Hobo Jungle

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...and here was the dessert...

Stupid is as stupid does.......

Yes indeed.

[Tom Dempsey]

I'm pretty sure most folks suspected she was a horse's arse even before she removed all doubt about it.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Clever, Tom. Real clever. That's another good one . I think you're on a roll these days.

[webenda]

Somehow, somewhere, I have a feeling that's over-the-top, especially at the moment of opening wide and chomping down. No? Yes? Maybe?

No. The human sushi images are digitally generated art. The only way you could eat them is to print them out and eat the paper they are printed on.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Very good to learn, Wayne.

[webenda]

Very good to learn, Wayne.

The art shown by Rufus is 2D but it is possible to print real food in 3D.:=> https://3dprinting.com/food/

[Roy]

They had a piece on the PBS Newshour last night about 3D printing rockets. Their system is a hundred times faster than laser sintering the metal "ink", but it requires baking the part after printing, to fuse the deposited metal, and evaporate the binder.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-3d-printing-is-spurring-revolutionary-advances-in-manufacturing-and-design

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

To go with your coffee..........

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Truth in advertising.

[webenda]

I think it is time for a flower.

This is the Aquave vilmoriniana. The plant is viviparous, which means, it reproduces from buds that form plantlets while still attached to the parent plant, or from seeds that germinate within the fruit. That means that this flower stalk will soon give birth to live plantlets.

[webenda]

Aquave vilmoriniana's flower stalk is over 12 feet tall. I used a ladder and tripod to get the camera up to the flowers.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The leaves seem skimpy for supporting such a significant flower's photosynthesis needs. Silly to say, of course, since Nature gets it just right every time it wants to. I wonder why (competition?) it developed such a tall pistil - that is the pistil, right? Stigma? Style?

[webenda]

The leaves seem skimpy for supporting such a significant flower's photosynthesis needs. Silly to say, of course, since Nature gets it just right every time it wants to. I wonder why (competition?) it developed such a tall pistil - that is the pistil, right? Stigma? Style?

The flowers grow on a tall "stalk." The Stigma is the top part of the Pistil which is inside each individual flower. The Stigma and Style in the flowers pictured are 1 1/2 inches long. The Ovary part of the Pistil seems to be buried in the bottom of the flower.

I can only guess the flowers are placed on a stalk high in the air to aid the baby plants (called bulbils) in falling away from their dead mother (producing such a giant flower arrangement kills the parent plant.) Photosynthesis is over once one of these agaves start to bloom. This plant has been storing up sugars and other materials for this effort for 13 years. The one that was next to this one bloomed and died after 10 years. That one was so wasted by producing the flowers and bulbils that it just fell apart.

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[rogruth]

We have a few similar agaves around our area.
The stalk seems to almost shoot up 15 to 20 feet overnight.
And after a time it dies.