9 am to Noon Saturday, Nov 8th, @mobotgarden.bsky.social event Día de los Muertos www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/da-de-los-mu... Garden Admission Free to St. Louis City and St. Louis County residents on Saturday and Wednesday morning, otherwise Admission Fee applies.

Palo santo, the holy or sacred wood incense of the Americas ... #SmellingTheBouquet Palo Santo resin incense pieces Courtesy of Carmen Ulloa Ulloa Palo Santo resin incense granules Courtesy of Alfredo Fuentes Pix: Virginia Harold

Resin plants used for incense grow around the world. 👃💐 These are found in @mobotgarden.bsky.social Shoenberg Arid House #SmellingTheBouquet. Abyssinian myrrh (Commiphora habessinica) is native to eastern Africa with thorns and anti-bacterial qualities; its resin is used medicinally and is edible.

Not all plant resin smells the same ... 👃💐 In perfume, Peru balsam (Myroxylon peruiferum) is used in amber accords and other gourmand scents (those that smell like food such as chocolate or honey). Its scent include vanilla, smoky, balsamic, and clove notes. You can smell it in #SmellingTheBouquet

#Incense #SmellingTheBouquet Courbaril, Black copal, Copal negro (Hymenaea courbaril) Commonly found in the Caribbean, Central & South America, courbaril is an evergreen hardwood tree with many uses. The wood is used for furniture and flooring and the fruit pulp is used for food and drink.

Incense, a biological material that releases fragrant smoke when burned, is one of the most ancient forms of scenting the air or perfuming oneself. Several plants are capable of producing resinous sap, when hardened, becomes able to be burned as incense. See these and more in #SmellingTheBouquet

Thanks so much to Frauke Galia from An Aromatic Life for the opportunity to share more about #SmellingTheBouquet 👃💐!

The @mobotgarden.bsky.social water lilies may be gone for 2025, but you can still sniff the flower's fragrance in #SmellingTheBouquet @mobotmuseum.bsky.social! Nymphaea caerulea, the sacred blue water lily of the Nile, is a diurnal water that is fragrant with waxy and green floral notes.

Join us next week for our annual John Dwyer Lecture in Biology! 🌿 🗓️ Friday, November 7 from 4–5 p.m. 📍 Bayer Event Center 🔗 buff.ly/RqKtlzt 📸 Crop Trust #MOBOTGarden

The agricultural history of your favorite fall cucurbits: pumpkin 🎃 (ancient) theconversation.com/pumpkins-jou... and butternut squash 🧈🥜 (relatively new) www.edibleboston.com/blog/2023/11...

Thanks to the Internet of Senses Institute and Sofia C. Ehrich, @mobotmuseum.bsky.social's curator Nezka Pfeifer had the opportunity to talk more about how the #SmellingTheBouquet exhibition came to be. Check out the podcast on YT and other podcast platforms youtu.be/C315azl3aRg?...

When the thank-you is a hand-drawn portrait of your best [email protected]'s botanical ceiling mural)! Thanks so much to Ms. Martin's and Ms. Lancaster's class from North Kirkwood Middle School for their great visit to #SmellingTheBouquet #PlantsAndScentsInTheGarden this month

St. Louis isn’t experiencing the bright yellow, orange and red fall colors that it has in years past. Instead, green leaves are turning straight to brown. The culprit: heat and drought. #STL #fall #autumn #leaves #horticulture #trees @stlpublicradio.bsky.social @mobotgarden.bsky.social

What makes fall colors pop? 🤔🍂 As the season of autumn settles in, we explore in our latest Discover + Share the various factors that give fall its vibrant colors. Click the link below to read more now! 🔗 buff.ly/veb4ND7 📸 Kristina DeYoung #MOBOTGarden

#SmellingTheBouquet Unlike most other insects, male orchid bees (Euglossa dilemma) do not internally synthesize their own mating compounds (pheromones). Instead they collect them from the environment: oils from orchids (of course!), wood, fungus, and feces. Pix: M. Sandoval

Thank you for this wonderful post @flannerm.bsky.social 👃💐

Join us for the final event of the #SmellingTheBouquet Sachs Museum Performance Series on Oct. 11! Explore scents and poetry with poet Devin Johnston in two performances at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Free with Garden admission. Sponsored by Nancy Ridenour. www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/sachs-museum...

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the spring, who reaps a harvest in the autumn.” — B.C. Forbes🍂 Autumn is starting to show its colors in the 📍Kemper gardens! Take a peaceful stroll through the area on your next Garden visit. 📸 Nathan Kwarta #MOBOTGarden

Happy World Coffee Day! WFO is looking for a coffee expert, and we don’t mean your local barista. We want to form a Taxonomic Expert Network (TEN) for Rubiaceae, the coffee and quinine family. Swipe through to learn more about TENS, and send your favorite rubiaceae experts our way!

