How many different #lichens on a single #tree? 🌳 I don't know but this is just a selection from the upper branches of a single oak (Quercus robur or petraea) uprooted this week by storm Nils 🌪️🌳 #botany

Asked my Intro Plant Bio students to make Valentine's day plant meme using what they learned in class so far, and dang, it gives me SO MUCH joy seeing all the submissions. Some of my favs here: #valentinesday #ib103 #iamabotanist #plantjoy @botsocamerica.bsky.social l @plantteaching.bsky.social

Nice weather for liverworts 💚☔💚☔💚

The first article from my PhD has just been published in JAES: "Lutetian swamp-freshwater palynoflora from Bultu-Zile (central Anatolia, Türkiye): implications for Eocene ecosystems of Balkanatolia". doi.org/10.1016/j.js... This work has been conducted as part of @dispersal-erc.bsky.social 1/4

🚨 UK Student Palaeo Research Opportunity 🚨 Brymbo Fossil Forest are offering students the chance to get involved in active palaeontology research & excavations ⚒️ at a unique #Carboniferous fossil site in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 - See below for more details ⬇️ #Paleontology #Geology #Fieldwork #FossilFriday #ECR

A piece of Glossopteris leaf from the late Permian of Antarctica ~260 million years old 🌳⛏️. Broken but showing nice detail of the veination. Glossopterids are seed plants that were found on all of today's southern continents during the Permian. Happy #FossilFriday! #paleobotany #botany

A stunning work on the anatomy of the apical meristem in Medullosans, showing fascinating similarities with extant cycads! academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...

The seed fossil record of Solanaceae revisited is out! Using morphometrics and micro-CT data from 110 fossils and 354 extant taxa, we described 6 new genera and 6 new species, doubling fossil diversity for the nightshades! 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/tax.... @iochromaland.bsky.social

This is truly baffling. A seed does not become an angiosperm fruit only because there are some vague lines on it. It is the equivalent of having a full diapsid skull and saying you found Permian dinosaurs...

Are you a community ecologist interested in fire ecology? Come join our group! Postdoc position for project FEVER, that aims to understand how fire affects biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and biogeochemical cycles in Mediterranean forests @umramap.bsky.social.

A 95 million year old angiosperm leaf preserved as an impression in an iron-cemented sandstone. The original leaf may have gone, but you can still see where invertebrates nibbled it. From Dakota Formation, Kansas. Cenomanian, probably. #FossilFriday ⚒🌏🔬🌱🍃🌳

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Reappraisal of Pseudobornia ursina Nathorst: implications for the evolution and systematics of Palaeozoic sphenophytes doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

Reposting this old photo for #FossilFriday: what you are looking at is a fragment of Callixylon wood from the Late Devonian, about 360 million years ago, seen under the microscope. The elongated structures are the conducting cells & there's a hair on the right for scale. 🔬🌿⛏️ #paleobotany

📯 New fire study from Uzbekistan, carried out by Cheima Barhoumi and her co-authors. This study explores Holocene fire regimes through macro-charcoal analysis of sediment cores. Results reveal distinct fire phases driven by both climatic fluctuations and human activities doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

📢 Abstract submission for IPC7 is now open! We invite researchers to submit their abstracts through our web 📅 Deadline: 30 June 2026 🔗 Submit your abstract: www.ipc7.site #IPC7 #Paleontology #AbstractSubmission #CapeTown

Pour grandir, les plantes récupèrent divers éléments dans les sols. Certaines d’entre elles sont capables d’en extraire ou d’y dégrader des substances polluantes : c’est le principe de la phytoremédiation.

A selection of #lichens enjoying the very rainy weather around Montpellier these days much more than the rest of us! 💚 #botany

Today's lycopsids ("clubmosses") are small plants and do not produce wood but some of their Paleozoic relatives did! This is a detail of the wood cells in a stem of Sigillaria from the Carboniferous of the USA 🔬🌿⛏️ Happy #FossilFriday! #paleobotany #botany

It's been a while so I'm re-sharing this list by @ezequielvera.bsky.social! #paleobotany #botany go.bsky.app/B7Y3ja7

Job offer @umramap.bsky.social in Nouméa herbarium, New Caledonia emploi-recrutement.ird.fr/offre-de-emp...

This is my favourite portrait of the moss Bryum capillare, Capillary Thread Moss, on an ancient fallen trunk of Sambucus nigra, Common Elder. The development of corky bark is common with age, but this is a particularly splendid example.

It's been a while so I'm re-sharing this list by @ezequielvera.bsky.social! #paleobotany #botany go.bsky.app/B7Y3ja7

Our paper is out 🎉🌲🌳 Conduit and pit dimensions scale in a coordinated way from the treetop to coarse roots in three boreal tree species. academic.oup.com/treephys/art...

Having fun with the microscope lately. Here’s one of my favourite artsy and slightly psychedelic shots of #Marchantia chloroplasts and a fluorescent membrane reporter. (z-stack maximum projection)

Closeup of an arctic willow, one of the smallest willows on the planet. Spitsbergen, Svalbard, July 2025. #MacroMonday #EastCoastKin #Photography #BlueskyPhotography #Nature

This #AustraliaDay fill your boots by celebrating the discovery of mammal pollination of Banksia! Not only do these smelly plants attract non-flying mammals, they actually exhibit the first compelling evidence of primary pollination by rodents (alongside honey possums)! 🧪 doi.org/10.1093/botl...

