Plantas da Caatinga

Botânicos no Brasil e no Reino Unido a estudar a Caatinga para as pessoas e planeta | Botanists in Brazil & the UK studying the Caatinga for people and planet.

[Plantas da Caatinga @CaatingaPlantas]

Thanks to the journal @plantspplplanet for publishing this great video, explaining some of the work done by our scientists and collaborators to monitor and preserve tropical dry forests in South America
https://t.co/KsfzxxeqCm

[Plantas da Caatinga @CaatingaPlantas]

Collected near Mossoró today, this is Sideroxylon obtusifolium, a Sapotaceae whose latex dries into a rubbery solid.

[Ser Tão Caatinga @Sercaatinga]

@PeterMoonlight @CaatingaPlantas Que bela imagem. É incrível quando as plantas voltam logo a ficarem verdes apos o começo da época das chuvas. 😍

[Plantas da Caatinga @CaatingaPlantas]

Great to spend some time getting to know the neglected herb flora of the Caatinga yesterday.

[ForestPlots @ForestPlots]

Amazing new plots being established by Domingos Cardoso and Bahianos for #Nordeste ! (lucky the cactus doesn't get to 1.3m) @CaatingaPlantas

[ForestPlots @ForestPlots]

how to grow tall in the Caatinga: forget the leaves! https://t.co/luvoZWYmAN

[Plantas da Caatinga @CaatingaPlantas]

Happy #IntlForestDay from the Caatinga dry forests of Northeast Brazil, packed full of endemic plants and animals.

[Plantas da Caatinga @CaatingaPlantas]

There are two Tillandsia "air plant" species at our Serra Talhada site. This is the smaller and more common of the two.

[Plantas da Caatinga @CaatingaPlantas]

We had a helpful and enthusiastic audience last night while pressing plants. Is this the next generation of Caatinga botanists?

[Plantas da Caatinga @CaatingaPlantas]

@NikitaSude @meriania @PeterMoonlight found it in a rainy site!!!

[Plantas da Caatinga @CaatingaPlantas]

How many Nordeste biologists does it take to pack a pickup?

[ForestPlots @ForestPlots]

How to survive (5 years of ) drought - more amazing plants from northeast Brazil https://t.co/8gG897Mnoa

[Plantas da Caatinga @CaatingaPlantas]

. @shar_clark they do not need much drying from this state!

[ForestPlots @ForestPlots]

this is #Cactus heaven https://t.co/xHkhjpUrlo

[Plantas da Caatinga @CaatingaPlantas]

@NikitaSude @meriania @PeterMoonlight I would love too.. Not much chance of rain here though and we have left the site :(

[Plantas da Caatinga @CaatingaPlantas]

We have been at it all day at Caatinga site two near Petrolina. Very little tree spp. overlap with our first site. https://t.co/B5bn4NJT5n

[ForestPlots @ForestPlots]

Permanent plots = nexus for learning and discovery @BES_Tropical @soctropecol @CaatingaPlantas @PPBio_INPA https://t.co/XPJAt7PKvH

[Plantas da Caatinga @CaatingaPlantas]

@BruceHWolk @MartineBaotany I have done the same before! Maybe more analogous to surviving droughts as a seed though?

[Plantas da Caatinga @CaatingaPlantas]

A wild resurrection plant: this Caatinga Selaginella species "dies" every dry season only to rehydrate when it rains.

[Plantas da Caatinga @CaatingaPlantas]

The genus Cnidoscolus in the Euphorbia famly include many Caatinga endemics, but beware of its stinging hairs.