🌿 Join our webinar: outreach on natural history collections Fri, June 5th 2:30PM (Paris time)! We'll introduce initiatives promoting collections with researchers, postdocs and students from @umontpellier.bsky.social, @trinityresearch.bsky.social #Biodiversity #ScienceOutreach #Fossils #Herbarium

📣 Abstract submission is now opened for the 12th European #Paleobotany and #Palynology Congress : www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto... 🌿⛏️ Deadline is May 31. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about our symposium for early career researchers.

🌋🌋🌋🌋🌲🌳🌲🌳 My newest paper! A small contribution to the #Tenerife and #Canary Islands #fossil record, this time focusing on #lava tree moulds, plant fossils that are often neglected in #Macaronesia. Open acess in @historicalbiology.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/0891...

New on the Belowground blog: Digging up a treasure: Needle in a haystack or gold everywhere? plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/d...

Exceptional anatomical preservation of Jurassic Austrohamia leaves from #Patagonia reveals distinctive features of ancient #Cupressaceae New #AJB research by Sebastian Molano, Giovanni Nunes, Ignacio Escapa, Josefina Bodnar et all. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #fossil #paleobotany

Imagine you're shrunk down to amoeba size & could observe a tiny plant root under the soil. The first thing you might notice is that the root isn't all plant cells. Both inside & outside the root are symbiotic fungal cells (grey in photo) in close association, working together. (🔬:Eye of Science)

Nous recrutons un-e technicien-ne en expérimentation végétale pour un CDD de 4 mois. La personne recrutée rejoindra le Pole Technique et Experimental de @umramap.bsky.social. Toutes les informations sont dans l'offre en ligne ici: jobs.inrae.fr/ot-29079 Date limite de candidature le 18 juin.

Found Dodder (Cuscuta sp.) for the first time today up on the heath wrapped around heather. Crazy looking. It really stood out. What an interesting plant. Parasitic.

Super excited to see Atlas of Botany in print!!! A pleasure to work with the wonderful team from DK and the @thebotanics.bsky.social I wrote the Ancient Biomes section covering some of my favourite stories about plant evolution from the last 500 million years! @instmolplantsci.bsky.social

Très heureux de contribuer à mon échelle à ce beau journal ! Aujourd'hui on parle de #biogeographie et d'arbres fabuleux : les #Dipterocarapaceae Very happy to do my part to contribute to this wonderful news paper ! Today we talk about #biogeography and one of my favorite trees: #Dipterocarps

Danger flowers 🌼 The folded petals on these daisies mean...

These trees look like Jimmy Hendrix & Claude Monet did a collab, but this is just what the rainbow eucalyptus (Eucalyptus deglupta) looks like every day: fabulous. The only 'rainforest' eucalyptus, it's native to the Philippines & Indonesia, but introduced in Hawaii, Florida & California.

Hi all, Just a reminder that we're still accepting talk and poster abstracts for our Symposium Plant Paleoart: Perspectives and Promises, and the deadline is in two weeks, on the 31st May! I'm really looking forward to seeing some of you there!!! #FossilFriday #paleobotany #paleoart #sciart

Tela Botanica lance "Les 72h des plantes sauvages" ce week-end, du 16 au 18 mai 🌿🌸 www.tela-botanica.org/2026/05/les-... #botany #botanique

Here’s another floating aquatic fern: Salvinia molesta. As the specific epithet suggests, this South American species is a troublesome invasive weed on other continents. Photo by @simplesustainablelife1 [on Instagram], used with permission. #aquatic #Salviniaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱 1/2

This artwork was created last year for @jeremywyman.bsky.social and @sandyheth.bsky.social, to accompany their paper 'Comparative rhizotaxy of fossil and living isoetalean rhizomorphs reveals development through rootlet intercalation within a triangular lattice'. #paleoart #paleobotany #paleontology

I'm very happy to welcome Dr. @thibault-durieux.bsky.social to the Plant Ecophysiology group at @unihohenheim.bsky.social. Thibault's exciting @humboldt-foundation.de project will immerse us deeper than ever in the fossil record over the next two years. Looking forward to the journey!

