A timely reminder from @annashergold.bsky.social to look out for #orchid rosettes while you're hunting for flowers, 'tho they don't count for #NewYearPlantHunt.
Need some help IDing orchids before they bloom? Try this helpful guide by Mike Waller @ukorchids.bsky.social: www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/id...
Lovely to see @mixaeljones.bsky.social's daughter enjoying her 3rd #NewYearPlantHunt & looking very grown-up!
Pic below shows her aged 20 months & now she's graduated from spotter sheet to magnifying glass - what a legend!
Spotter sheets are here for anyone less advanced:
bsbi.org/take-part/ac...
I have a Wolf supermoon stargazing challenge for you tonight (Jan3rd, weather Gods willing). Raise your arm to the moon to find Jupiter which is ~2-fingers below it to the right. The Gemini twins, Castor and Pollux are ~3-fingers to the left.
This is your last #supermoon until Nov - enjoy! 🔭🧪
A reminder that 90% of Ireland's so-called 'forests' are industrial plantations, virtually empty of nature.
It doesn't have to be like this: with a bit of thought, we could satisfy our timber needs AND have huge tracts of natural forest ecosystems, bursting with life.
Candlesnuff fungus, rising up like a ghostly apparition from the rainforest floor and waving its limbs.
A saprotrophic species, it helps break down deadwood. It's also bioluminescent, emitting a faint green light by night.
Section of a leather boot with various types of lichen on its surface.
One of the more unusual items in our herbarium collection! This old leather boot is home to several types of lichen 🥾
It was collected on a beach in 1975 by Brian J Coppins in Ballantrae, Scotland.
Read more on the weird and wonderful specimen here: stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/40742
🥳👏👏👏 great news!
Marking 125 years of #EJBotany #OpenAccess and its forerunner, Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, we are delighted to announce that ALL content is now freely available at journals.rbge.org.uk/notes and journals.rbge.org.uk/ejb
An amazing traineeship opportunity, if #lichens are your thing, a joint opportunity between RBGE (@thebotanics.bsky.social) & the National Trust for Scotland: www.asva.co.uk/jobs/trainee...
🌲🌲🌲 An exciting opportunity to work on #conifer #conservation research at RBGE @thebotanics.bsky.social: www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/job... #conservationjobs #botany #redlist #ICCP🌲🌲🌲
The Australian branch of BHL regularly adds in-copyright content to BHL that is not available anywhere else online (alongside their digitisation of #RareBooks, #HistoricJournals & #Archives). Follow along here: @bhl-au.bsky.social. 🇦🇺 🦘 🐨 🌏 📖 🧪
a page of many small drawings of fungi on dead leaves and twigs. they are all very tall and skinny with small caps, mostly white or light brown (with a couple red), and in groups. the background is tan with a white mycelium pattern. signed layaroseart.com
I'm really obsessed with dead leaves and tiny spindly fungi at the moment
#art
Lucky sighting of Mediterranean
common Stingray - Dasyatis pastinaca.
Off La Pitrizza beach Commune di Arzachena Sardinia. Taken with a leaking and temperamental Go Pro 5 that still
somehow works.
A new paper by I.M. Turner published today in #EJBotany #OpenAccess @thebotanics.bsky.social includes 85 new typifications and nomenclatural clarifications from #G.E.Rumphius’s #HerbariumAmboinense posthumously published between 1741-1750: rbge.cc/47jg8Gh
🫣 #clade not class
An exciting #postdoc opportunity working on a class in the #Solanaceae family based in Boulder, Colorado 🍅 🥔 🫑 jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
#sciencejob #botany #research #hortresearch #herbarium #collections
Curator job in vertebrates at the National Museums of Scotland: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553
Closing date soon, so get your skates on! #curator #curation #museum #vertebrate #curatorjobs #museumjobs
Please share our Call for Support with your colleagues, institutions & funders. With your help, we’ll ensure this incredible resource continues to thrive and grow for generations to come. 🌱 🌏 📖https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-support/
A red flower on a green stem withe the words: BHL Call for support now open overlayed.
📢 The #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary is entering a bold new chapter – and we need your help! Today we release our official Call for Support. We’re seeking new hosts for BHL’s staff, infrastructure, and services. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL
If you're interested in working in #ScotlandsRainforest, or know a young person who is, how about this as an excellent way to get started: Bryophyte Trainee with
@thebotanics.bsky.social. Our rainforest woodlands contain hundreds of species of mosses and liverworts!
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A tray containing dried fungal specimens with sponge-like textures, stored in Kew’s Fungarium collection.
MAJOR MILESTONE for fungal science! 🍄💻
Our entire Fungarium - 1.1 million dried fungi specimens - is now fully imaged!👇1/4
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Wide shot of the Pyrus korshinskyi in full bloom, with clusters of white blossoms.
Close up of the white blossom flowers.
Meet one of our Champion Trees, the Kazakh pear (Pyrus korshinskyi) 💪
At 8 metres tall with a trunk girth of 1.26 metres wide, this magnificent specimen is the largest of its species in cultivation in Britain.
Great work 👏👏👏 & very well deserved 🙌
Oooh, these are stunning!
Noooooooo!!!! I hadn’t heard this, thanks for sharing.
If you use the Biodivisity Heritage Library (I use it almost daily), you'll be saddened (and maybe angered😡) to learn that DOGE+Musk+Trump have eliminated its funding. BHL is looking for a new home. #ILoveBHL
So much f***ing winning.🤬
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-...
Rebecca Beneroff Bucknell BS '25 and MS '27 presenting a poster at SICB 2025.
Big congrats to Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social on scoring her first research grant! She will use funding from the Botanical Society of Western PA's Allison Cusick Student Research Award to begin her MS research this summer.
#iamabotanist #letsgoplants
Merian illustration of a cocoa plant with insects
Koehler illustration of cocoa fruits and seeds
Van Nooten illustration of cocoa plant leaves and fruits
Take another view of Easter chocolate with botanical prints of Theobroma cacao - the cocoa plant.
1. Maria Sibylla Merian, Insectorum Surinamensium, 1719
2. Hermann Adolph Koehler, Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887-97
3. Berthe Hoola Van Nooten, Fleurs, Fruits et Feuillages Choisis de l'Ile de Java, 1863-4
Free access to the fascinating Linnaean Society archives, online:“a repository of digitised specimens, manuscripts, correspondence, and artwork”… linnean.access.preservica.com
Join our Horticulture team! We're recruiting for three exciting roles at our world-leading Botanic Garden:
- Senior Horticulturist
- Horticulturist (Alpine, Rock & Woodland)
- Horticulturist (Outdoor)
🌱 Interested? Find all our current vacancies and apply 👉 rbge.cc/-jobs
#HortJobs #EdinburghJobs
