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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Botany One interviews Dr Marcelo A. Aizen, an Argentinian researcher fascinated for the interactions between plants and pollinators. botany.one/2025/04/marc...
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Marcelo A. Aizen: “Pollination is More Than Just Animals Visiting Flowers”
Botany One interviews Dr Marcelo A. Aizen, an Argentinian researcher fascinated for the interactions between plants and pollinators.
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Mediterranean plants say thank you! www.unionesarda.it/en/cagliari-...
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Cagliari, botanist Gianluigi Bacchetta receives the prestigious Golden Oak Award - L'Unione Sarda English
Recognition for his "exceptional dedication" and "remarkable scientific contributions to the conservation of Mediterranean flora and habitats"
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Building on a long history of successful collaboration, Washington University in St. Louis and the Missouri Botanical Garden are welcoming two internationally recognized botanists who will have joint appointments with both research institutions. source.washu.edu/2025/03/worl...
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World-renowned experts in tropical plant biodiversity join WashU, Missouri Botanical Garden
Lúcia Lohmann and Toby Pennington will have joint appointments with both research institutions.
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
If you are in London this summer, you might not want to miss this. www.thenewsmarket.com/news/world-l...
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WORLD LEADING RHS BOTANICAL ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW RETURNS TO SAATCHI GALLERY THIS SUMMER
Botanical art and photography from around the world will be on show at the Saatchi Gallery this summer as the annual RHS exhibition returns for a fifth year. The RHS Botanical Art and Photography...
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
The Botanical Society of South Africa along with the South African National Botanical Institute (SANBI) have teamed up to give young people a chance to upskill themselves, build green careers and better the environment through the project’s various programs. www.goodthingsguy.com/environment/...
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New Natural Heritage Project Nurtures Careers and Conservation
Several young people are to be a part of an exciting project that’ll nurture both their careers and conservation efforts!
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Dustin Wolkis: the "kuleana" of working with the native Hawaiian Flora
Botany One interviews Dr Dustin Wolkis, a passionate for seed conservation working in one of the most biodiverse yet endangered islands.
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This is a great way to improve your botany study skills. thursd.com/articles/a-b...
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A Botanist's Guide to Effective Study Methods in Plant Science
Combining field observation, lab analysis, and digital resources elevates botanical research to new heights.
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Always fun to see a plant you haven't seen in a century! arunachalobserver.org/2025/03/16/r...
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Rare plant rediscovered in Arunachal after a century | Arunachal Observer
By A O News Service ITANAGAR, Mar 15: Researchers have rediscovered a rare plant species from the Apiaceae family, Hymenidium amabile, in India after more than a century. A team of researchers of Tawa...
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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Turning Loss and Loneliness into Wonder: How the Victorian Visionary Marianne North Revolutionized Art and Science with Her Botanical Paintings
A vibrant foray into “a perfect world of wonders” fueled by the bittersweet dimension of life.
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
A botanist was kidnapped in Colombia and used his time well. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Kent exotic garden dreamt up during nine-month captivity
Tom Hart Dyke is celebrating the 20th anniversary of his World Garden near Eynsford.
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Paleobotanists make an interesting discovery about ancient African forests. phys.org/news/2025-03...
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Discovery of a new species of fossil tree helps paint picture of ancient African forest
Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other collaborating institutions have identified ancient fossils of a newly descri...
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
For all you botanical illustrators out there, a new book, Botanical Revolutions, offers a global history of plants in art. www.artandobject.com/press-releas...
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New Book Explores How Botanical World Changed the Trajectory of Art | Art & Object
Author Giovanni Aloi delves into the interconnectedness of humanity, art, and plants
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Amateur botanists release new guide to Minnesota Wildflowers. greatlakesecho.org/2025/03/17/p...
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Putting passion to pages: Minnesota authors release second guide to state wildflowers | Great Lakes Echo
By Shealyn Paulis Two Minnesota nature enthusiasts have spent years chasing the state’s most elusive wildflowers. Their journey, filled with adventure and discovery, is now captured in their upcoming ...
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Botanist Gary Krupnick used specimens in the US National Herbarium to discover that Heliconia species are on the decline. www.earth.com/news/half-of...
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Half of the world's Heliconia species are at risk of extinction
Nearly half of Heliconia species—tropical plants vital to rainforest ecosystems—are at risk of extinction, according to new research.
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Ever wonder how the largest herbarium in the US works? www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpmU...
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Go Inside One of the World's LARGEST HERBARIUMS — Ep. 355
YouTube video by Summer Rayne Oakes
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Botany One @botany.one · 28/03/2025
Dr. Onstein studies botanical diversity with a statistical mind, seeking patterns across evolution, functional ecology, and paleobiology. From fieldwork in Madagascar to leading research at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, she reveals how plant adaptations shape entire ecosystems.
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Renske Onstein: A Passion for "Big" Plant Questions
Botany One interviews Dr Renske Onstein, a research passionate for the evolution of plants and their characteristics on a...
