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Ingrid Olivares

@ingridolivares.bsky.social
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Research leader and herbarium curator at the University of Zurich. Exploring how plants build communities, cross borders & create diversity ingridolivares.com

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Ingrid Olivares @ingridolivares.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The biology of fungi, and the way they shape the life of all other organisms is absolutely mind blowing. Knowing that there are still so many wonders awaiting to be unveiled fills me with curiosity and research ideas. Here some treasures of the fungarium from the Z+ZT herbaria.
Largest rust fungi specimenResearcher showing fungi sporesMap of Mount Pilatus from 1858 with places where lichens were collectedHerbarium of lichens from 1858
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Ingrid Olivares @ingridolivares.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
In today's tropical botany course at our Department of Systematics and Evolutionary Botany I talked about Gesneriaceae, Asteraceae, Araliaceae and Bignoniaceae. I am very grateful to the gardeners for providing us all the amazing plants www.bg.uzh.ch/de.html
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Ingrid Olivares @ingridolivares.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
How do species diverge? Could the relative immobility of plants increase their likelihood of speciating in the same place?🧵
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