Congrats to @maxfontaine.bsky.social and teammates from @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social for winning the Botanical University Challenge 2025 🥳🎉🎉🎉🎉 WELL DONE ABERDEEN ✋

Here are 2 entities known as a very variable taxon, #Corybas pictus #Orchidaceae. [Left] A lowland “variant” from Borneo, and [Right] A clone very common in cultivation and likely a highland “variant”. Do you think they are the same? Please let me know what you think 🤔

Clever ecological strategies

It's a weird tree anyway and then it's also a Eugenia in a Syzygium majority area

📣 Out Now! #Eugenia venteri (sect. Jossinia), likely the first flagelliflorous #Eugenia (#Myrtaceae) ever recorded in the 🌏, is found on Manus Island, #PNG. This amazing tree produces flowers on the ground and gets pollinated and dispersed by native 🐀 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

“Caring, empathy and compassion are evolutionary advantages that compensated for the physical disadvantages of bipedalism.” - Jeremy DeSilva, anthropologist (Nov 2004) english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Two #ultramafic species of #Syzygium #Myrtaceae from the #Phillipines described as new to science by researchers from University of the Philippines Los Baños and Diliman #OpenAccess #EJBotany @RBGE_Science today: rbge.cc/3Vdaoa3

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