The surprising appearance of Riccia cavernosa in North American pavement cracks
doi.org/10.1639/0007...

Two-Minute Genera: Adiantum (Pteridaceae) YouTube video by Ferns of Colombia

Introducing Two Minute Genera! This is a bilingual video series celebrating the incredible diversity of plants, starting with the ferns and lycophytes of Colombia. For our debut video, we present Adiantum featuring Kimberlie Sasan from the Botanical Research Institute of Texas youtu.be/9yZWa8fIkiI

So pleased! And thanks to iNat community member Choess for pointing out to me that the family had not yet been posted :)

Give me fractal fronds over Kindleberger’s Spiral any day From the coiling patterns of ferns to the Fibonacci sequence of pine cones, the mathematical order of nature is a soothing antidote to our disordered lives

Jonathan Guthrie of the @financialtimes.com turns his eye to the ferns - with quotes from @sandyheth.bsky.social and I - I’m in love with the illustration by Lesley Buckingham🌿

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Give me fractal fronds over Kindleberger’s Spiral any day

BRIT is looking for a new press director!

A Fungi Pioneer’s Lifelong Work on Exhibit Mushrooms in 19th-century watercolors: The paintings of a self-taught female mycologist are featured at the New York State Museum.

Thrilled to read about this exhibit curated by Mycologist Patricia Kaishian at New York State Museum -- I hope I get to see it in person!
A Fungi Pioneer’s Lifelong Work on Exhibit www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/s...

Two sites in the Magdalena valley - Rio Miel and Rio Claro

The #RBGE MSc field course is underway in Colombia - with staff and students from both Edinburgh and Colombia focusing on taxonomy and specimen preparation - a great introduction to tropical plant systematics

The Origin and Evolution of Botanical Spirals | Sandy Hetherington YouTube video by Linnean Society

Interested in Botanical spirals but couldn’t attend my lecture @linneansociety.bsky.social
Don’t worry you can now watch it on YouTube! 👇👇👇
The talk includes an overview of our recent paper on fern fiddleheads @currentbiology.bsky.social
youtu.be/WLHDnjwcPlc?...

Professor Gibby collecting Pelargonium multibracteatum from the Sumara Pass in Yemen, 4 February 2007. Photograph by Leigh Morris.

An obituary celebrating the life and research of Professor Mary Gibby, Ph.D., OBE, FLS, FRSE, PPBPS (1949-2024) by Professor Stephen Blackmore #RoyalBotanicGarden #Edinburgh and Professor Johannes Vogel #MuseumFürNaturkunde #Berlin published today #OpenAccess in #EJBotany: rbge.cc/4gsoNbc

"Despite harboring around one-third of the world’s fern species, less than 6% of Southeast Asian ferns have been DNA-sequenced" -- here's our response!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...