Botanical Wednesday: Pumpkin spiral

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   F

   24 October 2012 at 9:56 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I loves me some vines.

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   paulburnett

   24 October 2012 at 10:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   They actually use those tentacles to climb trees, which can cause large pumpkins to develop way off the ground – enchanting but dangerous.

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   A. R

   25 October 2012 at 12:00 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Is this a BW without showy genitals? I am amazed.

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   mildlymagnificent

   25 October 2012 at 12:33 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   That’s why sensible people give them a ladder or a sloping lattice to climb onto the roof of the garden shed. Not suitable for conventional watermelons or the biiiiig pumpkins – but fantastic for butternuts and similar sized sweet melons.

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   chigau (棒や石)

   25 October 2012 at 1:03 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I have hops between me and my driveway.
   They are out to get me.
   (I know it’s not the same thing but they are all spikey-tendrilly, too.)

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   ilex

   25 October 2012 at 1:04 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Very pretty! I’m with A.R, shocked by the modesty.

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   ChasCPeterson

   25 October 2012 at 6:59 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   nice trichomes on that tendril

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   ChasCPeterson

   25 October 2012 at 7:03 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   now if I’d looked it up first, I would have also used the terms ‘hispid’ and (heh) ‘pubescent’:

   nice, hispid trichomes on that pubescent tendril

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   ChasCPeterson

   25 October 2012 at 7:06 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   fuck, the tendril is hispid. The trichomes are (possibly) ‘hispidous’.
   I’ll shut up.

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    leftwingfox

    25 October 2012 at 10:38 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    enchanting but dangerous.

    Bippity Bobbidy BANG!

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    Trebuchet

    25 October 2012 at 11:25 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Sorry, but there’s something about tendrils that always creeps me out a little. It’s the way they grab on to things, I guess. Sort of breeching the line between plant and animal. Perhaps that’s the deep psychological meaning to what I do with pumpkins!

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    Olav

    25 October 2012 at 6:15 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Triffids!

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    Sili

    26 October 2012 at 9:54 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Nice. Anyone know if that’s a logarithmic spiral?

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    Rich Woods

    26 October 2012 at 6:29 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    @chigau (棒や石) #5:

    > I have hops between me and my driveway.

    *jealous*