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primalux.thedeadbird.club
I have a 55 gal tank I use as a carnivorous & epiphytic plant terrarium. These tiny guys popped out a few months ago when I was running the mister. I've had this kind of snail appear in other terrariums - I don't know the species but I assume eggs are coming in on the dried sphagnum or other mosses
A hand with long sharp nude nails is pressed against the outside glass of a terrarium. On the inside of the glass, an extremely small (2-3mm) snail is crawling A hand with long sharp nude nails is pressed against the outside glass of a terrarium. On the inside of the glass, an extremely small (2-3mm) snail is crawling. This is a different snail than the previous picture
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
aobp.bsky.social
♻️Differentiation in water adaptation strategy between epiphytic and terrestrial species of Cymbidium, Orchidaceae by Tian-Yang Gao and co-authors.

Full #openaccess
👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp...

#PlantScience
Soil microbiota enhance the population growth rate of a nitrogen-fixing herbaceous legume
Abstract. Soil microbiota can modify a plant’s growth and chemistry, with consequences for plant population persistence. Therefore, an approach that consid
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November 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
davidleegardens.bsky.social
A little rainforest corner.
A tall glass terrarium filled with a lush mix of epiphytic bromeliads and air plants. The largest plants have long, arched leaves in shades of bright green with soft pink highlights. Several spiky gray-green Tillandsia cluster around driftwood pieces, clinging naturally. Below them, jewel orchids with dark leaves and fine red-gold veining grow in the shaded lower layer. The tank is positioned on a dark wood stand, and warm lighting from above gives the display a tropical, humid atmosphere. A densely planted terrarium with colorful bromeliads, air plants, and jewel orchids arranged vertically on wood and moss under warm grow lighting.
November 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
hendygardenlove.bsky.social
A bit of goblincore for tonight's feed. Epiphytic ferns (Polypodium) and mosses with water tricking down the rock face
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
sim-elliott.bsky.social
Only just found out there is a #ThickTrunkTuesday! Here's my think trunk of the day! So thick its broken a dry stone wall. Pollarded Quercus petraea, Sessile Oak, with epiphytic Polypody fern; below Nab Scar, north of Rydal Water. Cumbria. The Lake District. UK
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
rhigu.bsky.social
Its Jeff time of year.
Jeff is a columnea gloriosa. Hes a long trailing epiphytic vine with red tinged leaves. He has many orange and yellow blooms that resemble flying fish.
November 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
aspenecology.com
2/2 …for conservation of all three, insofar as significant proportion of their global populations are found here. Fascinatingly, P cyanoloma often serves as substrate itself for another #lichen: Normandina pulchella! Note its bright green squamules growing on lobes below. Isle of Eigg, Scotland.
Normandina pulchella & Pectenia (Degelia) cyanoloma : Scotland : VC104 North Ebudes : NM4884 : August 2025 : On Acer trunk (N. pulchella epiphytic on P. cyanoloma)
November 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
gbifmorpho.bsky.social
New paper in PLOS One using @gbif.org mediated data:

Evolutionary origins and life-history correlates of coloniality in the epiphytic fern genus Platycerium (Polypodiaceae)

#CiteTheDOI: ❌

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0329099
Evolutionary origins and life-history correlates of coloniality in the epiphytic fern genus Platycerium (Polypodiaceae)
Many animals live in cooperative groups comprised of morphologically differentiated individuals that subdivide labour to help the group persist in harsh, unpredictable environments. Recently it has be...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
jamiemales.bsky.social
Beautiful epiphytic Astelia in the Ruahine Forest Park 🇳🇿
October 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
respublications.bsky.social
New #OpenAccess research by @xaalii.bsky.social et al. in #RESEcolEnt reports on how height and #phytotelm size affect the #invertebrate #communities of epiphytic #bromeliads in the Amazon rainforest.
doi.org/10.1111/een.70030

@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social
Bromeliad in study. Photo credit: Xaali O'Reilly-Berkeley. Diagramatic representation of bromeliad. Credit: Xaali O'Reilly-Berkeley. The study's first author climbing into the tree canopy. Credit: Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte.
October 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
sim-elliott.bsky.social
If walk through scarp-face South Down ancient woodland you can't help but notice Ash dieback. This is Harting Down, West Sussex. The golden orange is Beech; the dark-green in Yew. The pale grey is dead/dying Ash. Ash has the second highest epiphytic lichen diversity, after Oak, in the UK. A tragedy
October 29, 2025 at 9:38 AM
nimblenewt.bsky.social
Trying to ID some nifty seaweeds in my new seaweed book, and having the same problem I have when I try to look up a word in a dictionary: I start reading, lose track of time, forget what I was looking up to start with, and then annoy people with weird trivia for the rest of the day.
A photo of the cover of Pacific Seaweeds by Louis Druehl and Bridgette Clarkston, featuring a lovely roiled pile of beached bull kelp in front of some grey rocks that are strangely free of both barnacles and winkles, unlike all the wave-bashed rocks around here that are thick with them (also limpets). It's a great book, it is teaching me about my very first epiphytic seaweed find!!!
October 28, 2025 at 1:56 AM
davidsasaki.bsky.social
It measures about 8 centimeters, is epiphytic (that is, it grows on other plants) and has flowers in shades of yellow and pale green: it is Telipogon villonacoensis, a species recently described by scientists. The first specimen of the orchid was discovered in Loja in 2023.
October 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
lashunta.bsky.social
Castrovel Inspirational Pic of the Week
Jung Yeoli

This pic is a valuable reference. Though I've talked about #Castrovel's giant megadendra that dwarf redwoods and sequoias, visualization is something else...

