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New paper out today in @plantspplplanet by Thom Dallimore of @AmgueddfaCymru and colleagues on the Importance of integrating herbarium records into conservation plans: a case study on Honduran ferns and lycophytes #BotanicMonday https://t.co/N8sc4ludjZ
For International Bagpipe day and #BotanicMonday we have a Spear Thistle, Cirsium vulgare from the collections @Museum_Cardiff. This specimen was collected in 1998 from Grimsay
For #BotanicMonday a paper on a new tool to find potentially misidentified specimens in data sets by @sophiebryo, @ilichenmoss, @8thtree & @NathanProbably. Both Sophie and George spent time @Museum_Cardiff as part of their studies enabling this paper https://t.co/OuU1bBbUvn
A huge thank you goes to Conservation Placement student Kaitlin Allen who has been working hard to clean and improve the storage of specimens in the Economic Botany Collection @Museum_Cardiff, particularly the gourds and lacebark brushes #BotanicMonday
In December, Botany @Museum_Cardiff received a fantastic donation of c. 1000 timber specimens from across the globe collected by George Andren (1927-2024) who worked in the timber industry; the collection is currently being frozen to prevent infestation #BotanicMonday
Fairy tale characters Hansel and Gretel found a gingerbread house while lost in the forest, but did you know that ginger is native to SE Asia, and the spice comes from the rhizome or rootstalk, like this example from collections @Museum_Cardiff #BotanicMonday #MuseumAdvent
The Urban Meadow @Museum_Cardiff is a little haven for pollinators. On a summer’s day it is teeming with bees, hoverflies, grasshoppers, ladybirds and craneflies. Monitoring the meadow, and managing it for wildlife, is vital https://t.co/9MUSNC8w6T #BotanicMonday @Rockspotter1
Ingrid Jüttner and Bart Van de Vijver working on historical collections @botanicgarden01, Belgium, for the Diatom Flora of Britain and Ireland project #BotanicMonday https://t.co/fjhTLZ2HIH
Our fungal curator @NathanProbably has just published a paper exploring the role of names for fungal species, and highlighting the links between the debates on eponyms and the debates on DNA sequences as types #BotanicMonday https://t.co/RJt0ONGi32
The magi brought frankincense to baby Jesus. Frankincense is an aromatic resin, from Boswellia trees. Traded on the Arabian Peninsula for over 6,000 years, it is edible and valued for its medicinal properties and religious significance #MuseumAdvent #BotanicMonday
#LundiMotivation
En ce début de semaine et #botanicmonday, si nous faisions l'inventaire de la diversité florale bordelaise ?
J.-F. Laterrade a listé les plantes présentes à #Bordeaux, 1ère édition en 1811.
C'est sur https://t.co/G3r43YVXYB :
#BotanicMonday For centuries there was a close relationship between art and #science. An example is the scientific expedition to the #Philippines in 1786 in which participated the botanist Juan de Cuéllar to investigate and exploit their natural resources. #SciArt #HistSci
Jessie O’Callaghan painted the rare cup fungus (Microstoma protractum) at Dunkeld in 1921 - a new record of this species, now thought extinct in Britain:
Read the paper: https://t.co/3SlbLv12dV
#sciart #womeninscience #BotanicMonday
Celebrating Jessie O’Callaghan, talented artist & botanist from Cardiff, who painted 157 watercolours of fungi in 3 albums held @Museum_Cardiff.
Further details:
https://t.co/3SlbLv1A3t #sciart #womeninscience #BotanicMonday
Using historical and new collections, Smriti Gurung, Kathmandu University, Nepal, and our curator Ingrid Jüttner study how diatoms changed in Himalayan streams over the last 30 years because of a warming climate #BotanicMonday #Diatoms
We have a new article about the Diatom Flora of Britain and Ireland project: https://t.co/PxhjHMbqsx #BotanicMonday
#botanicmonday #lundifleuri
Quoi de mieux que ce lundi férié pour observer la #nature ! 🌱🌹😎
On se plonge aujourd'hui sur le cours de la sève, avec ce mémoire du 18e s. envoyé à l'Académie de #Bordeaux : https://t.co/DQ8EMHjfKa
#BotanicMonday: This is a beautifully pressed sample of our #ColoradoNativePlant, golden currant, Ribes aureum, by the Denver Botanic Gardens #Herbarium. Image by Tony Frates. The herbarium sheet and images were found on #SEINet.
#BotanicMonday: This is a beautifully pressed sample of our #ColoradoNativePlant, prairie bluebells, Mertensia lanceolata, by the Denver Botanic Gardens #Herbarium. Images by Paul Rothrock. The herbarium sheet and images were found on #SEINet.
More Lundy seaweed observations - New article in the latest issue of the Bulletin of the @PorcupineMNHS by @PembrokeBells and David Harries #BotanicMonday
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