Happy birthday to botanist & photography trailblazer Anna Atkins (1799-1871), née Children!
Atkins’ mother died when she was still an infant, but she was close with her naturalist father & received a much more scientific education than was common for women in her time. Her 250 detailed engravings of shells were used to illustrate her father’s translation of Lamarck’s ‘Genera of Shells’; 
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Test your #botany / #tree / #forest knowledge.
Do you recognize the tree? (grows in Europe)
Click the link to find out if you were right! If not: please do reply with the tree species you thought it was!
Herken jij de boom op de foto's? Klik de link om te kijken of je het goed had!
https://www.bomengids.nl/l/sp/174.html
posted by #bomengidsnlbot
UC Davis Botanical Conservatory may be shut down (you can guess why).
The pandemic made it so I never got to go. I need to see if I can get in there (masked) before these fascists shut it down.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UCDavis/comments/1jbctf7/uc_davis_botanical_conservatory_potential_closure/ #Botany #DavisCA #PlantScience
There's two interesting things going on here. First are the flowers of Eriogonum umbellatum (sulphurflower buckwheat). The second are the clear glacial striations on the rock face dating the ice ages of the Pleistocene Epoch.
Four flower photos from a walk around out neighbourhood. Notes in the alt text.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
Hibiscus is such a fun word to say, and such a wonderful flower.
https://noctivagant.net/
https://doomvega.art/
https://ko-fi.com/doomvega
#FreeToRead article from our latest special issue! Xie et al. use #palynological data to uncover insights into #vegetation succession in the central Qinghai-Tibet Plateau during the Late Oligocene and Early Miocene!
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13168
@WileyEcolEvol
#ecology #PlantSci #EcoEvo #botany
Is the Strawberry Tree, Arbutus unedo (Ericaceae), native to Ireland, or was it brought by the first copper miners?
https://britishandirishbotany.org/index.php/bib/article/view/104/140
Superb botany paper tying together placenames, history, archeology, pollen cores, folklore etc to suggest this tree was introduced to Ireland 4,000 years ago by the first copper miners coming over from Iberia
From https://bsky.app/profile/irishrainforest.bsky.social/post/3lkcx6knm2c2r
Dude. Urban Forestry job in Boston accepting applicants, salaried ($62k) and benefits, plant trees and talk about trees and learn about trees and tend trees. Trees!!!
https://treeboston.org/fellow/
Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515) book-of-flower-studies
Illuminations of European plants by an anonymous master.
by Hunter Dukes via @publicdomainrev
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/book-of-flower-studies/?utm_source=newsletter
#Hemerocallis 'Gold Prize' (peck, 1968) #daylily
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
This week’s Gardeners of the Galaxy Mission Report has algae that could survive on Mars, astrobotany in the SAM analog and AI-generated images causing problems for gardeners.
My free weekly newsletter covers topics related to growing plants in space. You can read online or subscribe to have it delivered directly to your inbox.
https://emmadoughty.substack.com/p/gardeners-of-the-galaxy-mission-report-1d3
How plants are responding to a warming world — and why it matters.
From MIT Press Reader: "Changing phenology, while seemingly innocuous, impacts our lives in many clear and tangible ways."
Just another bumble bee queen nourishing herself from the nectar of a blossom. If you look close enough, you can see her trunk going right into that tasty blossom.
It's one of these moments as a plant and bumble bee enthusiast, that gives a very joyful experience. 
#Hyacinthus orientalis 'Aqua', Markglory CV, 2005. I forced this big pot in the fridge this year, and it did bloom pretty well. I should have anticipated the flop and made a cage for them or something. They smell wonderful.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
You know that spring is finding its way into the year when bumble bee queens are floating all around your garden.
