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- Gardens of Health Series 8: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝟏𝟓𝟒𝟔 from Ch. Egenolph, "Herbarum, Arbarum [...] Simplicium quorum in medicinis usus est Imagines" (Frankfurt, 1546), frontispiece. #CSMBR #MedicalHistory #HortusSimplicium #Simples #Botany #Renaissance
- I don’t see the family very often, but I always enjoy seeing Cistaceae. This week, let's look at the family. They often have dimorphic sepals: 2, small, outer sepals & 3 larger ones. This Fumana ericoides (📷: Sonja Bouwman-Gringhuis CCBYNC4) shows the sepals brilliantly. #Cistaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
- Your daily dose of botanical drawings by Mary Vaux Walcott. Scarlet Mariposa (Calochortus kennedyi), 1926 17.8 × 25.4 cm #woman #artist #plants #walcott #botany
- Named after Semper Augustus, the fabled tulip of tulip-mania, these abstractions began as acrylic and PVA on acetate, brushed into petal-like breaks, taped into cones and photographed. reds-kingdom.blog/2025/05/21/s... #photography #tulips #botany #semperaugustus #horticulture #art
- Garden muse Renaissance man and polymath Da Vinci was deeply interested in botany; many of his better-known works include signs of his careful examination of plants. Top 10 Leonardo Drawings in the Royal Collection: www.rct.uk/collection/s... At PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #botany
- Microsatellite, Hyb-Seq & morphological studies confirm the enigmatic #mustard #Boechera tiehmii as an intergeneric hybrid New #AJB research by Nikolai Hay, Michael Windham Kathleen Pryer doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #Brassicaceae
- #Fire avoidance & long-term population decline in the endangered Florida ground #lichen #Cladonia perforata within a pyrogenic habitat New #AJB research by @sterlingherron.bsky.social, Katherine Charton, Sarah Haller Crate, Stacy Smith, et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience
- 🔥Are you investigating how plants respond to shifting fire regimes? Submit to our new Special Collection🌱 Title: "After the fires: Plant responses and resilience under shifting fire regimes" 📖 Submit by 30 Sept 2025. 🧪 Details 👉 www.publish.csiro.au/bt/content/C... #Fire #Botany #Plantscience
- The fruits of cashew (Anacardium occidentale) are unusual. The familiar nut is borne inside the hard-shelled fruit at the distal end of the fleshy, attractive, edible pedicel. I don’t know what disperses the seeds in nature. Primates? Bats? #Anacardiaceae #tropicalbotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
- I love the interesting leaf arrangements in Aloe. They are typically spirally arranged & none shows it better than A. polyphylla (📷: John Dransfield). Occasionally they’re distichous, as in A. suprafoliata. #Aloe #Asphodelaceae #TropicalBotany #botany 🌾🧪🌱
