Asphodelus fistulosus. Filaments are kind of special! #wildflowers #botany

Water drops on sporophytes #moss

Unfurling fern for #FernFriday, eclipsed by bright flowers of purple toothwort (Lathrea clandestina), who parasites the roots of surrounding trees 🌿 #botany

A short comment on Francis Hallé's career and legacy in press in Botany Letters, the journal of @societebotaniquedefrance.fr doi.org/10.1080/2381... #botany #trees

#Paleobotany This #FossilFriday is dedicated to the Famennian fern-like plant Rhacophyton, a striking example of how reconstructing whole plants from fragmentary individuals remains challenging, even with thousands of specimens. Unraveling its architecture is also at the heart of my ongoing research

Apenas um tronco petrificado passando por aqui. Ele pertence a uma gimnosperma (pinheiros, araucárias e companhia) e viveu na Era Paleozoica. Duque Bacelar, MA. #FossilFriday

📣📣 The 12th European Paleobotany and Palynology Congress will take place September 20-24 in Münster 🇩🇪 🌿⛏️ Abstract submission will be opened from mid-April to May 31. All the information is now online here: www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto... #paleobotany #palynology #palaeobotany

Introducing a new citizen science nature app that’s geared towards the scientific community

A cold and windy but really great day exploring the Escandorgue #forest with the 3rd year students from the Forest ecology course led by Melaine Aubry-Kientz @umramap.bsky.social 🌲🌳🌱 + @arteanest.bsky.social & @marionlest.bsky.social who also teach in this course. #botany

A Postdoctoral Research Fellowship on Mesozoic #Paleobotany and Ecophysiology is available at the University of Nottingham with Barry Lomax. jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

A cold and windy but really great day exploring the Escandorgue #forest with the 3rd year students from the Forest ecology course led by Melaine Aubry-Kientz @umramap.bsky.social 🌲🌳🌱 + @arteanest.bsky.social & @marionlest.bsky.social who also teach in this course. #botany

Pteridium aquilinum (Bracken) crozier pushing through last year's fronds. The fine brown hairs quickly disappear, but at the moment they highlight the extra-floral nectaries (two green glossy glands) at the pinnal junctions. #fernFriday #nectar

Lest you think epiphytes are found only in the tropics, look to the bryophytes. Mosses & liverworts survive drought by drying without dying. They can shrivel up on dry days but resurrect in the next rain. #bryophyte #moss #liverwort #epiphyte #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Coming Tuesday at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Holly-Anne Turner from University College Cork, Ireland. Sign up here: paleopercs.com/participate/

Sometimes you go really far to find fossils that are way too young for your taste and partly rotten...but still very interesting! Here's one example, an early Jurassic conifer branch from Carapace Nunatak, Antarctica 🌲⛏️🇦🇶. Happy #FossilFriday! #paleobotany OA paper from 2023 doi.org/10.3897/fr.2...

The Palaeontological Association recognizes excellence in our profession by the award of medals and other prizes. 🏅 The Association sees its lists of medals and award winners as a record of the very best palaeontologists worldwide 🌍 [1/2]

Luiza Teixeira-Costa: Strange Lives of Plants and Their Human Stories www.botany.one/luiza-teixei... Botany One interviews Dr Luiza Teixeira-Costa, a Brazilian botanist working in the integration of botany and environmental humanities. #Botany #PlantScience

How old are tomatoes, peppers and golden berries? 🍅🌱 We combined fossils with molecular data to time-calibrate the evolutionary history of #Solanaceae Curious about total-evidence dating? Take a look! academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨Undergraduate research🚨 SOFT TISSUE PRESERVATION OF SILICIFIED MELASTOMATACEAE FRUITS BURIED BY INTRAPLATE VOLCANISM IN THE EARLY OLIGOCENE CAPELLA FLORA, EASTERN AUSTRALIA Andrew Carl Rozefelds et al www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #PlantScience

JA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Eucryphia fruit and leaves (Cunoniaceae) from the earliest Miocene Ñirihuau flora, Patagonia, Argentina Mauro Gabriel Passalia, Matías A. Machado, Ari Iglesias, Ezequiel I. Vera www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #PlantScience

L'appel à communication pour l'édition 2026 du congrès de l'Association Paléontologique Française est ouvert : apf2026.sciencesconf.org L'APF 2026 aura lieu à Paris du 1er au 6 juin 2026 au @mnhn.fr et à @sorbonne-universite.fr @recherche.mnhn.fr

Our blog "Plant Life Belowground" celebrates two years anniversary. Thanks Curtis Lubbe, the editor! Read and share, ecologists need to learn more about belowground!

New paper out in JSP! Franco et al. present the first unequivocal Larreoideae (Zygophyllaceae) fossil woods from the early Miocene Mariño Formation, Argentina. Read here: buff.ly/5LxYY0k Wood anatomical features were imaged using SEM and their phylogenetic affinities were evaluated. #PaleoSky

This is my catsistant. He finds #paleobotany utterly boring. His job for the last 15 years has been to slap me while I write to encourage me to go do something else!

