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He didn’t really like the Aloe plant.. he was probably a bit jealous the plant was getting more attention.

Also on the topic of plants, here are some deer bones that I put into my Aloe plant pot to help hold up some of the arms(?) as it has been growing! It looks really neat and is super helpful. (Also ft. the funky flamingo my parents got me a while back lol)

(I need to repot it as it’s gotten pretty big, but haven’t had the time/money to 🥲)

ALOIN CELLS:

  Botanist Anatoly I. Mikhaltsov of the Children’s Ecological and Biological Center in Omsk, Russia, was studying the anatomy of Aloe erinacea, an endangered species of aloe endemic to Namibia, when he captured this image of the plant’s aloin cells (blue)—which secrete a component of the gel-like sap that oozes from an aloe’s severed leaf—using a coloring method that he developed. The cluster of aloin cells is 300 microns wide.  [Less] [Link to this slide] 

Anatoly I. Mikhaltsov/Children’s Ecological and Biological Center

Aloe vera