePlants by zip code at the Audubon Society and you'll also discover which birds are attracted to those plants. You'll also be shown an option to buy locally or order online. My list is for northern Atlanta. 🌱🌿 www.audubon.org/native-plant...

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Native plants - Best results page

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Julie Thompson-Adolf @juliethompsonadolf.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The golden witch hazel against the blue, blue sky is a tiny glimmer of joy in our screwed up world. Find your glimmers of joy. 🌱

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Nick in NC @nicknc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

A spring bowl of hellebores and Edgeworthia. I think my favorite this year is the one with radiating stripes in a star shape, a chance seedling from the ‘Apricot Blush’ seed strain. 🌱

Hellebore flowers with varying colors and petal numbers are floating face-up in a black hexagonal bowl along with three clusters of yellow-and-ivory Edgeworthia flowers.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

🌱 Some sunny daffodils for a Saturday. Searching for garden friends.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Tulip 'Crystal Star' and Anemone Giant 'Lord Lieutenant'.🌱 a

A photograph on a sunny day with bright yellow fringe tulips mixed with lavender-blue anemones.

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Paul @paulst001.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

White spring crocus flowers

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