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Rachel Ehrenberg

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Editor/writer @KnowableMag Lapsed botanist. Vermont ex-pat. prev: @ScienceNews, MIT Knight Fellow '14. She/her Profile pic by Maki Naro

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  • 1 week ago | monroecountyherald.com | Rachel Ehrenberg

    In late winter, in the swampy lowlands of the northeastern United States, you might catch a whiff of rotting flesh. The unlikely source is flowers—maroon pointy things, the size of fists, that protrude from the still-frozen ground like grotesque harbingers of spring. These are the flowers of the Eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), and flies and other pollinators are drawn by their putrid odor as well as by the flowers’ warmth.

  • 2 weeks ago | stacker.com | Rachel Ehrenberg

    David Govoni, Stephen John Davies, Tausher, Yao Li, Jero Chávez, Denver Kramer, Yash Bhagwanji, Fotis-Samaritakis, John Serrao, Jackie T, Aulax // iNaturalist.org In late winter, in the swampy lowlands of the northeastern United States, you might catch a whiff of rotting flesh. The unlikely source is flowers—maroon pointy things, the size of fists, that protrude from the still-frozen ground like grotesque harbingers of spring.

  • 2 weeks ago | caledonianrecord.com | Rachel Ehrenberg

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  • 2 weeks ago | conwaydailysun.com | Rachel Ehrenberg

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  • 1 month ago | nacion.com | Rachel Ehrenberg

    A finales del invierno, en las pantanosas tierras bajas del noreste de Estados Unidos, se percibe un olor a carne podrida. La improbable fuente de ese olor son flores —cosas puntiagudas de color granate, del tamaño de un puño, que sobresalen del suelo aún helado—. Son las flores de la col de mofeta (Symplocarpus foetidus). Las moscas y otros polinizadores se sienten atraídos por su olor pútrido, así como por el calor de las flores.

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Rachel Ehrenberg
Rachel Ehrenberg @Rachelwrit
19 Jul 24

Hundreds of racist plant names will change after historic vote by botanists by @ewencallaway https://t.co/y5oOhBgrJX

Rachel Ehrenberg
Rachel Ehrenberg @Rachelwrit
29 May 24

another interesting read from @AmbrookResearch a (maybe) growing market for high-quality (not-for-animal-feed) soybeans: https://t.co/qxXGEWPXyb

Rachel Ehrenberg
Rachel Ehrenberg @Rachelwrit
22 Feb 24

RT @Lagomarsino_L: We have two major herbarium crises ongoing at the moment, both near and dear to my tropical botany heart. It’s really sa…