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You can actually eat the individuals that have not yet emerged from the ground. They look like eggs and are pretty weird/soft in touch. If you slice them really thin and fry them, they are delicious. In German they are also called "witch eggs" (Disclaimer: I'm living in Germany and it might be different for the stinkhorns elsewhere.)

What? Making a nice graph in excel? But yeah, ggplot2 does have a pretty steep learning curve. Once you learned it a bit it is really nice though. I love ggplot2 ❤️

In German, some people (especially men) use the phrase "I have pee in my eyes" for when they feel emotional or might want to cry. Maybe they are not emotional but instead are truly lobsters after all??

Luckily Elizabeth Holmes isn't in biotech anymore (because she is in prison)!

I had a good laugh at "CyberStuck" and "hunk of junk"

Maybe both? One leg goes this way and the other that way around...

Not sure where you live, but in central Europe (I live in Germany) you definitely have spiders, harvestmen, mites, millipedes, isopods, slugs, beetles, cockroaches (in my case cute little wood cockroaches), moths (their larvae at least) living inside and around your house. Maybe not directly inside your living room dancing on the table. Although there are some cockroaches that do run around everywhere in my home. But have a look around in your cellar, garage, any spaces that aren't frequently heated or where you store food and you'll find them.

Ah thanks!! :)

I agree. Especially because Ornithogalum is definitely not an Asparagus kind of plant. If maybe Ornithogalum had been in the Asparagus genus before but got split, well OK. But calling any plant in this pretty diverse family "asparagus", is wild.

The APG II system of 2003 allowed two options as to the circumscription of the family: either Asparagaceae sensu lato ("in the wider sense") combining seven previously recognized families, or Asparagaceae sensu stricto ("in the strict sense") consisting of very few genera (notably Asparagus, also Hemiphylacus), but nevertheless totalling a few hundred species. The revised APG III system of 2009 allows only the broader sense.

Asparagaceae includes 114 genera with a total of approximately 2,900 known species.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asparagaceae?wprov=sfla1

Any idea what is the species in the upper right corner? It is super cute!!!

I guess in some parts of the world it already is wednesday, isn't it?

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