Lias jigsaw puzzles: Plants

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2025-10-14

Completed 14th October 2025

1000 Pieces

As with almost everything we consume, too much of it can lead to premature death - in the long run. However, some plants and parts of plants can drastically shorten life if consumed in excess. The Artist Pixie Cold has given this some thought and compiled a list of poisonous plants growing in Europe. Take care about the blue one ...

Aconitum = blue monkshood * contact alone is enough to cause inflammation and poisoning

Brugmansia = angel's trumpet, is hallucinogenic

Atropa Belladonna = deadly nightshade, 10-12 berries are enough for adults to die

Datura = thorn apple, hallucinogenic

Digitalis = foxglove, heart failure possible within 6 hours

Cicuta Virosa = water hemlock, leads to respiratory paralysis. Incidentally, the most famous person to be executed by drinking a cup of hemlock was Socrates.

Hyoscyamus niger = black henbane, causes respiratory paralysis

Taxus baccata = yew, causes severe damage to the liver, nerves and heart

Colchicum autumnale = autumn crocus

this moth is not toxic

Ravensburger, 2024

2025-10-07

Development process of 2 jigsaw puzzles - Update 12th October and completed (both)

On the 25th of September I started working on this amazing picture with poisonous plants

I had to interrupt the lesson on how poisonous european plants can be

because we started an event with another 2000pc. jigsaw puzzle - on the 1st of October.

It is called "simultanous assembling of a jigsaw puzzle" and is explained easily:

Somebody asks if other members of the german jigsaw puzzle forum own a special motif and we organize a special day to start assembling it. Everybody is invited to jump on with its own jigsaw puzzle. From day to day we post our efforts and successes, until everybody has finished. This is our 69th event and it depicts this beauty by artist demelsa haughton

and here we are

still a long way to go

... finally, with properly assorting the remaining 320 pcs. I hope to complete this wunderful jigsaw puzzle very soon.

Actually I can't wait to show all those amazing and fantastic details!

Finally, this wonderful jigsaw puzzle has been completed yesterday.

now I am busy completing this one (12.10.2025)

2025-08-10

Completed 10th August 2025

1000 Pieces

Muscinae - Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)

A jigsaw puzzle made by Good Loot, a manufacturer whose puzzles I tried for the first time: Good quality, excellent print, it was pure fun assembling this one!

These are the plants depicted

Thamnium alopecurum (Linné) = Thamnobryum alopecurum (Hedw.) Nieuwl. ex Gangulee
Eurhynchium praelongum (Linné) = Eurhynchium pumilum (Wilson) Schimp.
Polytrichum commune (Linné) = Polytrichum commune Hedw.
Sphagnum cymbifolium (Ehrhard) = Sphagnum palustre L.
Splachnum luteum (Linné) = Splachnum luteum Hedw.
Mnium undulatum (Hedwig) = Hypnum ligulatum F.Weber & D.Mohr
Rhodobryum roseum (Schreber) = Rhodobryum roseum (Hedw.) Limpr.
Physcomitrium acuminatum (Schleich.) = Physcomitrium eurystomum Sendtn.
Physcomitrium ericetorum (Notaris) = Physcomitrium ericetorum (De Not.) Bruch & Schimp.
Physcomitrium sphaericum (Schwaeg.) = Physcomitrium sphaericum (C.F. Ludw.) Fürnr.
Sphagnum medium (Limpricht) = Sphagnum magellanicum Brid.
Andreaea Thedenii (Schimper) = Andreaea obovata Thed.
Hypnum castrense (Linné) = Hypnum crista-castrensis Hedw.
Tetraplodon urceolatus (Schimper) = Tetraplodon urceolatus (Hedw.) Bruch & Schimp.
Dissodon Hornschuchii (Greville) = Tayloria hornschuchii (Grev. & Arn.) Broth.
Dissodon Froelichii (Hedwig) = Tayloria froelichiana (Hedw.) Mitt. ex Broth.

2025-08-04

Development process of "Muscinae" by Ernst Haeckel, 1000 pcs. - completed

I started assembling an amazing floral illustration by Good Loot Puzzles

The illustration is painted by Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)

Not easy; I needed some time to find my way across fifty shades of green

at least I found the missing pieces to assemble the border

Just one final assorting of the pending pieces and the gaps were filled

2025-06-08

I visited a botanical garden in Erlangen - and had fun with frogs

Erlangen is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. Together with Nuremberg, Fürth, and Schwabach, Erlangen forms one of the three metropolises in Bavaria. With the surrounding area, these cities form the European Metropolitan Region of Nuremberg, one of 11 metropolitan areas in Germany.

An element of the city that goes back a long way in history, but is still noticeable, is the settlement of Huguenots after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Please feel free and visit my 2nd post about the Huguenots in Franconia.

Today, many aspects of daily life in the city are dominated by the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Siemens technology group.

The University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität) was founded in 1742 by Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, in the city of Bayreuth, but was relocated to Erlangen the next year. Today, it features five faculties; some departments (Economics and Education) are located in Nuremberg. About 39,000 students study at this university, of which about 20,000 are located in Erlangen. The students allow Erlangen to be a young and cute city.

So let's enter the garden:

The history of the Erlangen Botanical Garden goes back to 1626 in the broadest sense, when a medical-academic garden was established in Altdorf for the newly founded University of Nuremberg. This ‘Hortus Medicus’ in Altdorf was the seventh such university garden in Germany. After its dissolution, some plants from there were transferred to Erlangen.

Just a few years after the establishment of today's Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen (1743), a botanical garden was created here in 1747 in front of the Nuremberg Gate in the southern part of the old town, which no longer exists today.