@hagaesthetic. You are doing great. You can speed up the Mastodon experience by using lots of hashtags. Hashtags are free. You can edit your introduction post to add hashtags such as #orchid, #orchids.
It's a good thing that I decided to photograph this pretty Phalaenopsis Orchid this morning. Otherwise I might not have noticed the little bug (woolly aphid?) & I wouldn't have checked my other orchids in the back bedroom & found 4 more had them.
I don't know where they came from. I haven't bought any new plants recently.
Orchid's nutrient theft from #fungi sheds light on photosynthesis-parasitism continuum https://phys.org/news/2025-02-orchid-nutrient-theft-fungi-photosynthesis.html paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tpj.70045
"When the #orchid Oreorchis patens happens to grow close to rotten wood, it shifts its fungal #symbionts to those that decompose the wood and significantly increases the amount of nutrients it takes from them—without ceasing to employ photosynthesis. As a result, the #plants are bigger and produce more #flowers."
Venn diagram of orchid petals
#bloomscrolling #orchid