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Jonas Frei

@jdfrei.bsky.social
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Naturalist, landscape architect, author

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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Trapa (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.
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Walnut 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).
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Conifers. Cones from the genera: Thuja, Thujopsis, Chamaecyparis, Pinus, Picea, Cypressus, Callitris, Taxodium, Tsuga, Cryptomeria, Calocedrus, Tetraclinis, Larix, Metasequoia
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Quercus - 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
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Aegean pahtway finds.
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Medicago seedpods.
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Peaches. 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.
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Stored life.
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Seedpods. Including some Australian natives like Eucalyptus, Casuarina, Brachychiton & Callistemon.
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Seedpods. Medicago, Eucalyptus, Silene, Quercus, Cistus, Papaver, Acacia, Casuarina
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
5-25 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.
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Bean diversity. Mostly cultivars of Phaseolus vulgaris.
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Some australian seedpods; mostly casuarina and allocasuarina.
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Juglandaceae. Walnut cross-sections of various species; mostly Juglans, some Carya. From my book ‚Die Walnuss‘
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Diversity of #Almonds. Wild species, cultivars, and a few hybrids. - Mandelvielfalt. Wildarten, Sorten und einige Kreuzungen. #amygdalus
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Fabaceae seedpods & seeds
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
Zea mays. Seeds of a few corn varieties.
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Colorful corn (Zea mays) seeds from various cultivars, some of these are known as ‚glass gem corn‘.
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
My 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
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Insects in baltic amber, frozen in tree resin 40 mio years ago.
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Aristolochia clematitis seeds
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
The beauty of bean biodiversity. Cultivars of phaseolus and vigna.
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Botanical collectibles
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Papaver. A few poppy seedpods. P. somniferum P. argemone P. rhoeas P. dubium Meconopsis cambrica
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Seedpods. Casuarina, Allocasuarina, Liquidambar and others.
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Vases? Poppy seedpods.
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Raphanus raphanistrum, pods of a beach radish.
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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Quercus. Species diversity and similarity shown on some acorns.
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