persagen, 17 days ago to random

Wild orangutan treats wound with pain-relieving plant
A wild orangutan was observed applying a plant with known medicinal properties to a wound, a first for a wild animal
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/05/240502113715.htm

Active self-treatment of a facial wound with a biologically active plant by a male Sumatran orangutan
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-58988-7

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/orangutan-observed-treating-wound-using-medicinal-plant-in-world-first-1.6870817
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/orangutan-observed-treating-wound-using-medicinal-plant-in-world-first-1.6870817

#primates #MedicinalPlants #injury #orangutan #botany

Wen, 1 month ago to Scotland

#SoutraAisle

https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/lauder/soutraaisle/index.html

Coming across from #Stow, we passed the sight of the old mediaeval #hospital, the Soutra Aisle with a road sign on the road indicating Soutra Isle 🤣) one of the most important institutions in #medieval Scotland.

All that is left is a stone roofed building. Unfortunately the #bams have been at it and some of the information boards have been vandalised and torn away 😳.

#Scotland #History #EastLothian #vandalism

FarmerLotus, 10 months ago to random

From an afternoon picnic at a local lavender farm

#Bloomscrolling #lavender #medicinalHerbs #medicinalPlants #coloradoPhotographer

Image shows a row of blooming dark purple lavender next to another lighter variety. The lavender farm shown in the image grows over 20 varieties of this drought tolerant perennial plant. There is a tree in the background that is blurred and the rest of the landscape recedes into the distance as the edge of the farm slopes off into a valley.
Closeup of a culinary variety of lavender. Each flower spike is stiffly upright. The background is a blurry bokeh of some lighter colored cultivars which offers a nice contrast to the darker blue/purple buds in the foreground.
The rows of lavender alternate between different varieties with the darker, culinary variety in the foreground. The plants are trimmed back each year into gently rounded mounds to achieve this nice shape that also makes harvesting the blooms easier. The blooms are hand harvested at peak oil content with a sickle.