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Here is part two of the botanical adventure to the Berkeley Herbarium, this time to show how plants are made ready for filing there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKEZ...
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Plant Collecting & Herbarium Research! Pt 2
YouTube video by Science IRL
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Six minute video on collecting plants for the Berkeley herbarium. Very informative! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Oz...
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Plant Collecting & Herbarium Research! Pt 1
YouTube video by Science IRL
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A group of botanists has discovered a new species of rainforest tree in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. Tessmania princeps is in the Fabaceae and it is huge. news.mongabay.com/2025/03/3000...
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‘3,000 year-old’ trees in Tanzania are new species
Botanist Andrea Bianchi and local plant experts Aloyce Mwakisoma and his brother Ruben were exploring two tiny village forest reserves in the Udzungwa mountains in 2019, when they stumbled upon some i...
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Botanists discover beautiful new iris family species in South Africa. groundup.org.za/article/new-...
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New plant discovered in Stellenbosch
“Miracle” iris emerges after decades under a pine plantation
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Fourteen artists have joined forces for a botanical-themed art exhibition at the Malaysian National Art Gallery Langkawi from today until July 31. Wish we could go! www.nst.com.my/news/nation/...
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14 artists collaborate for botanical-themed art exhibition at Langkawi National Art Gallery | New Straits Times
LANGKAWI: Fourteen artists have joined forces for a botanical-themed art exhibition at the National Art Gallery Langkawi from today until July 31.
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Plant libraries, known as herbaria, are invaluable facilities to study all aspects of plant science. They must be saved! www.ksmu.org/news/2025-02...
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Plant libraries hold essential clues about climate change, but they're vulnerable to funding cuts
Scientists say amid climate change and biodiversity loss, the world’s herbaria could hold the keys to overcoming the crises in their folders of dried plant specimens. But their future is in question a...
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
California research scientists discovered a new species of manzanita, Arctostaphylos nipumu, named for the Nipomo Mesa south of San Luis Obispo. www.vcstar.com/story/news/l...
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California researchers find new manzanita with gray shaggy bark growing near Santa Barbara
Researchers from U.C. Riverside announced in January they found an entirely new species of California manzanita. Its bark is gray instead of red.
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Check out the review of a new British book on mosses and lichens. We love cryptogams! plantcuttings.uk/2025/02/28/m...
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Moss and lichen: A deep dive into cryptogams
Elizabeth Lawson’s “Moss and Lichen” is a groundbreaking addition to Reaktion Books’ Botanical series, shifting focus from vascular to non-vascular plants and encompassing f…
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Botany students get a taste of the flora of Panama in this adventure by NYBG. www.nybg.org/planttalk/fi...
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Field Studies in Panama: Researching Aquatic Flora | New York Botanical Garden
Assistant Curator Ana María Bedoya, Ph.D., recently returned from her field studies in Panama and shares her experience researching aquatic plants in the region. I have been in Panama with students an...
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I love these herbarium milestones. It is a lot of work to do this and filing specimens all day is tough on the body, especially when you have to reach those high cubbyholes! fortworthreport.org/2025/02/21/b...
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Botanical Research Institute of Texas adds 1.5 millionth specimen to herbarium
PRESS RELEASE - The Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), the research arm of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, recently celebrated the addition of
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
A new murder mystery featuring a botanist! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723513...
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The Botanist's Assistant by Peggy Townsend: 9780593638118 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A murder in the science lab shatters a woman’s quiet and ordered life when she decides she must solve the crime herself in this entertaining and uplifting mystery. Plenty of people consider Margaret....
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Learn about the great things that the New Mexico state botanist Erika Rowe does. sfreporter.com/columns/3-qu...
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3 Questions with New Mexico State Botanist and plant ecologist Erika Rowe
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
We’re excited to announce that Aaron David, Program Director of Plant Ecology at Archbold Biological Station, will deliver the Emerging Leader Lecture at #Botany2025 in Palm Springs, CA! To learn more about Aaron, and all of the featured speakers, visit: www.botanyconference.org/speakers.html
A promotional graphic for Botany 2025, themed "Botany Without Barriers," taking place in Palm Springs, CA, from July 26-30. The graphic features Aaron David, smiling outdoors against a mountainous backdrop with blooming flowers. He is identified as the Program Director of Plant Ecology at Archbold Biological Station and will be delivering the Emerging Leader Lecture. The design includes a QR code for more information and the website "www.botanyconference.org."
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Two Australian farmers, with the help of a Queensland botanist, find a new Solanum species during their friendly competition to find new plants. au.news.yahoo.com/friendly-com...
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Friendly competition between Aussie cousins solves 20-year mystery on neighbouring properties
A small 'weedy' looking growth had left the Queenslanders puzzled for decades. Now they finally have an answer – and so do the official text books.
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Botany One interviews Dr Bruce Anderson, a born entomologist who became passionate about plants and their interactions. botany.one/2025/02/bruc...
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Bruce Anderson: Cracking the Plant Language Code
Botany One interviews Dr Bruce Anderson, a born entomologist who became passionate about plants and their interactions.