We described this method in detail in our paper published earlier this year. doi.org/10.1093/tree...

Part of the rooting system of the lycopsid trees, from the latest Carboniferous of France 🌿⛏️. The rooting structures ("Stigmaria", rhizomorphs not truly roots*) bear rootlets, visible here on the sides & as scars on the Stigmaria axis. *more: doi.org/10.1086/720641 #paleobotany #FossilFriday

The editorial board of Geobios aims to support 2 early career researchers (PhD or postdoc) in #palaeontology, #palaeobiology, #palaeoecology, #palaeobiogeography, (bio) #stratigraphy or #biogeochemistry. Each award is 500€. Deadline May 31. All the information: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/geob...

And finally a Species Spotlight on the iconic but critically endangered conifer, Wollemi pine, and efforts to safeguard it from extreme fire rdcu.be/fiFeW (7/7)

Floating aquatics are those that float on the surface with their roots hanging freely in the water. This photo (Ricky Taylor CCBYNC4) has plants from 3 Divisions: Ricciocarpos, a liverwort, Azolla, a fern & Lemna, a flowering plant! The second image has the plants identified. #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

I was looking, waiting, wishing and then I found it 😍🥳 such a stunning and weird plant. Was over the moon to meet Cytinus ruber, growing on Cistus albidus (👉 petals!). #wildflowers #botany

Nice "behind the scenes" from #SurvivingEarth showing the physical set + CGI for reconstructing the Carboniferous forest (from Picture impossible's Instagram) #paleobotany

I am happy to share our new article about fossilized Anacardiaceae fruits from Quercy, in the South of France! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Paleobotany #Paléobotanique

Great review paper by Maria Gandolfo: "the fossil record provides essential and irreplaceable insights into plant evolution by documenting extinct lineages, transitional morphologies, developmental stages, and past ecosystems that cannot be inferred from extant taxa alone." #paleobotany 🌏⚒🌱🌿🔬

Nice "behind the scenes" from #SurvivingEarth showing the physical set + CGI for reconstructing the Carboniferous forest (from Picture impossible's Instagram) #paleobotany

I'm at the Rayol Mediterranean gardens this afternoon so...prepare for #botany photos. Starting with the Canary Islands dragon #trees 🐉💚 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domaine...

A pslice of Psaronius for #FossilFriday and #FernFriday Psaronius is the permineralised 'trunk' of a Carboniferous tree fern, which was made up of a mantle of thousands of rootlets. This is a thin section made to be studied under the microscope. The slide is 25mm wide. 🌏⚒🌱🌿🌴🔬🧪

Cytinus hypocistis is a Mediterranean parasitic #plant that spends most of its life inside the root tissue of its host, species of rock-roses (Cistus). But in spring it produces small stems that reach the surface and you can spot their bright yellow #flowers that are pollinated by ants 🐜 🌸 #botany

To start off Season 2, Nora asks Aly to explain the complex and confusing science behind what is and isn’t a berry! Did you know bananas are berries? Also watermelon! But strawberries and raspberries aren’t! What’s the deal? Listen to find out! leafittouspod.podbean.com/e/s2e1-whats...

