The frame is filled with closely-spaced conifer trunks, with clear blue sky visible behind them.
The University of Winnipeg Dept of Biology is hiring!
Assistant Professor in Plant Evolutionary Ecology
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A daffodil, backlit, with the floral tube dissected to show the pistil. The style runs upwards through the flower, and the ovules are visible in the inferior ovary, sitting below the attachment point of the petals.
Spring is just around the corner, and so is the Canadian Botanical Association Conference! Four days of field trips, symposia, scientific presentations and posters.
June 2-5, Carleton University, Ottawa. Register by April 15 for the early-bird discount
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An old field at sunrise, looking through a patch of wild carrot stems. The flowers are long past, the branches of the umbel have folded up around the ripe seeds. The winter wind will rock the stems, shaking the seeds loose over the course of the winter.
A man with two hiking poles crosses a snowy field under towering spruce trees. The air is full of fluffy white snow flakes.
Two heavily-dressed women standing on a trail of loosely-packed snow between a stand of spruce trees. The branches are heavy with snow, which is deep on the ground, with large flakes floating downward through the trees.
