For me, it’s a few things.
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A way to burn time that doesn’t feel like a digital sugar rush.
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Support, camaraderie, and kindness, primarily from /r/stopdrinking.
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Niche stuff, like ideas for local hiking and backpacking trips, propaganda posters, and kayaking info.
That’s really cool. Forgive me for not knowing proper plant language, but its arms resemble a sundew.
Yup! Drosera is a sundew! It sounds pretentious AF, but a lot of plant nerds stick to Latin names because some plant common names get thrown around to plants that aren’t part of that genus or species, and that causes some problems researching care and needs of the plant. After a while you just stop thinking about it.
If I had a nickel for everything named a cactus that isn’t…
If you want to know more, just ask! I’ll talk about carnivorous stuff all damn day.
Haha! Makes total sense. I appreciate your precision.
My knowledge of plants is mostly limited to stuff in the New Jersey Pine Barrens because I hike and paddle there often and read about it just as much. So when I think of a sundew, I’m thinking of the one I know that lives there.
(The Pines also has a cactus – the prickly pear – but now I’m questioning whether it’s actually a cactus!)
Thanks so much. Next time I come across a cool plant that I can’t identify, I’ll post and tag you.
Absolutely! I need to know more about my own local stuff (I’m in New England. We have trees and poison ivy, so that’s all I usually identify).
The Pine Barrens have a bunch of cool stuff! at least two different Drosera - Intermedia and Rotundifolia. Also Sarracenia (North American Pitcher Plants) and Utricularia (Bladderworts) - one of Charles Darwin’s favorite carnivores - those little dudes live around most of the world except Antarctica. That seems like a super hiking spot, I’ll have to visit there with the wife and go on a carnivore expedition.
Edit - wife is super excited to go, and we’re going to try to get there this year! Thank you so much! This is the kind of stuff I found on reddit, and I’m glad to find it here on Lemmy ;)
