🌴 PALM PAPER PUBLISHED 🌴 Big congratulations to Juan C. Copete for his second PhD #paper — possibly the most beautiful story ever told in palm #taxonomy!!!! 📃"Attalea taam—a new palm species well known by the Cacua Indigenous people" phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/v... 👇Thread (1/10)

Today we start the Tropical Plant Families course, 50 families in 3 weeks! #Chemistry and #Ethnobotany too. So grateful to my team, to @ingridolivares.bsky.social and the gardeners, for their support 🙏🌴 #tropical #plants #botany #herbaria #botanicalgardens #taxonomy

We continue with the process of #participatoryresearch in the #Amazon, #Colombia, in all its stages from beginning to dissemination. Seeking to create bridges between #knowledgesystems. Big 🙏 to @snsf.ch for support and to the Isaza Lab 🇨🇴 and the Cacua Indigenous People 🍃