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Science Fact Friday Week 2: Fungi!
Had to do a little pen & ink mushroom for class this week so fungi has been on my mind. Managed to finish it early enough to feature it here! I love stippling.
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Traditional pen (crowquill + micron) drawing, digitized and added text with Photoshop.
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I love these things you do every week! I have a suggestion for you-Moss! :3
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Oho I'm one step ahead on that one! c:
I'm currently finishing up a certificate in botanical illustration and my program requires a final project of our own design. I felt like bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, hornworts) were an underappreciated corner of botany so I submitted a proposal to do them!
It's still in the early stages but mosses will definitely appear at some point.
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Ohh! Wow! I love moss, as far as underappreciated plants go that is. XD
Ohhh! So you study flora and fauna at college or uni then?
So do you know what week 4 will be?
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Moss is so lovely. ;w; I grew up in a very dry place so I used to get so excited to see moss. (Granted, I still do...)
I've already graduated from uni, this is just a little program at a local botanical garden. c:
Not sure what week 4 is yet! I tend to wait until ~Wednesday and then go "what's interesting right now". At some point I want to explain photosynthesis, carbon sequestration, how to 'read' chemical structures, etc. - harder science topics. But I also love these lighter facts.
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We have lots of moss where we live-my garden is full of some really pretty moss!
I even grew some apple trees by mistake! XD Hehe...
Ohh! Nice!
I thought everyone knew about Photosynthesis?Β
Is Carbon sequestration how the photosynthesis happens?Β
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Haha how do you grow apple trees by mistake? "Oops I have an orchard now!"
I think everyone probably knows that photosynthesis is a thing, but I'd like to describe it in a little more depth. 
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Haha, that's basically what happened.
I mean, they're all dead now buuutttttt.....
I threw some seeds in the garden and BOOM!
I WAS TRYING NOT TO LET THEM GROW!
At the time I didn't know HOW to grow Apple seeds... But that happened anyway! XD
Ohh! That explains it!
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@ apples: what are you doing
When I'm a real adult and have a house and a yard, I want to live somewhere where things just...grow like that. ;v
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XD You mean indoors where it's warmer than South Africa because your nan gets cold easily? XD Sure!
Where I live, it's dangerous to put things outside until they're really big because of the shitty weather (which is how THEY died).
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Ahhh gotcha lmao. Since I grew up in a desert I forget that sometimes places with rain and such are also inhospitable lol.
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Haha, whereas I grew in...Basically an ocean but still understood that I would hate to 'live' in the desert.
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Haha. It has its charm in some ways...but I don't intend to move back.
Warm ocean climate or cold ocean climate?
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I suppose it might, it's because of where I live that this year. I finally realised we're never gonna have settled snow again so I prefer the Summer now, never used to.
COLD!
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Haha. Might as well embrace that global warming.
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Haha, I guess, can't wait to flood! XD
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Aw yis island life for everyone.
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Haha... The Uk... Technically an island already, just have to move to Bristol or something.
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I mean, I'm now in Brooklyn/NYC which is also an island. I just want palm trees lmao.
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XD I just want some warm (Like 22-28 C) weather!
I mean geez!
For ONCE I can't wait for Summer!
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Mmmm that sounds so nice. It was 16 here today after being around 0 for weeks.
Also green. I want the trees to be green again. D:
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Yeah!
Yesterday it was quite warm and sunny too!
Yeeesss! The buds on some trees are starting to flower but most aren't.
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Oof, lucky! The trees here probably won't start to bud for another month or two.
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Haha. Here the seasons are about a month early.
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Good tidbit of knowledge there. If it weren't for fungi, life as we know it could not exist.
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True fact! An underappreciated group of organisms.
(Not that I fully appreciate them either, though. I think mushrooms taste disgusting. Certainly cute and useful, though.)
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You might not have had mushrooms when they've been cooked right. The white ones in supermarkets are pretty innocuous, flavor-wise. I like to saute them in butter. Every so often I'll eat 'em right out of the pan that way.
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Nope, I've had proper mushrooms. My mom LOVES them and cooks them pretty regularly. I am not a fan.Β
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Haha thanks, I strive to achieve that.
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You're welcome! Happy to spread the fun facts. c:
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I literally just learned this in science class
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Noice. I love when coincidences like that happen.
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I know right
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Cooool, another one! =-D I like the stippling you did along with the background color, it reminds me of illustrations in old novels and stuff. ^.^
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Thanks! Yeah, I was feeling that style as I worked on it. c:Β
(Bonus: ink stippling is so much easier to clean up digitally than my usual work! I was amazed.)
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