Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Trapa (water caltrop / chestnut) Sculptural, horned fruits with edible seeds. Once split into 90+ species based on fruit shape, now often treated as one: T. natans. Native to Asia, Europe & Africa; (re)introduced in parts of North America where fossils show it once grew. 040
Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Walnut cross-sections. Shell halves from various Juglandaceae species, genera Juglans & Carya. A cultivated variety of the persian walnut is shown in the third row, left. Right to it is a wild form of from the same species. From my reference collection for my book ‚Die Walnuss‘ (German). 1225
Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Conifers. Cones from the genera: Thuja, Thujopsis, Chamaecyparis, Pinus, Picea, Cypressus, Callitris, Taxodium, Tsuga, Cryptomeria, Calocedrus, Tetraclinis, Larix, Metasequoia 0356
Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Quercus - Oak acorns Species shown: Q rubra Q petraea Q robur Q agrifolia Q coccifera Q coccinea Q palustris Q ilex Q pubescens Q frainetto Q aucheri Q macrocarpa Q cerris Q faginea Q x hispanica Q x libanerris 04010
Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Peaches. Prunus persica cultivars including nectarines and some wild relatives like davids’peach P. davidiana, the rare fergana-peach P. ferganensis and hybrids to the almond; P. x amygdalopersica. Photographed with the help of the INRAE peach collection. 27413
Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Seedpods. Including some Australian natives like Eucalyptus, Casuarina, Brachychiton & Callistemon. 311814
Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Seedpods. Medicago, Eucalyptus, Silene, Quercus, Cistus, Papaver, Acacia, Casuarina 1303
Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 26/05/20255-25 mio years old fossil nuts - European forests of that time were rich in genera: butternuts (Juglans), hickories (Carya), storax trees (Styrax), hazelnuts (Corylus) and mastic seeds (Mastixia). Most of these species later went extinct in Europe during the ice ages. 1454
Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Bean diversity. Mostly cultivars of Phaseolus vulgaris. 1282
Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Some australian seedpods; mostly casuarina and allocasuarina. 0170
Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Juglandaceae. Walnut cross-sections of various species; mostly Juglans, some Carya. From my book ‚Die Walnuss‘ 0385
Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Diversity of #Almonds. Wild species, cultivars, and a few hybrids. - Mandelvielfalt. Wildarten, Sorten und einige Kreuzungen. #amygdalus 1347
Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 23/11/2023Colorful corn (Zea mays) seeds from various cultivars, some of these are known as ‚glass gem corn‘. 010719
Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 16/11/2023My two Monographs on the species, botany, history and culture of Walnuts and Hazelnuts. 'Die Walnuss' portrays the Juglandaceae, 'Die Haselnuss' the genus Corylus, the Hazels. Including detailed illustrations and species portraits of all species. Written in German, available wherever books are sold 090
Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 14/11/2023Insects in baltic amber, frozen in tree resin 40 mio years ago. 081
Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 25/10/2023The beauty of bean biodiversity. Cultivars of phaseolus and vigna. 0266
Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 14/10/2023Papaver. A few poppy seedpods. P. somniferum P. argemone P. rhoeas P. dubium Meconopsis cambrica 1222
Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 14/10/2023Seedpods. Casuarina, Allocasuarina, Liquidambar and others. 1162
Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 11/10/2023Quercus. Species diversity and similarity shown on some acorns. 0192