• LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    This is a cutting I grew of my favorite plant, Ceanothus americanus/New Jersey Tea, with my tattoo of its botanical illustrations from a survey done a few centuries ago (and my pasty I-wear-jeans-all-summer legs)

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      1 year ago

      That is so cool! I’ve thought of getting a tattoo of a tomato plant, I love how yours looks.

    • Wahots@pawb.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      That’s awesome! We have a Russian tea plant in our backyard. It likes the climate and promptly became a bush, haha.

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        Fun fact - Ceanothus americanus and Camellia sinensis both produce similar compounds. C. americanus was seen as a way to break the stranglehold that the East India Trading company had over the tea trade and played a role in the continental congress’ decision to declare independence from the British.