Last but not least, the annual Marguerite Daisy. I thought this would be the least interesting flower but I actually enjoyed it a lot! It was the most fun to gather the images and I really love the images I was able to capture.
My name is Pierette Imbriano, but it would be great if you could call me Pier. I have always been interested in ethnobotany but didn’t have the language to know and articulate it. I was fascinated by natural survival although can’t claim the brave title of survivalist like others in the program. I have worked on farms and obtained a license in aromatherapy where I can practice medicinally. I grew up in a small town in the suburbs, lived briefly in a rural area and for the majority of my life in cities. I’m currently a Brooklynite in New York City but have lived in various places where I learned to love at times being a naturalist, other times a pragmatist and many times just simply adapting. I hope to learn how indigenous cultures live sustainably and interact with botany. I also hope to be able to adapt these lessons on a larger scale that I can transfer to city planning in NYC, accomplishing sustainable climate & culturally friendly universal trends that can be incorporated on individual and greater levels.
I want to reunite with my love of wild plants and ecosystems, while engaging on an intellectual level but mostly appreciating people and living beings w/instinct and common sense on a social, ecological, culturally sensitive/relevant level that will also provide insight into basic economic community insights. While my passion for plants is primarily around the medicinal use, I’m hoping to broaden that view again and love making pragmatic items such as baskets and clothes, toys and jewelry as I had in Minto, AK. I’m looking to understand the socio-economic cultural and ecological connections on many levels from basic necessities to adornments/enhancements, transportation, infrastructure and more. But I’m also looking for other skills. I want to know how to document individual studies and their connection/relativity to each other in a way I can share where appropriate and approved by the culture and especially in a way where I can pick it up and jump right back into the information in 10 years as if no time had passed. I’m especially excited to learn from each person in this course- everyone is so unique. The material is amazing and I have no doubt meeting everyone in person during field study will be awe-inspiring.
Great job on these. Nice photography and descriptions. Just remember that the Asteraceae head of flowers is and inflorescence, a capitulum. Thus the leaves you see on the underside of the head, or in a sunflower, those are the involucral bracts or phyllaries. Those are very characteristic to each genus and species in the sunflower family and are often used in identification keys for the Asteraceae. Sectioning of the ovaries would be interesting to show as well. The fruits in the sunflower family are achenes, so the seed is free from the ovary wall except for the point of attachment.
Great job on these. Nice photography and descriptions. Just remember that the Asteraceae head of flowers is and inflorescence, a capitulum. Thus the leaves you see on the underside of the head, or in a sunflower, those are the involucral bracts or phyllaries. Those are very characteristic to each genus and species in the sunflower family and are often used in identification keys for the Asteraceae. Sectioning of the ovaries would be interesting to show as well. The fruits in the sunflower family are achenes, so the seed is free from the ovary wall except for the point of attachment.