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    "peppermintsolarpunk",
    "withdreamsofhereafter",
    "this one",
    "the rise of AI images was in **2022**",
    "Dwarf Black Olive",
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  "textContent": "peppermintsolarpunk:\n\n> withdreamsofhereafter:\n>\n>> Hexagonal growth in a black olive tree\n>\n> Let’s play: Is it **AI** or **Real**?\n>\n> Red flags: Unbelievable nature you’ve never seen before!, no external source cited, low image quality could be hiding AI artifacts, lacks scientific name for plant, OP is an aesthetic blog (no offense, I see you credit most of the artists you post, OP <3).\n>\n> Green flags: Common name of the tree provided (although the leaves don’t look like any olive tree I’ve ever seen).\n>\n> Reverse image searches and citation trails all seem to lead back to now-deleted Reddit posts. Google Images says it’s this one in r/NatureIsFuckingLit, and TinEye says it’s this one in r/interestingasfuck. Both were posted back in **2020**. This is important because the rise of AI images was in **2022**.\n>\n> People in the comments of places this image is posted throw around botanical terms like “dichotomous branching” [branches split into two at the nodes] and “divaricated” [branches grow far apart from each other], which are cool, but don’t tell me what the tree is.\n>\n> Searching up “Black Olive” on iNaturalist finally got me some answers, and it turns out that **YES. This is a real tree!** This tree is a Dwarf Black Olive (_Terminalia molinetii_ , Formerly _Bucida spinosa_). The above photos are some particularly nicely framed shots of a tree with particularly small leaves, which really highlights the branching structure. I really wish we knew the photographer’s name. Here are some more photos of the same species:\n>\n> _Terminalia molinetii_ by jriveracruz50 on iNaturalist, posted under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.\n>\n> This tree is native to Southern Mexico, Belize, the southern tip of Florida, and Cuba. Dwarf Black Olives are completely unrelated to Olive trees in the _Olea_ genus that I’m more familiar with (the former is in Order _Myrtales_ [Myrtles, Evening Primroses, and Allies], and the latter is in Order _Lamiales_ [Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies]).\n>\n> Stay critical, and –more importantly– curious, y'all! The world is a beautiful place, we don’t need fictional plants passed off as real ones for that to be true.",
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