Vivarium

Evergreen notes are timeless notes, written to develop ideas progressively and cumulatively. They are neither finished texts nor drafts of something else.1

They live in the Lab; this page is only the door: each title leads to the note.

Circumnutation of a young leaf of Cycas pectinata
Cycas pectinata: circumnutation of a young leaf, traced on vertical glass from 28 to 31 May. Charles Darwin, The Power of Movement in Plants (1880), fig. 45.

Three states

Seed — a captured idea, not yet closed. Shoot — in development: it has body, and connections are forming. Tree — a settled note: it has a structure of its own, and others lean on it.

Shoots (22)

Seeds (31)

  1. More on this practice in Vivarium de ideas: cultivar notas perennes