Lady Slipper Orchids growing in carpets of caribou lichen. #Newfoundland, Canada. #orchid #wildflower #flower #botany #lichen #fungifriends Photo from June, 2025 during a wilderness #backpacking trip.

Story: phys.org/news/2026-01... Paper: cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/... #climatechange #spain #drought #flood #extremeweather #dendroclimatology #treerings

Here is a working Starter Pack for Plant Ecophysiologists! Please let us know if you want to be added to this list in a comment or DM. #botany #plantecophys #PhysFam go.bsky.app/Pbq39H7

Can anyone help the wonderful @hayleymcmechan.bsky.social with this macrofossil from buried #ghostpond sediment? It has been a mystery for a few years in @uclgeography.bsky.social @bramblebotanist.bsky.social @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social @annasolcova.bsky.social

We are looking for a dedicated and passionate digitisation assistant to help us image the historic herbarium collections in Trinity College Dublin. If that sounds like you, please get in touch and apply! my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

3D models of fossil flowers help reconstruct past ecosystems. Such findings provide analogues to better understand how tropical biomes may respond to ongoing #climatechange. 🌏 Simon’s doctoral research was awarded the museum’s von Pawel-Rammingen Doctoral Thesis Award! 🏆 (3/3) 📸 2023 Beurel et al.

For this #FernFriday and #FossilFriday, let's look at Symplocopteris wyatti, an early fern from the Carboniferous of Australia 🌿⛏️. This #fern formed trees with "false trunks" up to 50 cm in diameter, composed of several branching stems intertwined with petioles and roots #paleobotany 🧵1/3

Polycauliona sp #lichen on seaside cliffs. #Newfoundland, Canada. The photo covers about 3cm left to right. #fungi #fungifriends

See also nice summary here in @science.org: www.science.org/content/arti...

Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage

Every time, even in fossils! 🌳🌲🌿 #botany (this was saved in my phone, I'd be happy to acknowledge the person who made it!)

New on the Belowground blog: How old do herbs live? plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/h...

Porotrichum lancifrons (Hampe) Mitt. Venezuela, Andes, Merida, way to Laguna Coromoto, cloud forest, on tree trunk and root, 2500 m, leg. 2001 Lüth 3295. Characterized by well-developed stipe and strongly appressed hyalin stipe leaves.

180 million years old conifer trunks in Curio Bay's Jurassic fossil forest in New Zealand 🌲⛏️ The site has numerous fossil #trees, including in situ stumps & fallen logs. #paleobotany #botany #FossilFriday. More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curio_Bay

Really beautiful! Hernández-Damián & al. in press| Simojoflorum mijangosii gen. et sp. nov. preserved in the #Mexican #amber unravels the polycarpellate condition in the tribe Mimoseae (Caesalpinioideae, #Fabaceae) | Historical biology: doi.org/10.1080/0891... #palaeobotany #Mexico #flower #botany

January 14, 1801, birthday of French geologist & palaeontologist Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart. His pioneering work on the relationships between extinct and existing plants has earned him the title of father of paleobotany 🌿 blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2015/10/the-...

Attirer efficacement les pollinisateurs est essentiel à la reproduction de nombreuses plantes. Plus anciennes que les plantes à fleurs, les cycadées utilisent la chaleur de façon séquentielle pour faire venir des coléoptères sur leurs cônes mâles puis femelles !

Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday, with this beautiful but not very huggable #tree photographed in the Aswan Botanical Garden a few years ago 🌳 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceiba_s... #botany

Both of the plants in this photo are the “purple pitcher plant” (Sarracenia purpurea). The one on the right has normal pigmentation. The one in the left is a quite uncommon all green variant. Always nice finding these. #botany #plant #pitcherplant #carnivirous, #Newfoundland, Canada.

Greenwood & Conran in press | The #Paleogene– #Neogene silcrete #macrofloras of Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre and northeastern deserts, South #Australia: a literature review and assessment of collections | ALCHERINGA: doi.org/10.1080/0311...

Couroupita guianensis has common name "Cannonball Tree", which we'll get to, but the first thing most notice is the 'flagelliflory'. They're covered in racemes, modified floral stalks, from which sprout flowers or inflorescences. They have 1000's of flowers open at any time, all over the trunk.

Looking for a new 📕 to read about plants?? I highly recommend the brilliant book ‘Ferns, Lessons in survival from Earth’s most adaptable plants’ Written by @fernway.bsky.social and Jacob Suissa with amazing illustrations by Laura Silburn 🌿 #FernFriday 🌿

New paper in press on a Late Devonian fossil plant assemblage from Australia, with lycopsids (Leptophloeum), cladoxylopsids (Denglongia), and progymnosperm (Archaeopteris/Callixylon) remains 🌿⛏️ #paleobotany #FossilFriday doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...

If anyone out there works in a lab that can do this sort of thing and would be willing, I'd be very grateful. These charcoal remains could be 30, 300, or 3,000 years old. It would be fascinating to know, whatever the results show.