Plant of the Day: Acacia

DESCRIPTION: This group consists of about 1,000 species that are found in tropical and subtropical regions, especially in Australia and Africa. These evergreens should not be confused with the trees and shrubs commonly known as acacia, which belong to the group Robinia. These tender evergreens are totally different and are commonly known as Mimosas and Wattles. The Australian types are called Wattles because their lumber was used by early settlers in the wattle-and-daub method of building homes. The attractive leaves of these plants are usually bipinnate, giving them a feathery appearance. Some, however, are phyllodes; these are expanded, flattened leaf stems that carry out the same functions of true leaves. Wattles mostly bear flowers in the winter or spring. The tiny yellow flowers are produced in small, fluffy, round- or bottlebrush-shaped clusters. A. armata (Kangaroo Thorn) is a large, thorny, dense shrub with small, slender, dark green phyllodes. In the spring, the length of the branches are clothed with tons of yellow flowers. A. baileyana var. Purpurea is a large shrub or small tree with pretty, feathery leaves that are deep purple when young, contrasting beautifully with the older, blue-green leaves. A. pravissima (Ovens Wattle) forms a small tree or large shrub with blue-green, triangular phyllodes. Each phyllode is equipped with a single thorn on its under side. Tons of small clusters of yellow flowers are borne early in the spring. Some of these plants are valued for their timber such as A. homalophylla (Myall Wood), A. melanoxylon (Australian Blackwood), A. decurrens dealbata (Silver Wattle), and A. acuminata (Raspberry Jam Wood). The hard, durable wood from some is used in different countries for building purposes, making furniture, tool handles and much more. Some Acacias are valued for the tannin in their bark or wood. Gum Arabic is a gum that exudes from the stems and branches of A. nilotica; this plant is found wild in the dry areas of tropical Africa and India. This gum is used for dyeing and printing. A perfume is obtained from the flowers of A. Farnesiana. This plant is grown commercially in southern France.

