Tezos

Spring Shift

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Description

Ficaria verna Common names: Lesser Celandine, Fig Buttercup, Pilewort Trifolium repens (the leaves in the background) Common name: White Clover The whole survival strategy depends on timing. Celandine emerges while trees are still bare, capturing sunlight that will disappear once the canopy closes overhead in April. A plant that only exists in a window. Touch it wrong and the leaves release protoanemonin, a toxin that blisters skin on contact, which is strange for something that looks this harmless growing among clover. In ancient Greek herbalism it was connected to Hermes, god of transitions and borders and the space between things, which makes sense for a plant that lives exclusively in the border between winter and spring. The whole organism is a clock. Petals track the sun across the sky, opening and shutting on a schedule so precise that Linnaeus included it in his floral clock, the garden he planted in Uppsala where each bed told the time based on which species were open. If celandine is open, it's between nine and five. If it's shut, either it's going to rain or you should go home. The leaves growing underneath belong to white clover, fixing nitrogen into the soil for everything around it, feeding a neighbor it will never see bloom. © Corina Daniela Obertas Photography. All rights reserved. The purchase of this NFT grants the collector ownership of the token only. Full copyright, reproduction rights, and commercial usage rights remain exclusively with the artist. No part of this artwork may be reproduced, distributed, printed, licensed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written consent from the artist.

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trifolium repens