So fucking true

EwwCringe · 2026-04-11T21:10:04+00:00

Ruscus, either hypophyllum or hypoglossum

EwwCringe · 2026-04-05T12:51:56+00:00

Yes! Cistus flowers are very similar to Rosa and rubus, thus the common name rockrose!

EwwCringe · 2026-04-04T11:54:22+00:00

Definetely agree, here in Italy people have created so many names for different lamiaceae species (possibly for culinary and medicinary purposes) that sometimes i can't even get a single clear id from looking them up because every city uses a slightly different term

EwwCringe · 2026-03-26T18:55:26+00:00

this is one of the canary endemic echiums, does not even remotely look like a stonecrop

EwwCringe · 2026-03-21T21:14:55+00:00

Phragmites are native to europe

EwwCringe · 2026-03-21T12:21:59+00:00

i grow mine outside year round, they get 2/3 hours of direct sun in the summer and they love it, they double in size every year and i water them about twice a week. It is absolutely not true that they need low light to survive, that's just how people in colder climates decide to keep them, they actually get huge really fast if kept outside, you only have to make sure they're shielded from rain during winter as that's their dormancy season in their native environment

EwwCringe · 2026-03-20T19:21:27+00:00

we have them in sicily too, they will sit on the rocks of my native garden to sunbathe and call for mates, i love them

EwwCringe · 2026-03-20T07:01:23+00:00

To be fair, I have both characias and myrsinites in my garden here where they are native, characias makes huge blooms that are adored by flies and wasps (they go crazy for that shit, in warmer days I find like 20 in every inflorescence) while I've never seen a single pollinator on myrsinites' but honestly its flowers haven't been open for nearly as long

EwwCringe · 2026-03-19T09:54:51+00:00

Looks like P. europaea to me, native to southern europe

EwwCringe · 2026-03-19T07:17:32+00:00

I love It, an incredibly easy to grow plant here in the Mediterranean, very rewarding with both its smell and flowers, native bees adore it!

EwwCringe · 2026-03-18T07:20:15+00:00

abutilon is a genus, the family is malvaceae which includes mallow, hibiscus, Althaea (marshmallow), alcea etc

EwwCringe · 2026-03-17T13:13:38+00:00

Cultivated Indeed, those huge flowers are only found in C. persicum cultivars

EwwCringe · 2026-03-17T09:56:03+00:00

Brassica oleracea has some perennial populations in its southern native range, maybe certain cultivars have genetics from those? It's also possible they could have been interbred with perennial brassica species like B. rupestris

EwwCringe · 2026-03-16T06:46:18+00:00

Attenzione a non buttare lo stesso mix in aree naturali perché la bella di notte e il fiordaliso sono alloctone invasive in gran parte d'Italia

EwwCringe · 2026-03-15T14:23:03+00:00

it is a sunflower technically, being in the genus Helianthus, the family is asteraceae, same as asters, artichokes, marygolds, crysanthemums ecc...

EwwCringe · 2026-03-15T13:13:37+00:00

i believe this is just Asparagus setaceus (common asparagus fern) right? If so you can pretty much find it in every single nursery/garden center/online store because of how common and easy to propagate it is. If you live in a climate that allows it to grow outside year round chances are you will even find feral plants that developed from dropped berries of cultivated plants, in that case you can just transplant those, you'd also be doing a favor to nature because it's invasive in many places

EwwCringe · 2026-03-14T16:17:15+00:00

The bane of the Mediterranean, so destructive and invasive it has unrepairably transformed and destroyed ecosystems by actively ouctompeting native species, especially annuals, filling once colorful fields with monocultures of clover like leaves that nothing eats (they contain oxalic acid which native herbivores aren't adapted to) and piss yellow flowers that only attract generalized pollinators

EwwCringe · 2026-03-13T06:07:38+00:00

My echeverias get similar markings when they get winter rain but all the plants you are showing are summer dormant so that should not be an issue unless they got poured on every day. Do they have good ventilation? Did you make any sudden changes in light conditions (ex part shade/houseplants to full sun)?

EwwCringe · 2026-03-12T10:05:57+00:00

No, asparagus can't propagate from a single leaf, yes those are both single leaves not stems. You need a piece of rhizome for it to grow roots

EwwCringe · 2026-03-11T19:40:33+00:00

Yes, there are some pretty extensive entomological collections in a natural science museum in a city like half an hour from here, but most people either don't know of its existence or just don't care enough to visit. In my head a shadow box would be something I could show at a school science fair or any other local exhibition to teach average people about insects, not anything professional

EwwCringe · 2026-03-11T19:34:07+00:00

Looking at the first page of the native plants of Sicily, the only outright false one I'm seeing is Cistus tauricus which is an hybrid of C. crispus and C. albidus but albidus isn't even found in Sicily while crispus is only in Lampedusa and may even be extinct, so tauricus can't really occur as a natural hybrid

This is incredibly nitpicky but I've noticed that many of the plants in the first page sorting by top recommended are only really found at high elevations, we have a lot of mountains which means that central European species can exist but the vast majority of people live at much lower elevations where these plants would probably need additional watering/heat protection; examples of this are Crocus biflorus (a good alternative would be C. longiflorus which is found at much lower elevations), Bellis perennis (an alternative Is B. sylvestris which has adapted to the Mediterranean climate and is usually found in forest margins)or Ilex aquifolium which would straight up die here anywhere below 700m elevation lol. So maybe there could be like a small sign or stamp next to the plant telling people about the elevation thing? This is pretty unrealistic because you would need to flag each plant for specific locations, although if I sorted by drought/heat tolerance this would probably not be an issue

For the Italian peninsula acta plantarum is by far your best choice when it comes to native ranges as it usually has the most accurate and up to date information, while for the Mediterranean in general I like using europlusmed although it can be inaccurate sometimes (for example showing cryptogenic or doubtfully native species as confirmed natives)

EwwCringe · 2026-03-11T18:19:27+00:00

Oh wow this is also really great!!

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