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This woman's great-great-great grandmother was an amateur botanist who collected and preserved California seaweeds more than 100 years ago. Talk about a valuable collection! www.independent.com/2025/02/12/c...
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Century-Old Seaweeds Discovered in Carpinteria Attic
Rare species collection shows ocean changes after industrialization and plastics.
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Congratulations Lynn Clark! She deserves this after many years studying tropical American bamboos. news.las.iastate.edu/2025/02/28/l...
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Lynn Clark awarded José Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany - LAS News
Iowa State University
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Meet local Black botanist whose research keeps DC's cherry trees blossoming each Spring
Howard University alum, Roland Maurice Jefferson, is credited with helping DC's cherry trees survive pests and climate change.
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This is what botanists think everyone should know and spend hours teaching it! www.michigandaily.com/opinion/colu...
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Everyone should learn plant identification
If plant identification of invasive species became common knowledge, more collective action could be taken to help solve this looming threat of environmental degradation.
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Look at this incredible new plant species in the Asteraceae that the botany program discovered in Big Bend National Park. www.nps.gov/bibe/learn/n...
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New Plant Species Discovered at Big Bend National Park - Big Bend National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
US federal employee firings have already affected botanists working for the Park Service and other federal agencies. www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/02/scie...
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Science In The National Park System Taking A Hit From Employee Firings
Go past the visitor center and the restrooms and leave the parking area, and you'll enter a realm of the National Park Service that isn't in the public's eye but which is being hit hard and disrupted ...
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Botanists are trying to save a rare tree in Zanzibar from destruction. news.mongabay.com/2025/02/fore...
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Forest of rare trees in Zanzibar now earmarked for ‘eco-resort’
MICHEWENI, Tanzania — Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa. The intsia trees (Intsia bijuga) were found growing ...
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Way to go Desert Botanical Garden botanists! dbg.org/herbarium-10...
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Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium Celebrates Adding Its One Hundred Thousandth Accessioned Specimen | Desert Botanical Garden
It’s hard to believe that summer is just around the corner. The Children’s Education team at Desert Botanical Garden is already getting ready for one of its favorite programs – Summer Camp.
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This is a great use of herbarium specimens by botanists trying to prioritize future work. news.unm.edu/news/new-res...
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New research prepares way for future botanical research
To plan for the future, it’s sometimes necessary to look to the past. To improve natural history collection and analysis in the future, a team of researchers is looking at collections of plants from a...
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I found out it is not possible to edit Bluesky posts after they are posted so thanks Bob.
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Follow the career of Leo Song from a boy admiring his father's flowers to developing the arboretum at Cal State Fullerton. news.fullerton.edu/spotlight/ca...
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California Botanist Became a Pioneer in Arboretum Development at CSUF
When former Cal State Fullerton greenhouse tech Leo Song was a child, he remembers the huge white chrysanthemums that his father grew in their home garden. Each flower was spectacular. In honor of his...
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The Ohio state botanist finds a Lake Erie beach plant last seen there 125 years ago! advertiser-tribune.com/news/562777/...
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Endangered plant found on Erie County beach
Plant was last spotted in 1899
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
One woman's journey into botany. www.connexionfrance.com/news/my-stor...
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My story: I moved to France and became a botanical artist
Kate Churchwell explains quitting the ‘rat race’ in the City to pursue her passion for plants and art
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Seen in NYC area too.
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Botanists from Nagaland, India discover new plant in the genus Aeschynanthus (Gesneriaceae). morungexpress.com/new-epiphyti...
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New epiphytic flowering plant discovered from Nagaland
Dimapur, January 20 (MExN): A team of researcher have reportedly discovered a new plant species Aeschynanthus clarkei sp. nov from the Nagaland state of Northeast India.
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The Botanical University Challenge is today at 9am eastern time. This article shows how quizzes like this spur interest in botany. www.reading.ac.uk/news/2025/Re...
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Botanical quiz brings budding plant scientists together - University of Reading
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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Looking forward to watching #BUC2025 Round 1 online at 2pm today. BSBI is proud to be a Botanical University Challenge supporter: 31 teams from across Britain & Ireland are taking part this year (a record number). Follow @bucbotany.bsky.social for links, updates and plant-based fun & inspiration!
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
In Minot, ND the elementary school kids have a botany club. Way to go! www.kfyrtv.com/2025/02/05/h...
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Hoeven Botanist Club members learn about plants, life skills
The fifth-grade members of Hoeven's Botanist Club are gaining more than plant knowledge. The club was created last year and is advised by the fifth-grade teachers, Sarah Hochhalter and Tracy Nissen.
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Botany Visible @botanyvisible.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Here is a guy with a plant science degree from UCONN who now takes care of the plants at the Smithsonian greenhouses in the Natural History Museum. Cool job. today.uconn.edu/2025/02/grow...
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Growing Plants in ‘America’s Attic’ - UConn Today
From new research to interior displays, CAHNR alum Carl Johnson helps keep the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History alive through horticulture
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