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Global Plants, a network of over 300 herbaria, botanical gardens, museums and universities in over 75 countries. Tweets on all things botanical.
New York, New York
Joined March 2010
Exciting 🌱 news! A libguide for Plants & Society is now available on @JSTOR! This new collection includes resources with a focus on the historical, cultural, and environmental implications and uses of #plants by humanity. Click here to learn more: https://t.co/4IXoQeZx4f
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A great thread on herbarium specimens! #herbarium
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Terribly sad news for the plant science community. Most sincere condolences to @DanforthCenter
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Todd C. Mockler, Member and Geraldine and Robert Virgil Distinguished Investigator at the Danforth Center since 2011. Todd was a talented scientist and a wonderful friend. Learn more about his work at https://t.co/EQvXccf43N
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Healthy seedling of Guinean endemic highly threatened tree Apodiscus chevalieri in the nursery of UGANC-National Herbarium of Guinea, Conakry part of planting batch for our Franklin Fondation project @KewAfrica
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Seeds of survival: Botanic Gardens honors the Black experience
news.cornell.edu
The exhibition includes an outdoor plant display, audio tour and an indoor exhibit, all describing plants that are significant to the Black experience in the Americas dating back to the transatlantic...
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Lovely indeed. Beautifully mounted.
Working through the herbarium of Rev. Adam Buddle (1662-1615) herbarium today. Rather lovely.
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Botanists are disappearing – just when the world needs them most https://t.co/E9Xe5E0DHb
@ConversationUK 🌳☘️🌴🍁🌿🎋🌼🪷#plants #plantblindness #natureawareness #iamabotanist
theconversation.com
Botany is disappearing from university modules in the UK.
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After the flood; an update from the RBGE Archives one year on. - https://t.co/O1JGfwmeQF
@TheBotanics
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We are sorry to have missed it! Hope to see everyone in Ghana.
The just concluded #AETFAT congress in #Livingstone, #Zambia, was a major success. Looking forward to the next one in #Ghana three years from now. @KewScience @KewAfrica
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Katombora Forest Reserve, Livingstone, Zambia AETFAT tour destination. Woodland on Kalahari sand, with Commiphora, Combretum, Grewia, Terminalia, Afzelia, Baikaea...@KewAfrica
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Another great example of herbarium outreach!
In Ulysses, Bloom visits @NBGGlasnevin & receives a letter w/ pressed flower from his lover Martha. Using the 'Language of Flowers' he recounts her letter. To mark the 100th Annvrsry of its publication we've made a display of pressed wildflowers referenced by Joyce #Bloomsday
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Post from Herbarium World on Clare Hickman's The Doctor's Garden: https://t.co/PEa8uXDCty.
#garden #horticulture
herbariumworld.wordpress.com
In this series of posts, I’m writing about books that look at botany more broadly, that is not just scientifically, but also in terms of various aspects of cultural history. Here I want to ex…
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Now this is a great GIF! #herbarium
This pressed celandine sent by Wordsworth to the naturalist, Adam White, will feature in our new exhibition, 'Spirit of Paradise'.
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Not all herbaria are in herbaria. Some are in library collections, and it's wonderful to find they are continuing to be acquired.
This herbarium compiled by Jane Hood in her travels ca. 1860-80, with short passages in her sloping hand and collections of pressed flowers and leaves. Purchased thanks to the Dorothy MacLean memorial fund. https://t.co/a7WRFxODck
#botanical #NaturalHerstory #blackerwood
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This is a great trend, to link specimens to ethnobotanical knowledge.
A new AHRC-funded project, Rights and Rites, examines traditional uses of traditional Indian plants. Botany specimens from India will be digitised to improve access to the collection and curators will share knowledge with local Indian communities #BotanicMonday #Rights&Rites
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Post from Herbarium World on aesthetics as a guide to plant collecting: https://t.co/EERMqt7z7i
#herbarium #aesthetics
herbariumworld.wordpress.com
Glechoma hederacea, Stadhuis Museum Zierikzee, NLD In the last post, I discussed a number of studies that found biases in plant collecting based on a plant’s size, form, and color. These are …
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