In the May 2026 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social 1st architectural analysis of non-arborescent cladoxlopsid finds 2 possible growth habits for the Carboniferous Cladoxylon taeniatum ​ @thibault-durieux.bsky.social, @aldpaleo.bsky.social, CJ Harper www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience

Neptunia oleracea can grow on moist soil, but as it grows into water, it produces corky tissue on its stems that allows the stems to float. The leaves are held above the water. They are sensitive to touch, like Mimosa pudica. 📷: Gwendolyn Stansbury CCBYNCND2. #aquatic #Fabaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

The last paper from @thibault-durieux.bsky.social's PhD, discussing the architecture of Cladoxylon based on specimens from the early Carboniferous of France, is now published in @ijpsjournal.bsky.social 🌿⛏️ #paleobotany 📃 doi.org/10.1086/739852

This week, I’m posting on emergent aquatic plants. Just as marine mammals evolved from terrestrial mammals, so too are these plants descended from land-loving ancestors. They are rooted in soil, but grow above water, like this Retrophyllum minor, a gymnosperm. #aquatic #Podocarpaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Down in the not so wet yet, winter wet depression, are these tiny tiny Swamp Bunny Orchids! Eriochilus helonomos is a tiny orchid species with a preference for swampy ground and distinguished but its single flower, small leaves and petals appressed to its column!

Tongue orchids (Serapias) doing very well this year 💚 #botany #flowers #orchids

Este é um tronco petrificado de Grammatopteris, uma samambaia do tamanho de um coqueiro, que viveu no Tocantins há uns 280 milhões de anos. Este gênero fóssil também ocorre na França e na Alemanha. #fossilfriday

Happy #FernFriday #MayDay. Dryopteris affinis s.s. (Golden-scaly male fern). #Coniston #LakeDistrict

A fragment of a 170 million year old delicate-looking fern frond for #FossilFriday & #FernFriday Coniopteris (this one is C. simplex I think) from the Yorkshire Jurassic. The fossil is about 3cm long. 🌏⚒🌱🌿🦕🔬

Lots of animals but also of plants in the trailer for the upcoming #SurvivingEarth series, including a few seconds of Carboniferous forest... burning 🌲⛏️ 🔥 #paleobotany #FossilFriday 🎬 youtu.be/pHC_RSXm42Y?...

It's a long weekend here, so ahead of #FossilFriday here's a paleo-postcard! It shows the base of a large Callixylon #tree from the Late Devonian (>360 million years ago) of Oklahoma, on the campus of East Central University🌲⛏️ See reply for the back of the postcard & more details! #paleobotany

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Revisiting the enigmatic Cheirolepidiaceae: origins, phylogenetic relationships, and a new whole-plant concept doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

This particular Ophrys apulica is like an old friend - I first found it here in Gargano last year, with its fabulously complex lip pattern, and here it is again this year. #OrchidsOfTheGargano #orchids

Just 4 ancestral species (citron, pummelo, mandarin, & papeda) gave rise to the common citrus fruits, as shown in this graphic from Kalita et al. 2021. A molecular perspective on the taxonomy and journey of Citrus domestication. doi.org/10.1016/j.pp... #Citrus #Rutaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱 1/2

Some time ago I started a series about fossil sites in Spain, showing the biodiversity known from different eras. So far I have completed the Paleozoic chapter, made of this 4 pieces: - Ordovician of Cabañeros - Devonian of Teruel - Carboniferous of Puertollano - Permian of Mallorca #paleoart

Orchis purpurea (lady orchid),Platanthera bifolia (lesser butterfly-orchid), Cephalanthera longifolia (narrow-leaved helleborine) 🌸 and... something else 🦋 #botany

Electric green explosion of Sphagnum moss and shoots of bog grasses. Engines of peat formation and carbon-sequestration! Whitelye Common, Wye Valley.

Dreaming of Jurassic conifer forests this #FossilFriday 🌲🌲🌲 Brachyphyllum mamillare, a conifer twig with scale leaves from the Yorkshire Jurassic about 170 million years ago. 10 cm long. 🌏⚒🌱🌲🦕🔬

Terres d’Hérault has just been recognized as a #UNESCO Global #Geopark. The park covers ~2000 km2, with beautiful landscapes representing 540 million years of geological history - and some great paleontological sites 🌿🐾🐊⛏️ 🌋 geoparc.herault.fr #paleobotany #paleontology #geosciences #FossilFriday