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Incredible (by which I mean great and credible!) thread about a tsunami in a cruise ship fjord. The wave was taller than the Empire State Building and if a ship had been in the fjord it would have been an unmitigated disaster.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8160797... #3699 - Petasites pyrenaicus - Winter Heliotrope Formerly Tussilago fragrans, and Petasites fragrans.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8160749... #3698 - Cyathostemon heterantherus Formerly Astartea heteranthera. At least, I think it’s this one - the available info on species cultivated at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens appears to be a bit out of date

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8159795... #3697 - Cynara cardunculus - Artichoke Thistle AKA cardoon.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8159509... #3696 - Psoralea pinnata - Dally Pine Obviously it’s not a pine, with flowers like that.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8158746... #3695 - Ulmus × hollandica - Dutch Elm @purrdence for scale. Christchurch Botanical Gardens, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Attenborough was the original head of BBC2, and in that capacity commissioned both Monty Python's Flying Circus and Match of the Day. He also introduced snooker to British television, feeling it would take advantage of the then-new colour broadcasts.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8158364... #2694 - Protea eximia - Broad-leaved Sugarbush Previously known as Protea latifolia. Christchurch Botanical Gardens, Aotearoa New Zealand.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8158223... #3693 - Salvia patens - Gentian Sage Christchurch Botanical Gardens, Aotearoa New Zealand.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8157458... #3692 - Prunus sp. - Plums, Cherries, and Allies Not all of the plants at the Botanical Gardens were rarities or merely ornamental - they had a few plants of agricultural value too.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8157077... #3691 - Heuchera sanguinea ‘Black Taffeta’ A cultivar of the species, which is AKA Coral Bells, because of the deep pink flowers.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8156792... #3690 - Quercus coccinea - Scarlet Oak fficial tree of Washington DC, and named after the bright colour of the foliage in Autumn.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8156171... #3689 - Gunnera tinctoria - Chilean Rhubarb A pity it was over on the far side of the pond, because it’s certainly worth a closer look. Even if just to compare it in scale to somebody.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8156123... #3688 - Eucalyptus delegatensis - Alpine Ash AKA gum-topped stringybark, white-top and in Victoria as woollybutt.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8155074... #3687 - Taxodium distichum - Baldcypress AKA swamp cypress; cyprès chauve; cipre, white cypress, tidewater red cypress, gulf cypress, and red cypress.

Today's business news of Info Wars and the Daily Wire and ChatGPT made me think of the hearse-horses from Martin Chuzzlewit. 'They break us, drive us, ride us; ill-treat, abuse, and maim us for their pleasure—But they die; Hurrah, they die!'

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8153787... #3685 - Sequoia sempervirens - Coast Redwood AKA California redwood. Originally described as Taxodium sempervirens, the ‘evergreen Taxodium’ by Scottish botanist David Don in 1824.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8152929... #3684 - Taxus baccata - English Yew A woodland tree that despite the common name grows across much of Eurasia and Northwest Africa. European Yew and Common Yew are more accurate.

Going live imminently! New video explores a BRILLIANT trick Camfield pulled off in Devil’s Planet. ➡️ youtu.be/OPnvw8HOhxc?...

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8152214... #3683 - Wollemia nobilis - Wollemi Pine A unique gymnosperm only discovered in 1994, in temperate rainforest in steep-sided sandstone canyons 150km NW of Sydney by David Noble, Michael Casteleyn, and Tony Zimmerman, who were exploring the area for new canyons.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8150592... #3682 - Ginkgo biloba - Ginkgo Another unusual plant from the Botanical Gardens. The Ginkgo is the last living species in its entire Division, although its relatives have been around since at least the early Permian, 290 million years ago.

I love it when parasites/parasitoids get funky and convoluted with their life cycles - as is the case with the parasitoid wasp genus Orasema which are parasitoid of ants 🐜🧪 hymenoptera.ucr.edu/sites/defaul...