VARIETIES

A. acinacea : GOLD DUST WATTLE. Shade light to filrered

A. adunca : WALLANGARRA WATTLE.

A. amblygona

A. aneura : MULGA; YARRAN.

A. armata ;

A. baileyana & var. Purpurea : COOTAMUNDRA WATTLE.

A. beckleri : BARRIER RANGE WATTLE.

A. binervata : TWO-VEINED HICKORY.

A. binervia : COASTAL MYALL.

A. boormanii : SNOWY RIVER WATTLE.

A. brachybotrya : GREY MULGA.

A. buxifolia : BOX-LEAF WATTLE.

A. calamifolia : WALLOWA.

A. cardiophylla : WYALONG WATTLE.

A. conferta : GOLDEN TOP.

A. cultriformis : KNIFE-LEAF WATTLE.

A. dealbata : SILVER WATTLE.

A. deanei : DEANS WATTLE.

A. decurrens : EARLY BLACK WATTLE, GREEN WATTLE.

A. drummondii : DRUMMONDS WATTLE.

A. elata : CEDAR WATTLE.

A. fimbriata : FRINGED WATTLE.

A. flexifolia : BENT LEAF WATTLE.

A. floribunda : WHITE SALLOW WATTLE.

A. glaucoptera : CALY WATTLE , FLAT WATTLE.

A. gracilifolia :

A. gunnii : PLOUGHSHARE WATTLE.

A. howittii : STICKY WATTLE.

A. hubbardiana.

A. iteaphylla : FLINDERS RANGE WATTLE.

A. lanuginoisa.

A. longifolia : SYDNEY GOLDEN WATTLE, SALLOW WATTLE.

A. melanoxylon : BLACKWOOD WATTLE.

A. mucronata;

A. myrtifolia : MYRTLE WATTLE

A. paradoxa : KANGAROO THORN

A. pendula : WEEPING MYALL; BOREE

A. perangusta : BRISBANE WATTLE

A. podalyriifolia : QUEENSLAND SILVER WATTLE

A. pravissima : OVENS WATTLE

A. prominens : GOLDEN RAIN WATTLE; GOSFORD WATTLE

A. pubescens : DOWNY WATTLE

A. pycnantha : GOLDEN WATTLE

A. retinodes :

A. riceana :

A. saligna : GOLDEN WREATH WATTLE

A. sophorae : COASTAL WATTLE

A. spectabilis : MUDGEE WATTLE

A.suaveolens : SWEET SCENTED WATTLE

A. terminalis : SUNSHINE WATTLE

A. triptera : SPUR-WING WATTLE

A. uncinata : WEEPING WATTLE

A. verniciflua : VARNISH WATTLE

A. vestita : HAIRY WATTLE

Acacia ( /əˈkeɪʃə/ or /əˈkeɪsiə/) is a genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae, first described in Africa by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1773. Many non-Australian species tend to be thorny, whereas the majority of Australian acacias are not. They are pod-bearing, with sap and leaves typically bearing large amounts of tannins and condensed tannins that historically in many species found use as pharmaceuticals and preservatives.

The generic name derives from ακακία (akakia), the name given by early Greek botanist-physician Pedanius Dioscorides (ca. 40-90) to the medicinal tree A. nilotica in his book Materia Medica.[2] This name derives from the Greek word for its characteristic thorns, ακις (akis, thorn).[3] The species name nilotica was given by Linnaeus from this tree's best-known range along the Nile river.

Acacias are also known as thorntrees, whistling thorns or wattles, including the yellow-fever acacia and umbrella acacias.

Until 2005, there were thought to be roughly 1300 species of acacia worldwide, about 960 of them native to Australia, with the remainder spread around the tropical to warm-temperate regions of both hemispheres, including Europe, Africa, southern Asia, and the Americas. However, the genus was then divided into five, with the name Acacia retained for the Australian species (and a few in tropical Asia, Madagascar and Pacific Islands), and most of the species outside Australia divided into Vachellia and Senegalia. The two final genera, Acaciella and Mariosousa, only contain about a dozen species from the Americas each.

Scientific classification 

Kingdom: Plantae  

clade: Angiosperms

clade: Eudicots  

clade: Rosids

Order: Fabales

Family: Fabaceae

Subfamily: Mimosoideae

Tribe: Acacieae

Genus: Acacia

{[http://www.botany.com/acacia.html]}

{[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia]}

Plant of the Day: Thuja

DESCRIPTION: These evergreen trees are found wild in North America, Korea, Japan and China. They are very pretty trees and are hardy in most parts of North America where the soil is suitable and atmospheric conditions are fairly clean. The leaves of this tree, also known as Arborvitae, Northern White Cedar, and Swamp Cedar, are scale-like and overlap each other tightly against the twig. They are yellowish-green, one-eighth to one-fourth of an inch long and ovate with a pointed or blunt tip. The branchlets spread out in fan-shaped sprays. The small cone is about ½-inch long and matures during the first fall but remains on the tree throughout the winter. The bark of the trunks is thin and ashy to light reddish-brown. It is shed in long, narrow, shredded strips. When bruised, the branches of some kinds, notably T. plicata and T. occidentalis, give off a scent that resembles a mixture of Tansy and Turpentine. The wood of these trees is used for construction, cabinet work and cooperage. It is preferred when great durability is required to endure exposure to all kinds of weather. This wood is very resistant to decay. Some Thujas form good hedge plants and screens.

VARIETIES: T. occidentalis (American Arborvitae) & var. w/ golden leaves - aurea, Douglasii aurea, lutea, lutescens, semperaurea, Vervaeneana, Buchananii, compacta, conica, fastigata, filicoides, Riversii, robusta, Rosenthalii & viridis. Dwarf var. - Boothii, dumosa, globosa, Hoveyi, nana, pumila, pygmaea, recurva nana, umbraculifera, filiformis, Ohlendorfii, pendula, Ellwangeriana, ericoides.

T. orientalis (Oriental Arborvitae) & var. aurea, semperaurescens, bonita, elegantissima, Hillieri, minima glauca, Rosedalis, flagelliformis, meldensis & stricta.

T. plicata (Giant Arborvitae) & var. atrovirens, aurea or zebrina, fastigiata, Hillieri, pendula.

T. Standishii (Japanese Arborvitae).

T. koraiensis.

Thuja ( /ˈθuːdʒə/ or /ˈθjuːdʒə/) is a genus of coniferous trees in the Cupressaceae (cypress family). There are five species in the genus, two native to North America and three native to eastern Asia. The genus is monophyletic and sister to Thujopsis.

