Here you go Bill. A savoury salad made entirely of fruit: rice, sweet corn, cucumber, tomatoes, capsicum, green beans. #Iamabotanist.

Very nice! But the #IAmABotanist in me wants to say, those are of course conifer cones, not fruit 😁

My happiest place on earth #WhoNeedsDisney #IAmABotanist #plantsarecooltoo

Yellow sandstone art deco building with tulip trees outside- PhD lab marked with pink markup scribble (those tulip trees are cyanogenic)

Early 1900s stone building with arched entry, brick paved path to a step with makeshift ramp, euc trees on each side and green grass ; 2 storey with white mullion windows (there were silver birches in my day)

Nice to visit my old stamping ground - Botany @ Melbourne Uni. I was there for a lot of my life - left: Natural philosophy Annex where I did my Hons, MSc + PhD after 15 yr gap; right: botany where I did my undergrad #PlantScience #IAmABotanist

Worth a follow on LinkedIn.

#botany #plantscience #iamabotanist #plantpeopleFTW

For #taxonomistappreciationday I offer my efforts at wrapping my head around basal plant systematics.

#iamabotanist

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Yellow fruits

I know, I know, getting excited about Solanum elaeagnifolium in the SW US is something only a total nightshade nerd would do. But. There you have it.

#iamabotanist

Probably Boy Scouts, I know

Omg I found the official @botsocamerica.bsky.social bench in New Mexico. Is there one of these is every state?? Hello, new life list.

#Botany2026 #iamabotanist #plantpeopleFTW

Astragalus blooming against a rocky gray slope.

Astragalus praelongus, one of the few things seen in flower today at Cerrillos Hills State Park, NM.

#phenology #iamabotanist

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A glass terrarium setting on a piece of wood and inside the glass there are two diff selaginella species, one very red one very green

Top view of the terrarium

Perks of teaching intro plant biology, my office now is packed with a variety of plants! Please appreciate my Selaginella terrarium muhahahaha #ib103 #plantjoy #iamabotanist

Let a thousand stinky blossoms bloom: how Australia became the world’s corpse flower destination Australian collections of the endangered and notoriously unpredictable flowers have popped off in recent years, as ‘personas’ like Putricia, Stinkerella and Smellanie prove a hit with nosy spectators

Its a good day when stories about plants appear in my news feed : #IAmABotanist #plants 🌱🌳🪴 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

text says "hold me like marchantia holds water", the pic is a lecture slide show marchantia archegoniophore holding water

text says "my love for you is as abundant as rubisco", with a protein structure of rubisco

text says "my love for you is liek apical meristems.. it keeps on growing", pic shows shoot and root apical meristem

text says "call me a xylem cell, because i would die for you"

Asked my Intro Plant Bio students to make Valentine's day plant meme using what they learned in class so far, and dang, it gives me SO MUCH joy seeing all the submissions.
Some of my favs here: #valentinesday #ib103 #iamabotanist #plantjoy @botsocamerica.bsky.social l @plantteaching.bsky.social

Ya se puede descargar el volumen completo de BSEB con los artículos publicados en 2025 y nuevas secciones. Esperamos que os guste!

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#bryology #IamaBotanist

14 people posing in the herbarium, with mounted specimens in the foreground

Very happy to host almost 40 folks in the Manning Herbarium today through the Bucknell Institute for Lifelong Learning. So many excellent questions and lots of genuine interest in why collections matter. #iamabotanist

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Student & early career nomination support available through March 23.

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So excited to have been accepted to write this piece. Thanks to all who have entertained my ramblings over the years and have encouraged me in my passion for #ecophysiology and #evolution 🙏

#IAmABotanist 🌱

Students from the Herbarium Curation course in Bucknell’s herbarium

Pleasure to host Donald McClelland’s Lycoming College students in the Manning Herbarium this afternoon. Central PA PUI botany powers, unite!

#iamabotanist #plantpeopleFTW

Plant morphology in a nutshell. 🌱

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Don't miss your chance to be on a BSA committee! Deadline to apply is February 1.

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If you’ve been considering stepping up in this way, we’d love to have you. Please don’t disqualify yourself based on seniority, age, whatever. Diversity of thought/experience = strength.

#botany #iamabotanist #plantpeopleFTW #botany2026

Holding book at PDX

Heading home from #SICB2026 and super stoked to disappear into my new preview copy of @dghaskell.bsky.social’s How Flowers Made Our World. Hells yeah they did. #iamabotanist

It’s Ginkgo. And they ain’t even fruits, let alone berries.

This is wrong two times.

(Is what a total nerd plant person would say if he just finally couldn’t help himself.)

#iamabotanist #SICB2026

#Herbarium specimens played an integral role in this description, with key records for the new species (showing the nectaries) held at the Western Australian, Northern Territory, and New South Wales herbaria. #iamabotanist #ozplants

A new dioecious bush tomato, Solanum nectarifolium (Solanaceae), from the northern Tanami Desert, Northern Territory, Australia, with reassessment of S. ossicruentum and a change in the circumscriptio... A new species of functionally dioecious bush tomato from the “Solanum dioicum + S. echinatum group” of Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum is described. Solanum nectarifolium Martine & Brennan, sp. nov...

Out today! Our newly-described bush tomato #Solanum nectarifolium appears to be the first species in the genus with extrafloral nectaries that are visible to the naked eye. And ants seem to love 'em.

#ozplants #iamabotanist #newspecies @phytokeys.pensoft.net

‘Hovering’ that’s the term, not flapping, tho some of that too. #IAmABotanist

#3Dprinting #iamabotanist #scitools
Printed on @prusa3d.com XL 5TH and Mini+, @ldojason.bsky.social Voron 2.4 revD, @bambulabglobal.bsky.social X1C, and @elegoo.bsky.social Centauri Carbon

Shoutout to @3dprinty.xyz whose fidgets inspired the neverdrop tube holder design

Check out the new issue of the Plant Science Bulletin, featuring a special article by BSA Executive Director, Heather Cacanindin, with a behind-the-scenes peek at Botany conferences!

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#botany #plantscience #iamabotanist #Botany2026