I’m taking the easy way out this week, as I’ve got to get my annual review done by next Monday (and I haven’t even started it yet. Hah!). But over the weekend, let’s see if you can figure out (1) what this is, and (2) why it looks the way it does:
Monday’s photo will reveal all!
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Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott has a Ph.D. in Horticulture from Oregon State University and is an ISA certified arborist and an ASCA consulting arborist. She is WSU’s Extension Urban Horticulturist and a Professor in the Department of Horticulture, and holds two affiliate associate professor positions at University of Washington. She conducts research in applied plant and soil sciences, publishing the results in scientific articles and university Extension fact sheets.
Linda also is the award-winning author of five books: the horticultural myth-busting The Informed Gardener (2008) and The Informed Gardener Blooms Again (2010) from the University of Washington Press and Sustainable Landscapes and Gardens: Good Science – Practical Application (2009) from GFG Publishing, Inc., and How Plants Work: The Science Behind the Amazing Things Plants Do from Timber Press (2015). Her latest effort is an update of Art Kruckeberg’s Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest from UW Press (2019).
In 2018 Linda was featured in a video series – The Science of Gardening – produced by The Great Courses. She also is one of the Garden Professors – a group of academic colleagues who educate and entertain through their blog and Facebook pages. Linda’s contribution to gardeners was recognized in 2017 by the Association for Garden Communicators as the first recipient of their Cynthia Westcott Scientific Writing Award.
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Hmm. An over-irradiated canteloupe skin? The surface of the moon, closeup (so now we know it really is made of Swissish cheese)? Some hip new color-of-the-year bedsheets for hot climates? Can’t wait to hear the real answer….
A yellow leaf that has fed many chewing insects? From what plant or what insects – unknown.
It is either a smoker or drinker. Looks like a chartreuse leaf philodendron that someone fertilized with lighter fluid. Hmmmm…
I think it looks like a lemon peel that has been soaking in a martini. Can’t wait ’til monday to find out !
It’s a Darlingtonia californica (California pitcher plant, cobra plant). The translucent “windows” are part of the system of traps this insectivore uses on its prey – once inside the “hood” the insects tire themselves out trying to escape through these windows…
Yep, Brian is right! thanks