When ancient Japanese musical instruments became a wood identification test

🔍 Behind the paper: 'When ancient Japanese musical instruments became a wood identification test.' 🏺 This study grew from the challenge of identifying wood species in culturally significant objects without compromising their integrity. 🔗 bit.ly/4a7rg8H #woodanatomy

🔥🪵 Charcoal wood anatomy from NE Argentina
We developed a reference collection of carbonized woods from 9 gallery forest species in Pre-Delta National Park (Entre Ríos, Argentina).
#Archaeobotany #Paleobotany #WoodAnatomy #Xylology

In Berlin next week: I am very much looking forward to our joint workshop on Ancient Egyptian Wood with Tina Beck, Alan Crivellaro and Flavio Ruffinato! 🪾During the week we will analyse Egyptian wooden objects in the Egyptian Museum Berlin 🔍 #egyptology #woodanatomy

📢New study in @FrontPlantSci compares image acquisition methods for quantitative #WoodAnatomy! We contributed to evaluating how various imaging techniques (surface scans, micro-sections, micro-CT) capture vessel characteristics in #TreeRings🌳
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Lifespan outperforms climate as a predictor of wood functional traits, but secondary woodiness shows no clear climatic pattern in Heliophila, a diverse clade from the Cape Floristic Region AbstractBackground and Aims. Annuals produce little wood due to their short life cycle, while perennials can accumulate more, though not all do. Consequent

🌍💡Why It Matters? Understanding these evolutionary patterns helps us predict plant responses to climate change and informs conservation of biodiversity hotspots like the Cape Floristic Region. (10/10)

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CMS Meeting - March 2025 Speaker: Seri Robinson - Spalting Fungi - From Ancient Art to Modern Scientific Marvel When: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 7pm Where: In person at the Amazon Community Center Also live stream:...

#Spalting #FungiArt #WoodScience #Mycology #SpaltedWood #FungalPigments #ArtAndScience #Woodturning #MushroomMagic #SustainableArt #AppliedMycology #OregonScience #WoodAnatomy #NatureInspired #FungalColor #ScienceMeetsArt #BioMaterials #EcoInnovation
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For people familiar with wood anatomy: what is the first thing regarding botanical affinities that you think seeing this longitudinal tangential section of a fossil wood.

If you know the species here pictured, please not mention it to avoid guided answers :-)

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