They are commonly known as arborvitaes (from Latin for tree of life) or thujas; several species are widely known as cedar but because they are not true cedars (Cedrus) it has been recommended to call them redcedars or whitecedars.

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae

Division: Pinophyta

Class: Pinopsida

Order: Pinales

Family: Cupressaceae

Subfamily: Cupressoideae

Genus: Thuja

{[http://www.botany.com/thuja.html]}

{[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuja]}

Plant of the Day: Daubenya

Daubenya is a gorgeous genus from S.Africa. Once regarded as having just one species but was revised in 2002* and now has eight species. All have two spreading leaves and white, yellow or red tubular flowers in a raceme. They are all strange and wonderful plants, beautiful beyond belief.

Most of the species are from winter rainfall areas but many are very restricted. D.aurea is found only high in the Roggerveld, where it grows with Daubenya-eating porcupines and porcupine-eating leopards.

They need fertile soil, good feeding, dry leaves, good drainage and good drainage! Most will accept some winter cold, but will not take freezing. In the wild D. aurea is used to snow. The others grow in drier habitats, with seasonal moisture.

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Plant of the Day: Bellis perennis

Bellis perennis is a common European species of Daisy, often considered the archetypal species of that name. Many related plants also share the name "Daisy", so to distinguish this species from other daisies it is sometimes qualified as Common Daisy, Lawn Daisy or occasionally English daisy. It is native to western, central and northern Europe. The species is widely naturalised in North America, and also in South America.

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae

(unranked): Angiosperms

(unranked): Eudicots

(unranked): Asterids

Order: Asterales

Family: Asteraceae

Genus: Bellis

Species: B. perennis

{[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellis_perennis]}

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I never really understood how easily a seductress could be seduced. 

It is one of my many weaknesses. 

The same thing that got me where I am now. Woodrue went sweet and I melted. I was weak. 

But now I am strong. 

Yet, for some reason, I am too easily won. 

All I have to do is wink, flip my hair and sway my hips. It's not hard. 

I'm a heart breaking killer. It's a skill and a curse.

I know a mans weak points so shouldn't I know my own?

I'm tired of those people who come up to me and say they have feeling for me and lure me in with their charm and good looks before they kill me. It's the same exact thing I do. 

You'd think after having it done to me so many times I would learn, right?

Wrong.
I'm just another girl who's heart is just as easily broken.

The seducer can be just as easily seduced. 

This life is nothing. It's a curse. 

The looks I get. 

The people who hurt me for the sake of hurting me.

The people who I have to hurt for hurting those I care about.

I guess it's not much of a curse when it comes to my children though.

Those beautiful works of art. 

Art that Mother Nature, myself, has created. 

The beauty they provide for me. My world. 

And even the people that hurt them.

This world that abuses them. 

Why do I help these plants you may ask?

Because I love them. 

Because I do what no one else does. I save them and keep them going in life.

Then when I bread enough of those plants... I cross their DNA with those of animals so they can survive in life without my help. 

It's too bad there aren't more people out there like me. 

Lord knows how many plants have been killed that I didn't know about.

How many could have been saved if there were more people like me?

I just don't understand.

How am I the strongest... yet the weakest?

How can I be making a difference for the best but still need to be serving three life sentences in Arkham?

How can I be so deadly... but not use it the the best of my advantage?

This is what makes me hesitate about my very life. 

Yes, I admit I have thought and attempted to end it all. 

But... I'm still here.

And I always will be.

People can break my heart all they want.

Treat me like shit.

But I'll still be here.

For my children.

I have to be.

Or no one else will.