Very pleased with my Adiantum formosum gametophytes. Sowed at an Edge Hill University / BPS spore sowing workshop 6 weeks ago. #FernFriday #BritishFernSociety

#FossilFriday The Uppermost Famennian of Belgium is revealing a flora that was likely well adapted to mires and backswamp ecosystems, in alluvial floodplains. Lycopsid trees and the weird Barinophyton are among these pioneers that floorished in wetland habitats of the Old Red sandstone continent.

Well, hello Osmunda, happy #FernFriday 🌿!

You can now send your abstracts for the 11th International #Conference on Functional-Structural #Plant #Models (FSPM) this October in Montpellier, co-organized by members of @umramap.bsky.social 🌿💻 #plantScience

New on the Belowground blog: Rhizome senescence: Throwing away to survive plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/03/18/r...

🌿 New paper out! We present new insights into the evolution of Zygophyllaceae based on Miocene fossil woods from Argentina. This study links wood anatomy, phylogeny, and major environmental changes like Andean uplift and increasing aridity. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PKCWH...

A fibrovascular bundle of a Cretaceous palm 🍄+👀

We at @ijpsjournal.bsky.social are excited to announce that we're soliciting proposals to write a Coulter Review: www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ijp... Curious about this opportunity? Want more details? Well we have a thread for you:

This #FossilFriday we welcomed Dr Artai Santos from @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social to our Evo-Devo seminar. Artai shared amazing findings on Cretaceous seagrasses with evidence of herbivory from El Chango, México. #palaeobotany #EvoDevo @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social

does anyone want to talk to me about frost rings? -Why are they not shared within cores from the same tree? -Are frost rings more likely in tree with recent insect defoliation?

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Polypodium sp in the sunshine. #fern #botany

I have another #paleobotany restoration guide for this #FossilFriday. This time, it's Kimuriella densifolia, a whole plant bennettitalean from the Late #Jurassic of Japan. This plant is composed of three organ taxa: Williamsonia, Zamites, and Weltrichia. #paleoart #sciart #botany

Volcanos & fossils🌋🌲🌳🍂 Woodcock & al in press | The #fossil localities of the Piedra Chamana Fossil Forest (Eocene, #Peru): a prospectus for research and conservation | Acta Palaeobotanica: acpa.botany.pl/The-fossil-l... #FossilFriday :)

Of course the best fossils are always ✨Paleozoic plants✨ This is a polished section of a Psaronius tree fern from the early Permian (~290 million years) of the Czech Republic 🌿⛏️ We can see the root mantle (R) and the base of several leaves (arrows). Happy #FossilFriday & #FernFriday! #paleobotany

#FossilFriday: a lump of lycopod. Part of the trunk of a large Carboniferous tree in sandstone, situated outside The Sill, the Northumberland National Park visitor centre.

Look at all these beautiful flattened Jurassic friends! ⛏️🤓 All from the Paläontologisches Museum München public exhibit -names in alt-text #fossil #paleontology #paleobotany

Excited to share a new paper written by a AAAS Policy Fellow I mentor, Dr. Lisa Walsh. “This review synthesizes literature on fieldwork safety across scientific disciplines, highlighting four facets of safety for leaders and researchers to address: physical, social, financial, and psychological.”

I'm at the Paläontologisches Museum München this week, working on some long-overdue projects 🙃 They have cool #fossils in the exhibit hall but this is my favorite: a giant slice from the trunk of a redwood #tree (Sequoia sp. ) that was growing in the US ~16 million years ago. 🌲⛏️ #paleobotany

We invite contributions for our open session at ATBC2026: Education and outreach initiatives for tropical biodiversity. 🍃We are seeking researchers & students at all career stages to present outreach initiatives related to tropical biodiversity & conservation.🍃 forms.gle/PmQSkXvk8kMc... #ATBC2026

🌴🦈Carboniferous Puertollano🐸🌋 In the lands of La Mancha, fossils from the Late Carboniferous known from old coal mines reveal a tropical coastal swamp ecosystem, rich in aquatic and plant life #paleoart #FossilFriday #Carboniferous #Puertollano 🧵Thread for additional explanation

Thrilled to announce that the University of Lomé #Togo 🇹🇬 inaugurated the first Palaeontology Collection building of the country last week! This was an exciting moment, which was made possible by the support of #UNESCO and the University of Lomé. #fossils #conservation #geoheritage

#FossilFriday Horsetail (Asterophyllites sp.) 323 - 307 mya, #Kentucky & conifer branch & cones (Sequoia affinis) 41 - 34 mya, #Montana Yale Peabody Museum #paleobotany #palaeobotany

Le saviez-vous ? Les plantes possèdent leurs propres mécanismes immunitaires de défense contre les infections ! Ils sont surtout étudiés chez les plantes à fleurs mais c’est chez une cousine des mousses que des scientifiques du @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social ont fait une découverte fascinante. 🔽

🌿Check the newly published article “Shoot apical meristem and initial vascular development of a late Palaeozoic spermatophyte (order Medullosales)” in @annbot.bsky.social by Lydéric Portailler & Ludwig Luthardt. (1/9) 👉https://doi.org/qr8r #Paleobotany #PlantEvolution #FossilPlants #Botany

www.cell.com/current-biol... Our new quick guide to Prototaxites is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social !