Alright, let's see how many Plant Scientists/Botanists we can reach here in the Fediverse.
Reply to this tweet with an introduction of yourself, what first attracted you to plants, and what you work on now. And boost this toot! #Planticipation#Botany#PlantScience
"Duke University has decided to close its herbarium, a collection of 825,000 specimens of plants, fungi and algae that was established more than a century ago. The collection, one of the largest and most diverse in the country, has helped scientists map the diversity of plant life and chronicle the impact of humans on the environment.
The university’s decision has left researchers reeling."
Plants are surrounded by a fine mist of airborne compounds that they use for communication and protection. A team of Japanese researchers has deployed real-time imaging techniques to reveal how plants receive and respond to these aerial alarms. Science Alert has more, including footage showing a plant “talking” to its neighbor. https://flip.it/lAl00b #Science#Plants#Biology#Botany
Can we get a #WhatIsThisPlant hashtag going on Mastodon? It was one of my favorite joys of #Reddit, it hooked me into ecology and botany in very material and direct ways.
A fairy ring of coastal redwoods, trees sprout from the mother tree in the middle with a fern outline. Base of the OG mother 6 ft+ wide. #ThickTrunkTuesday#Redwoods#Botany
Life has had me very busy lately! Finally catching up on all of the gardening and weeding the heat wave kept us from. It's still hot...92 today, but it beats 99!
I'm trying to find out about people & institutions working in the emerging Plant Humanities. I'd like to be able to do an informational interview with someone in this field to see if it's where I'd like to head.
Most of Plant Science Twitter seems to be on Bluesky. What are your favorite Fediverse accounts (institutional and/or personal) for keeping up with academic botanical news? #Botany#AskFedi@plantscience@academicchatter
When not having visions or composing music, Hildegard was working in the infirmary, working in the garden, writing medical textbooks and natural history textbooks, corresponding with all the kings and queens of Europe or inventing her own language and alphabet. She’s credited with introducing natural history to German speaking lands so she’s next in my #womenInSTEM series.
Beautiful pink form of Thelymitra alpina (Highland sun orchid) near Square Rock, Namadgi NP, ACT. Most plants at this location had the more typical blue flowers this year -this was the only pink form I saw on my last visit to the mountains.
A weird one for my first #MarshMadness, a beaver pod tinted pink/red by Azolla mexicana, a water fern native to the western US and Mexico. It's usually green, except when it gets lots of direct sunlight. Taken in early March, 2015, after an extended sunny spell. #Botany#GetOutside
Musky Cap (Caladenia moschata) at 1200m in Namadgi NP, ACT. Montane forms of this widespread species can flower right through to mid/late December in mild seasons - well after flowering has finished in populations at lower altitudes around Canberra.
Does anyone know of a website where you can find centers of origin for a plant species as well as what the original growing conditions there were (geology, soils, sun/shade, humidity, temp)? #Botany@plantscience
Really old #oak tree in #wollatonpark , added my backpack for a sense of scale. Estimate radius of trunk to be +- 3m, the canopy +- 25m in width. Not sure which oak species it is without the leaves. #botany#tree#nottinghamshire#nature
Really old #oak tree in #wollatonpark , added my backpack for a sense of scale. Estimate radius of trunk to be +- 3m, the canopy +- 25m in width. Not sure which oak species it is without the leaves. #botany#tree#nottinghamshire#nature
Really old #oak tree in #wollatonpark , added my backpack for a sense of scale. Estimate radius of trunk to be +- 3m, the canopy +- 25m in width. Not sure which oak species it is without the leaves. #botany#tree#nottinghamshire#nature
Eriochilus cucullatus (Eastern Bunny Orchid - aka 'Parson's Bands') near Mongarlowe, NSW. Very widespread autumn-flowering orchid in eastern Australia - can also sometimes be seen out in late summer at this location.
A waxing gibbous moon framed in the fork of an eroded branch of a Pinus longaeva (Great Basin bristlecone pine) at ~3,048m (10,000ft) in the White Mountains of California. (This is a single frame photo made by a human, #notAI.)