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8148971... #3681 - Amorphophallus titanum - Titan Arum We happened to arrive in Christchurch on the same day the Titan Arum at the Botanical Gardens was in bloom. Given the other common name is Corpse Flower, having it a meter away from the cafe was certainly A Choice.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8148495... #3680 - Turdus philomelos - Song Thrush Christchurch Botanic Gardens, Aotearoa New Zealand

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8148447... #3679 - Cydia succedana - Gorse Pod Moth A small Torticid I spotted in the Botanical Gardens.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8148399... #3678 - Tuberculatus annulatus - Oak Aphid Infesting some roadside Quercus. Originally Aphis annulatus, named as such by German forest biologist Theodor Hartig in 1941.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8148209... #3677 - Nylanderia sp. A tiny ant alate spotted on the reception desk of the hotel as we checked in.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8148018... #3676 - Teloschistes xanthorioides Named for the ‘perfectly split’ thallus, and the resemblance to Xanthoria lichens. It was described in 1960 by James Murray (1923–1961), an organic chemist and lichenologist who worked at the University of Otago.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8147732... #3675 - Physcia adscendens - Hooded Rosette Lichen On a stone wall at the old Canterbury College, later the University of Canterbury. First described by the French lichenologist and cleric Henri Jacques François Olivier in 1882.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8147397... #3674 - Hypotrachyna afrorevoluta Growing on a Scarlet Oak in the Christchurch botanical gardens.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8147207... #3673 - Glaucomaria carpinea - Rim Lichen Originally described as Lichen carpineus in 1753, by Linnaeus, but AKA Lichen angulosus, and shuffled around Lecanora, Scutellaria, Variolaria, and other genera, collecting synonyms as it went -

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8146587... #3672 - Aesculus hippocastanum - Horse-Chestnut AKA buckeye, & conker tree. Unrelated to the sweet chestnut, Castanea sativa, which is in a different family. The binomial is derived from Latin & Greek, and means ‘edible acorn oak’ & 'horse-chestnut’. Not an oak.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8145967... #3671 - Tilia platyphyllos - Bigleaf Linden They do, in fact, have big leaves. Bonus @purrdence at lower right.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8145395... #3670 - Erythranthe guttata - Seep Monkeyflower Formerly Mimulus guttatus, the original binomial given to it in 1813 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8144823... #3669 - Tradescantia fluminensis - Wandering Trad AKA small-leaf spiderwort, river spiderwort, inch plant, speedy Henry, wandering willie, and wandering jew.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8144537... #3668 - Farfugium japonicum - Leopard-Plant Apparently Christchurch is sometimes known as The Garden City, but a lot of the plants in those gardens are introduced from other parts of the world, which to be honest I found a little annoying.

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drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8144441... #3667 - Hypolepis ambigua - Common Pig Fern Growing on the banks of the Avon River / Ōtākaro River, which runs through the middle of Christchurch.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8143297... #3666 - Adiantum raddianum - Delta Maidenhair Fern

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8143250... #3665 - Adiantum hispidulum - Rough Maidenhair Fern Christchurch Airport has a wall planted with 1000s of ferns, overlooking the luggage carousels. Naturally I made a beeline towards it, to see If I could ID the species and if they were ones from the previous trip.

Drhoz’s NZ Trip 2025-2026 : Ōtautahi Christchurch The South Island’s largest city, built on the Canterbury Plain NE of the extinct volcanoes of the Banks Peninsula.

Drhoz and Purrdence’s NZ Trip 2025-2026 : Flying In This trip was to the South Island, but we still had to fly into Auckland first (riding a tailwind so strong we got in before they had any of the stairs available).

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8143058... New Zealand Species List - Fungi (and Lichenised Fungi) and Slime Molds Last part of the list, then onto discussing the 739 species I actually saw on the latest trip - Dec 2025 - Jan 2026.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8143011... New Zealand Species List - Chordates Things with backbones. Or at least a notochord when it was a larva.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8142963... New Zealand Species List - Polychaetes, Crustaceans, Myriapods, Brachiopods, Cnidaria, Echinoderms, and Sponges The Brachiopods were certainly a surprise - and not even fossil ones, either.

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8142915... New Zealand Species List - Molluscs