Vintage Botanical Prints – 64 in a series – Papaveraceæ, The Poppy Tribe from The Natural Order of Plants (1868)
Prints and more avoilable at
http://DouglasEWelch.com/shop/773
#Papaveraceæ #Poppy #plants #flowers #leaves #botany #botanical #print #art #artwork #garden #gardening #science #painting #illustration
One of my favourite times of the year: when the trees start to turn green and everything is in bloom at the edge of the forest and in the Streuobst-Wiesen.
The Exquisite Illustrations of a Pioneering Woman Herbalist
A Curious Herbal, the first modern edition of Elizabeth Blackwell’s 18th-century botanical guide, grants her the recognition that she has long deserved.
By Lauren Moya Ford (from the archives)
Books by Elizabeth Blackwell at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53378
Vintage Botanical Prints – 63 in a series – Botanical Alphabet Cross-Stitch from the Anacostia Community Museum
Not a vintage piece of the art, but rather something in a vintage style. I happened across it while searching the Smithsonian sites and thought it would make an appropriate addition here. — Douglas
#crossstitch #plants #flowers #leaves #botany #botanical #print #art #artwork #garden #gardening #science #painting #illustration
#Sarracenia 'Dana's Delight', pitcher plant.
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
Eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis) doing its strange cauliflory thing. I planted three in my front yard and for the next several weeks people will stop in awe and ask what species it is. When possible, I try to have small potted seedlings on hand to give to them. #trees #swarthmore #redbud #fabaceae #botany #cercis #cauliflory
#NewSpecies!
Clusia dotana
A newly discovered clusiaceae from #costarica!
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1E3EB21B-FFFD-7666-2AB1-FC363430FF08
Publication: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-024-10225-0
#KewBulletin #ClusiaDotana
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #ecology #taxonomy #nature #biodiversity #conservation #botany #wildflowers #flowers #wildplants #plants #wildlife #clusiaceae #fruits
Vintage Botanical Prints – 62 in a series – Polyanthus or Cluster Narcissus (1836) from the Cleveland Museum of Art
Prints and more are available at
http://WelchWrite.com/shop/772
#Florida Panhandle / #Gulf (of Mexico) Coast #CarnivorousPlants
This is the time of year for these amazing plants to spring forth...
I love this photo because it has three completely unrelated species in one frame!
Yellow Trumpet #PitcherPlants, Godfrey’s #Butterwort, and cute little #Sundews. 
Many more photos in the attached gallery...
https://mdpaths.com/rrr/nature/plants/pitcher_plants/pitcher_plants_2020/index.html
Vintage Botanical Prints – 61 in a series – Malus domestica from Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection (1910)
Prints and more are available at
http://WelchWrite.com/shop/771
Vintage Botanical Prints – 60 in a series – Anemone and Lilium from Nederlandsch bloemwerk (1794)
Looking for an interesting alternative to "Sincerely" at the end of an email, for my new professional horticulture email address. Something botanical, green, sciency, growing...
Vintage Botanical Prints – 59 in a series – Pelargoniums Amethyst and Illuminator from The florist and pomologist (1879)
Test your #botany / #tree / #forest knowledge.
Do you recognize the tree? (grows in Europe)
Click the link to find out if you were right! If not: please do reply with the tree species you thought it was!
Herken jij de boom op de foto's? Klik de link om te kijken of je het goed had!
https://www.bomengids.nl/l/sp/118.html
posted by #bomengidsnlbot
Scientists from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland are arguing that the massive and mysterious tubelike fossils known as "prototaxites" deserve their own life form classification because, basically, they're too weird to belong to any other. @Futurism has more, including why prototaxites have long been a head-scratcher and a point of contention for scientists who to this day cannot figure out their nature:
Four highlights from pavement and road verges in #Swindon this week for #WildflowerHour - Shining Cranesbill, Oxford Ragwort, Field Wood-rush and Wood Forgetmenot. The last of these will be a garden escape although it's a native species as well. #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography
Pasqueflowers looking beautiful. 
#WildflowerHour
#Nature #Botany #WildflowerHour
Vintage Botanical Prints – 58 in a series – Begonia diversifolia (1837) from The floral cabinet and magazine of exotic botany (1837)
Snake's-head Fritillary in flower today in #Bath Somerset #UK.
#Nature #Wildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #NatureCommunity #Plants #Plant #Botany #Wildflower #Flower
One question I often use at book club if the discussion runs down is "what did you learn from this book that surprised you?" For THE LIGHT EATERS: HOW THE UNSEEN WORLD OF PLANT INTELLIGENCE OFFERS A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF LIFE ON EARTH, by Zoë Schlanger, you could ask that question for almost every chapter because it's just a parade of astonishing discoveries about plants. Did you know that:
* Plants that move in response to stimuli, like Venus flytraps and the Mimosa pudica (a.k.a the sensitive plant), are anaesthetized by ether?
* Arabidosis plants react to the sound of caterpillers chewing on their leaves, producing defensive compounds?
* Time-lapse videos of parasitic vines show them twining and 'sniffing' around to find a suitable tree branch?
Another such parasitic vine, the boquila, can shape-shift to a degree, adjusting the shape of their leaves to match the leaves of the tree they're on. It's not clear how they know what shape to take: they will mimic the shape of tree species not native to their South American environment and can also imitate artificial leaves, so it seems like they must be using some form of vision.
Talk of plant responsiveness, or 'intelligence', is tainted by flimsy work in the 1970s that hooked up plants to polygraphs and photographed their auras. The modern work surveyed in this book is therefore pretty cautious, but it presents a growing amount of evidence that plants really are more able to respond to the environment & communicate with each other. I was not expecting to enjoy a book about botany this much!
