A fun & productive first week! We’ll be sharing more about the diverse & threatened South African flora & @subotgarden’s important conservation work over the next few weeks, so follow along to learn more. [7/7]

We love a collab & photoshoot! Quick and intriguing work by @kristina_buch_ and Ray Wightman at @slcuplants to image the moonflower under cryo-SEM. Have a look at some of the stunning images. Got any more ideas for research with #CUBG? Give us a holler!

We're very lucky to have @Cambridge_Uni scientists on site at @slcuplants. Today they took fresh plant material from our Strophocactus wittii faded flower & examined its petal surfaces and pollen. This might be the first time Strophocactus wittii has been seen in this way!

Share https://t.co/zH5DaYec8r #CUBG curation and glasshouse team facilitated some really cool images of the moonflowers by #SLCU. Crisp pics of outer tepals and pollen to come! 👏🏼👏🏼

beginning cold stratification of seed collected from Kyrgyzstan in August! Counted seed (to glean germination rates) and took some photos under the microscope (for fun). #CUBG

Chambered or diaphragm pith? Winter is a great time to admire the subtle details of well known trees. #Juglansregia #CUBG

4 of 4/ Are you involved in research that @CUBotanicGarden can support? We're here to facilitate! Reach out to us at curation@botanics.ac.uk. #ScienceCollaboration #BotanicResearch @pterodactylmatt #SpiderResearch #WildlifeConservation 🌿🕷️🔬🌳

3 of 4/ Matt is a Teaching Associate in the Dept. of Zoology at U of Cam. Next time you're at the Botanics, look out for black pads on trees. These are traps used by Matt and his students to study spiders. They're exploring spider diversity present on different trees. #Research

2 of 4/ Notes from the talk include copious scribbles of phrases like “advanced parental methods, e.g., female schoolbus” and “spiders found in stratosphere (not on purpose! lolz oops)”. #SpiderFacts #Zoology

1 of 4/ Thank you to @WildlifeBCN for hosting Dr. Matt Wilkinson’s awesome talk "Spiders – What a Tangled Web They Weave" on November 27th. Every so often we step away from plants into the full throttle of Animalia! #Spiders #WildlifeTrust

A satisfying treasure hunt: I found 67 new type specimens of Asian and American #Meliaceae last week. They were "hiding" amongst the 1.1 million specimens of @CUHerb. They will soon be digitised and shared online, to facilitate the work of #taxonomists. @plantsci @CamGLAMresearch

As part of our project exploring soils and greenhouse gases in the Fens, PhD student Thomas Idris Marquand @EarthSciCam visited @CUBotanicGarden to analyse the soils in their #Fens display. Such a lovely part of the garden, but are the soils like the real Fen? Find out soon....

The Department is delighted to announce the appointment of @jmhibber as our new Head of Department ! 🌿🌾 Read more here 👇 https://t.co/QFYFoCwNQU

There are SO many positives of doing a #PhD! It can be easy to feel flooded with the negatives but this image highlights the many benefits of the phd process 😍 https://t.co/NZYZBk0BpP

Still can't believe how stunning these RUBY tobacco roots are. Truly endless forms most beautiful. A great convo with @allybear64 got me inspired to play with rooooooooots. Can't wait to get back to land plant work once the lab relocation finishes.

We are delighted to announce that the missing #TreeOfLife notebooks belonging to Charles Darwin have been safely returned to the UL. Read the full story: https://t.co/MrEDbV9AV6 #DarwinAppeal

We're looking for an Assistant #Librarian to look after our #plantscience #libraries 📚 including our #library in the Department and the Cory and Herbarium Library housed at @slcuplants 🌱 which includes books annotated by Charles #Darwin ✒️ See details 👉 https://t.co/PgRFs6ZbQA