Machias Bay in May
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*Actual colorS*
Decades of jade
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Crassula ovata (native to Southeast Africa, Sketched in UPSTATE NEW YORK)
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According to my sister this is the same jade that was a tiny houseplant in my bedroom a couple of decades or so ago. (Now it’s practically a forest in her living room.)
Cherry trunk
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Prunus Sp. (Rosaceae)
No leaves on the trees yet in downeast Maine, but the trunks are looking good
Haptophyte
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Today’s drawing was made possible by Plankton Net, “an open access repository for plankton-related information” that has about 15,000 images available to draw from (thus mitigating the artist’s need to use dubious substitutes as models for creatures that are too small to see).
This is a coccolithophore, representing the haptophytes, one of the branches of eukaryotes commonly known as algae.
The original SEM image is Coccolithus pelagicus ssp. braarudii by Richard Lampitt and Jeremy Young (© Jeremy Young, The Natural History Museum, London) https://planktonnet.awi.de/ CC BY 2.5