My third sunset photo. This time, my now huge Euphorbia seedlings. Most of them are now touching, but I think I need another type of planter to prevent this from happening. Maybe I’ll just let them grow this way and see what happens.
I feel like there has to be some kind of botany joke in the similarity between the words “areoles” and “areolas”
I mean this is literally a cactus that exists so (that’s Montrose Myrtilocactus geometrizans)
Also there’s an entire genus of popular cacti, Mammillaria whose name legit means “nipple”
Also after brief googling, it seems the words are related, areole coming from areola. The areole is actually the little bud that cacti spines sprout from. Botanists have been looking at cacti for centuries and going “ah… a titty”
me, a 1800s botanist: *is first to name a beautiful result of evolution that has been evolving for longer than my brain can feasibly imagine*
me: look like titty..name titty bush
Humans have always been humans, even the smart ones.
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