Plant of the Day: Camas'sia

DESCRIPTION: This group consists of hardy, deciduous, spring-flowering bulbs, which arenative to the marshes and wet meadows of western North America. These plants are suitable for growing in meadows, woodlands, borders, among shrubs and beside water gardens. Camassias have several common names such as, Camass, Indigo Squill, Meadow Hyacinth, and Quamash. The name Camass or Quamash was given to the plants by the North American Indians who cooked boiled or roasted the bulbs for food. (However, all Camass bulbs and plants are poisonous unless cooked.) Camass bulbs produce clumps of slender green leaves, about a foot in length, and spikes of flowers in late spring. The flower stalks grow from 12 to 36 inches tall, depending upon the variety, and bear as many as 40, loosely clustered, star-shaped flowers, each about 2 inches wide. Camass bloom over a period of several weeks. C. cusickii (Cusick Camass) is found wild in Oregon. Its 2-foot-tall stalks are densely covered in pale, blue flowers. C. leichtlinii (Great Camass; Leichtlin Quamash) produces dark blue-violet flowers on stalks 2 to 3 feet tall. This species is found wild from British Columbia to northern California. C. quamash is the lowest growing and earliest flowering species having stems only 1 or 2 feet high. Its deep blue-violet flowers grow up to 2 inches across. C. scilloides (Wild Hyacinth) is native to prairies and rich grasslands from Georgia to central Texas. These bulbs vary in color from white to violet, but are usually pale lavender shades. This species is best seen when grown in clumps. The flowers have a delicate, sweet scent.

SPECIES: C. cusickii; C. leichtlinii & var. alba, semiplena, Blue Danube, Caerulea; C. quamash; C. scilloides.

Camassia is a genus of six species native to western North America, from southern British Columbia to northern California, and east to Utah, Wyoming and Montana. Historically, the genus was thought to belong to the lily family (Liliaceae), sometimes narrowed down to the families Scillaceae or Hyacinthaceae, but DNA and biochemical studies have led the APG II-group to reassign Camassia to the family Agavaceae. Common names include Camas, Quamash, Indian hyacinth, and Wild hyacinth.

Camassia species were an important food staple for Native Americans and settlers in parts of the American Old West. Many areas in the Northwest are named for the plant, including the city of Camas, Washington, Lacamas Creek in southern Washington, the Camas Prairie in northern Idaho (and its Camas Prairie Railroad), and Camas County in southern Idaho.

Camas grow in the wild in great numbers in moist meadows; they are perennial plants with basal linear leaves measuring 8 to 32 inches (20–80 cm) in length, which emerge early in the spring. They grow to a height of 12 to 50 inches (30–130 cm), with a multi-flowered stem rising above the main plant in summer. The six-petaled flowers vary in color from pale lilac or white to deep purple or blue-violet. They sometimes color whole meadows.

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae

(unranked): Angiosperms

(unranked): Monocots

Order: Asparagales

Family: Agavaceae

Genus: Camassia

Links: Botany.com/Camas'sia 

Wikipedia.com/Camas'sia 

 

OOC: What is this Blog?

So, most of you nerds out there are probably wondering who I am and what is going on with the super villianess attitude. Here's all you need to know...

Q&A 

Rules/Actual Questions/OOC

Q: What is this blog for?

A: I am playing the character Pamela Lillian Isley, or as most know here: Poison Ivy. She is a character out of the DC world and I am playing her because she is not only the very thing that got me into my Batman obsession but also a great inspiration to me. No, I do not go around killing people in the name of plants. Sheesh. Pam has always been a favorite of mine and I think it would be kind of nice to have a blog for her since I already Role-Play her on Facebook. (Link at the bottom)

Q: Who is Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy?

A: Pamelas wikipedia definition is used in the "About Me" section because I hardly have the time or space to write about her. There is too much to no and little time. All the you really NEED to know is she was once a regular woman who was seduced and experimented on by her college professor Dr. Woodrue. These experiments changed her into a half plant, half human being who now fights for all plant kind in the name of Botany. (More links at bottom)

Q: Who are YOU?

A: Oh you don't know? Let's keep it that way. 

I WILL NOT be sharing any of my OOC (Out Of Character for you clueless people out there) information unless I find it necessary. This blog is for fun and I always find that knowing the person behind the mask ruins the illusion of the mask. Get to know me. Chat with me. Maybe we'll talk. But the person behind Pamela is not a need to know. Sorry!

Q: Are there any other DC characters or non-DC character RP Bloggers out there?