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#pathfinder #pathfinder2e #starfinder #lashunta #rpg #ttrpg #worldbuilding
Art by Jung Yeoli - a humanlike figure stands looking at a giant tree toppled askew. Secondary roots grow from the trunks, indicating it is still alive. Moss and epiphytic greenery decorate its trunk. Another similarly toppled trees shows further off.
October 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
esiode.bsky.social
📃Scientific paper: Distribution and functional perspective analysis of epiphytic and endophytic bacterial communities associated with marine seaweeds, Alexandria shores, Egypt

Ref.: BioMed Central, 2024

➡️ Continued on ES/IODE
October 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
anthonyfsteele.bsky.social
London still life. No ball games, just epiphytes.
The weather-beaten exterior overhang and vertical wall of a housing estate. Brick and concrete. The sign says "London Borough of Camden NO BALL GAMES". Two epiphytic ferns are flourishing in the cracks.
October 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
kerrynw.bsky.social
One-handedly planted out some lettuce seedlings that have been languishing in their punnet since the day before I broke my arm. I think they’ll survive. Also potted up two tomatoes I started from seed & discovered a broken off piece of my rock orchid that I tossed into a shady spot is flowering.
A small clump of epiphytic orchid with one spray of three tiny pink flowers, in a grey plastic tray on a wooden table.
October 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
nicknc.bsky.social
Macleania pentaptera enjoying autumn weather before going back in the greenhouse for winter. A neotropical, epiphytic “blueberry”. 6 of 6.
Bright orange tubular flowers with green tips.
October 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
jxbotany.bsky.social
🔬🌱 RESEARCH 🌱🔬

Continuous cell proliferation and de novo meristem formation drive clone-forming growth and prolonged longevity in epiphytic fern gametophytes - Wu et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪
Fig. 1.Morphology of Phlebodium pseudoaureum. (A) A fertile frond of Phlebodium with attached sori. (B) An individual sporangium. (C–L) Representative images of gametophytes at different days after inoculation onto growth medium: (C) 20, (D) 31, (E) 86, (F–J) 111, (K) 133, and (L) 129. Arrows in (G–K) indicate meristem notches. The dashed circle in (L) highlights a cluster of multiple meristems and prothalli derived from a single gametophyte body. Scale bars are 5 mm in (A, L) and 100 μm in (B–K). The gametophyte shown in (I) developed independent new meristems (arrows); the one on the left is also shown in Supplementary Fig. S2C. The images shown in (C–E) and in (F–K) are representative of at least 40 and 12 independent gametophytes observed during the developmental stages, respectively.
October 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
phytokeys.pensoft.net
Researchers describe and illustrate 𝐺𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑠 𝑗𝑖𝑢𝑧ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑔𝑜𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠, a new epiphytic orchid from Jiuzhaigou World Heritage Site, China.

🔗 doi.org/10.3897/phyt...
October 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
streetmorrisart.bsky.social
I bring Epidendrum conopseum indoors to fill the house with its nocturnal, honey-scented perfume when it's in bloom. This species #orchid is the northernmost-growing epiphytic orchid in the U.S.. I've kept two of the Florida form happy for years, but lost the Mexican one.
Epidendrum conopseum grown and photographed by Robin Street-Morris
October 15, 2025 at 4:53 AM
neobiota.pensoft.net
Epiphytic algae have been found to mitigate the inhibitory effects of two aquatic invasive plants on a native submerged plant community.

🔗 doi.org/10.3897/neob...
October 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
george-1788pow.bsky.social
Epiphytic - many orchid species first evolved to grow on other plants; opening up vast new habitats and ecological niches in tropical forests. They evolved a variety of deceptive strategies, mimicking food, mates or nesting sites to attract pollinators, which further propelled speciation...
October 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
baphijmm.bsky.social
Update on Colombina’s new enclosure:

Last false vine added; real wood vines will be added once all three are confirmed stably mounted, as they will be strung about between the false ones (they’re all shorter). Five of six PLANNED side-mounted “planters” glued in place, with four actually planted.
A 4’x2’x4’ enclosure being built for a veiled chameleon, Colombina. Three sets of false vines string across the enclosure, wrapped around each other and crossing roughly in the middle. At the mounting point of all but one side, pieces of sandblasted grapevine burl are glued to the sides of the tank, to conceal the vine mount points and to house various trailing and/or epiphytic plants.
October 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
funghimicologia.bsky.social
Canopy Height and Epiphytic Bryophytes Shape Fungal Communities in a Temperate Rainforest

#FungalCommunities
#bioticinteractions
#hostspecificity
#microbiome
#nonvascularepiphyte
#plant–microbeinteractions
#verticalgradient

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(PDF) Canopy Height and Epiphytic Bryophytes Shape Fungal Communities in a Temperate Rainforest
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October 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM