As botanists and Plant Architects in Montpellier 🌿, his vision of forests 🌳 profoundly shaped the way we think about and observe plants. A giant has passed, but his legacy will remain a major source of inspiration, worthy of our deepest admiration and gratitude.

Happy #FossilFriday from this smiling fossil bundle of vascular tissues! It belongs to a cladoxylopsid, an extinct group related to today's spenopsids (horsetails) & ferns 🌿⛏️ This specimen comes from Southern France & dates from the early Carboniferous, about 350 million years ago. #paleobotany

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Structural and physiological constraints on arborescent lycopsid establishment and growth nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check our paper with @paleobotanist.bsky.social on root suckering in a Permian glossopterid from Antarctica 🌳⛏️🇦🇶 It's the 1st report of root suckering in this group & the oldest in the fossil record doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... 🧵1/5 #paleobotany #botany @umramap.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

Kunming #BotanicalGarden (CN) is absolutely amazing!✨ Beyond safeguarding thousands of species through living collections, it's actively involved in the regeneration of extremely #rareplants by eventually climbing 80-meter #trees to collect #seeds and saving species from #extinction💚 #conservation

Serial section videography (SSV): A low-cost protocol for generating 3D reconstructions of internal plant structure New in #AppsPlantSci by Jacob Suissa & Giselle Reyes bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #plantanatomy #plantdevelopment #microCT #PlantScience

We have a new Dr in #paleobotany! Congratulations to @thibault-durieux.bsky.social who successfully passed his viva. It was a great journey & he made the advising job very easy for @petermoonlight.bsky.social, Carla Harper and I. Big thanks to the examiners Jenny McElwain & @sandyheth.bsky.social!

🍃 Science out of the lab and into the night 🌙 Honoured to present our research on plant diversity at #MEDNIGHT ! #PlantDiversity #PlantScience #PublicEngagement #ResearchOutreach

You know what's cool too ? Plants ! We had 3 of them this year : the cretaceous conifer Sequoites🌲, a really close relative of our modern seed plants called Runcaria🌾, and Asterophyllites, which is the given name of the leaves from carboniferous tree-size horsetails like Calamites🌿

One of our Fellows has co-curated a fascinating exibition of Indian botanical art. Henry Noltie & Sita Reddy chose 52 drawings by Indian artists, and where possible identified the artists responsible. 'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026. Images © RBG Kew.

Just back from the Sino-French International Research Network on Biodiversity (SF-IRN-B) Summer School held in Yunnan, China🌿 Huge thanks to CAS, @cnrs.fr, & organizers for this exceptional event! Congrats to all participants for your curiosity! #Biodiversity #Yunnan #SummerSchool #ClimateChanges

When it's been a really long day of parenting... You're doing a great job, Mama 🧡

Applications for our 2026 Associate Editor Mentoring Scheme close TOMORROW! ⏰🌏 If you'd like to learn more about the peer review process then this voluntary two-year role could be the role for you 🌱🧪 Find out more and apply: bit.ly/47uwYlD

I had the pleasure of taking part in The Mediterranean Researchers' Night #MEDNIGHT and organizing a workshop with 🍃Murielle Droissart @plantnet.bsky.social 🌴Anne-Laure Decombeix @aldpaleo.bsky.social 🌿Gaëlle Viennois Grateful to Genopolys and to all who joined!🌸 #WomenInScience #Botany

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exposed roots of the Mediterranean shrub Daphne gnidium, it's can be massive #botany #belowground #plant #roots #Thymelaeaceae

🌱Budding plant architects 🌱 @hugobonnaudet.bsky.social exploring plant architecture 🌳in a practical workshop we organised at the University of Montpellier 🌺 @umontpellier.bsky.social @umramap.bsky.social #PlantArchitecture #Botany

#EBDSeminars 🔸Camila Benavides-Frías (Social-Ecological Systems Institute SESI) 🔹Food comes from agroecosystems: the role of agriculture for the reproductive of life 📅Thursday, 18th September. 13h CEST Live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqGf...

Very proud of @yuansoup.bsky.social on getting this PhD chapter published- a synthesis that started due to travel restrictions from COVID-19 but turned out to be very insightful, highlighting the botanical consequences of defaunation 🦜🦣🥑🥭

Did you know that wild plant harvesting is an ancient practice that remains vital—from medicine to food and cosmetics? 🌿 Yet its ecological impact is overlooked. In a new study, we assessed 692 species in France (12% of the flora) to uncover drivers and conservation gaps. #WildPlants #Conservation

New paper online by @vincyane-badouard.bsky.social et al. @umramap.bsky.social in Agriculture and Forest Meteorology: "Using high penetration airborne LiDAR and dense UAV scanning to produce accurate 3D maps of light availability in dense tropical forest" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

With the extinction of dinosaurs, dense, closed-canopy forests could proliferate, leading to shifts in fluvial structure and accumulation of organics. This represented a profound change in the landscape, illustrated here by the incomparable Julius Csotonyi.