A: Most likely. I have yet to meet them but it wouldn't be hard to believe. I know quite a few Poison Ivy RPers on Facebook and there's quite a few. I'm sure I'm not the first to say, "HEY! Let's BLOG as Pamela!" If I find out any more I'm sure I'll link you all. That is, if I like them.

Q:CYBUR!? WIll yoU Cybre with meh!?

A: NO. 

I have had this problem far too much with my Facebook account. Poison Ivy may be a seductress but that feature is there for the plants alone. Sure she may flirt now and then but when it comes to the actual seduction, she will kill you. Just because she acts like a whore does not mean she is one so, if you please, do not act me to suck your dick through the computer. 1) It's impossible. 2) It's disgusting and rude. 3) If there's any sex going on, it's in character and it must be fitting the story line. 

Q: so whts up?? i is tlkin lyke dis cuz i haz no ritting skillz!! 

A: ... Please. If you are talking to me, use correct spelling and grammar. I get that typin lyk dis makes things go faster but at the same time... I like talking to a person like they are a normal person. Talking to me like your fingers are seizing will not earn you points on my part. 

Q: Will you Role Play with me?

A: Of course. I am not a very talented writer but when it comes to those who send paragraphs and paragraphs of a starter, I do my best to keep up. I have very little experience with multi-para and novella RPs so if you are someone who is into that and you want to RP, expect some details about pointless things. Once and a while I run out of things to talk about. But I'm tired of writing about the fuckin' sky. 

Anyway. Point is. Yes. I will Role Play with you.

Q: *is walking quietly through the forest*

A: You cannot expect me to reply to random starters. Especially ones like this. It is true, sometimes I like to use stars (**) for explaining my actions but that is only when I feel lazy or I don't respect you enough to write normal. I will use "these to talk and this. To end my sentences. 

Also, random starters are nice and all. But you have to give me something more and if I have no idea who your character is and I can't find them on Google then you need to explain your character a bit. 

Q: What do you like in your Role-Plays?

A: I don't mind what happens as long as I am not god-modded and the starter isn't this:

"I am walking down the streets of Gotham, my foot steps making little sound. There is no wind and no one around. A psychotic smile grows across my face as I see and lovely green woman at the end of a dark alley, her hair a fiery red and her body, one of a goddess. I-"

NO! FUCK YOU! I'm tired of my hair being described by some psychotic freak who likes dark alleys! It's always the same! 

Yes. My character is from Gotham. (technically Seattle... read it up people.) But that does not mean that everyone who lives there is just down-right psycho. Come and visit me at my greenhouse if you know where that is. Or be on a vacation in the Amazon or something. But please. Dear god please for the love of everything good and holy. DO NOT describe your creepy fucking character, checking out the hair and curves of mine in a dark alley of Gotham. It's WAY too popular.

Q: Can my character go out with yours in story?

A: Yes. I am willing to date other characters but it cannot be for one quickie RP. (*Giggle-snort*) Each and every one of my RPs are going to be a part of my character. If you date her, you are dating her. She will talk about you with others if the topic comes up and if she cares about you, it will effect her mood in other RPs. So don;t get pissy with me if your character is cared about by her and she tells others that she is worried about you because you have been acting weird or some stuff like that. It all matters. And fellas (maybe ladies) you can't start dating my character and disappear of the face of the planet for days and weeks. I will end it.

Q: Can I chat with you OOC?

A: Of course. I love getting to know people. But remember, I do not reveal any information about myself. This RP thing is a game. Nothing more. 

Q: Wow. You're a bitch.

A: I will act the way Ivy acts IC and I will act the way I act OOC. It is who Pam and I are. Sure, I might put some of myself into the character but that is it. She may be a bitch to your character but that is the way I play her. And hun, you piss me off, you will know what the personification of a bitch is. Just sayin'. 

I guess that is all that needs to be shared for now. I might add a little more now and then but this is all I can think of off the top of my head. If you want, feel free to ask questions but be warned, I will post these questions up if I feel it necessary. 

Ta ta for now ladies. <3

Links: Batman Wiki: Poison Ivy (Pamela Lillian Isley)

Wikipedia: Poison Ivy (comics)

Facebook: Pamela Lillian Isley