Day 1️⃣ of Best of Missouri Market® 2025 is here! 🍁 Prior to your arrival, please review our parking guidelines and tips! ⏭️ To learn more about Best of Missouri Market®, please visit the link here: buff.ly/rt4VkWr 📸 Nathan Kwarta, Sundos Schneider #MOBOTGarden

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Join us for the final event of the #SmellingTheBouquet Sachs Museum Performance Series on Oct. 11! Explore scents and poetry with poet Devin Johnston in two performances at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Free with Garden admission. Sponsored by Nancy Ridenour. www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/sachs-museum...

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Just visited a super sweet endangered species public mural project in Grand Rapids. Each species done by a local artist and there's a QR code for local range maps and conversation actions on the placards. www.pleasantpeninsula.org/2025-species

A milestone for plant genomics just out @natgenet.nature.com 130 bryophyte genomes! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage. Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...

@cygnusplantxray.bsky.social @kellouise.bsky.social @rantycat.bsky.social @peterrabbitt.bsky.social @rajbhagwandin9.bsky.social thanks so much for the reposts 👃💐

11 am and 1 pm 🎶 performances this Saturday at @mobotgarden.bsky.social

The live collections @mobotgarden.bsky.social offer myriad opportunities to learn more about plants. Dr. Mónica Carlsen shared her botanical scent research in #SmellingTheBouquet @mobotmuseum.bsky.social. She conducted headspace/scent trapping to gather data about the variety of tropical plants.

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This Saturday!👃💐

OK, we've found our favorite Garden spot this summer over at 📍 mobotmuseum.bsky.social! 😌 We're curious: what's been your favorite Garden spot so far? 📸 Nathan Kwarta #MOBOTGarden

Sept 14 is World #TasteAndSmellDay, an annual celebration of the profound impact that taste and smell have on our daily lives. Celebrate by exploring @mobotmuseum.bsky.social's UNCOVERING THE FRAGRANT plants guide to the Museum's mural either in person or virtually-download at the linktree in bio!

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Blog post on plants & scents is up! 👃💐#DiscoverAndShare The #SmellingTheBouquet exhibition @mobotmuseum.bsky.social explores the spectrum of scents plants create, and is inspired by the collections @mobotgarden.bsky.social. Pix: Virginia Harold discoverandshare.org/2025/09/05/s...

My amazing #Wiki colleague @tiagolubiana.bsky.social has released this lovely video on the #BHLImageExporer. This tool (bhl-gallery.toolforge.org) explores @biodivlibrary.bsky.social images in #Wikicommons. It facilities image reuse in the #Wikiverse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK9i... #ILoveBHL

@mobotgarden.bsky.social @mjm314.bsky.social @nerxualoh.bsky.social @specistdemina.bsky.social @billie-e.bsky.social thanks so much for the reposts!

Thanks so much to Beth Butterfield at Fragrantica for visiting and writing about #SmellingTheBouquet exhibition @mobotmuseum.bsky.social! www.fragrantica.com/news/Smellin...

Sniff the Campanita when you visit @mobotmuseum.bsky.social and @mobotgarden.bsky.social! Endemic to the Dominican Republic (which is how it gets its species name), Cubanola dominguensis is a small shrub or tree that is known for its elegant hanging trumpet-shaped pale greenish-white blossoms.

Often referenced as a symbol of healing and devotion, lavender has a scent used for peacefulness and calm.👃💐💜 Native to southern Spain, Woolly lavender gets its scientific name (Lavandula lanata) from the pronounced woolly hairs on its leaves. #SmellingTheBouquet @mobotmuseum.bsky.social

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Meet the carrion flower, Stapelia mutabilis! It is one of the scents you can sniff in the current exhibition @mobotmuseum.bsky.social #SmellingTheBouquet. It is also blooming right now @mobotgarden.bsky.social's Shoenberg Arid House! Perfumer Weston Adam interpreted its unsettlingly meaty scent.

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Can you find this spot @mobotgarden.bsky.social? Thanks to the creative designs of Claire Krofft and Charling Chen, the grounds @mobotmuseum.bsky.social are looking amazing! This one is a little harder to find but when you do you'll be rewarded with lush vines and purple blooms of hyacinth bean 💜

6 pm Tonight at @mobotgarden.bsky.social 🍀 Ireland and Its Aromatic Heritage Short Documentary Film & Discussion Panel Admission Fee applies

Have you ever experienced scents through sounds? @mobotmuseum.bsky.social & Mezzo Soprano Benedetta Orsi (together with St. Louis Womens Chorale) will take you on a captivating journey through scents and essences in classical music. www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/sachs-museum...

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