November and the Holly berries are ready for Christmas... Not

Mega puffball

@uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @bucbotany.bsky.social The Sid Thomas BUC trophy 🏆 on its way to Aberdeen

And the winner of Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 ia Aberdeen!!

🌿 Join us in celebrating Plymouth’s fantastic achievement in the Botanical University Challenge, taking 2nd place in a very close national final yesterday! 🥈 You can watch the intense finals here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX_s... @bucbotany.bsky.social #BUC2025 #BotanicalUniversityChallenge #Botany

A week to @bucbotany.bsky.social and practicing for the plant based orchestra

Read the full study here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... With @bsbibotany.bsky.social, @britishecologicalsociety.org, @gpsep.bsky.social, @newphyt.bsky.social, @drmgoeswild.bsky.social, @botanyjohninaber.bsky.social

🌾🌱🌍🍄🌺🌳🧪🐝Quarterfinal Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 questions will be asked by Prof. Jennifer McElwain, 1711 Chair of Botany at Trinity College Dublin's School of Natural Sciences and Director of Trinity Botanic Gardens. @tcddublin.bsky.social

🌾🌱🌍🍄🌺🐝 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 See the quarterfinalists! Teams Taxon, Taxoff, Botanists of the Barbican, The Fun-guys, Plantastic 4, Cotyl-Edens, Oxford RADworts, Claddagh Clovers and the Tree-mendous Team!! Watch from 14:00 26 February on YouTube. Revisit earlier rounds as well.

Our eight valiant teams through to the BUC 2025 Quarter Finals Wednesday 26th February starting 2pm GMT. Watch it on the BUC YouTube Channel. Go teams, Go Botany! #BUC2025 @bucbotany.bsky.social

Good morning! A few local orchids to start the day with.

🌾🌱🌍🌿🍄🐝🌺🌳🧪 Join us next Wednesday 19 February, starting 14:00 GMT for Round 2 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025. Re-visit Round 1 on YouTube!

How do you connect disparate, disconnected student botanists? 🌱🌿🌳🧪🔬 In our new paper, we show how Botanical University Challenge - a quiz contest - is building an engaged community of plant-aware students, in the UK and beyond. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #plantscience

So excited.... I wet my plants

Pollinium (pollinia=plural): pollen grains held together and distributed as a single group. Broad-leaved Helleborine, Epipactis helleborine. Insects attracted to nectar-like substance in the bowl of lower lip. Insect brushes against glue-blob (viscidium) which is attached to the pollinia.

What a great idea!!

31 teams now, another record breaking year! Dr M #BUC2025

🌾🌱🌍🍄🌺🌳🧪 Less than a week to go for #BUC2025! The 31 - YES, THIRTY-ONE teams in Round 1 will meet Dr Chris Dixon asking multiple-choice questions. Streamed YouTube botanicaluniversitychallenge from 14:00 GMT Weds 12 Feb. Watch live or later recording! @thebotanist.bsky.social

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@sheffielduni.bsky.social welcome team number 31 in @bucbotany.bsky.social 2025

🌾🌱🌍🌿🍄🌺 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 Total of 29 teams this year. More about them as we get nearer the start 14:00 GMT Wednesday 12 February. Watch live on our YouTube channel or see the recording later.

Indeed! Updated picture of where the teams come from - now with extra University of Galway!

@bucbotany.bsky.social WONDERFUL. We have 30 teams for BUC2025!!! I cannot wait for the fun to start. Good luck to all the students

Under 2 weeks to the start of @bucbotany.bsky.social 2025. Is it too soon for a drumroll?

The questions for @bucbotany.bsky.social 2025 are written and uploaded into the software. Get your team entered asap. And let the botanical fun / bedazzlement begin.

Sea stock, has to be my plant of 2024. A new county record. A beacon of hope - long distance dispersal following habitat creation/ sea defence work.

Happy kissmass

Lichen the days getting longer. Happy returns of the plants day.

Delighted that my #PhD #research at University of Stirling @stir.ac.uk features in this uplifting @theguardian.com article! Wonderful recognition of 30+ years of restoration action for montane willows across Scotland, spotlighting Ben Lawers @n-t-s.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Abies grandis. A rather open tree but my Christmas tree of choice, just for the smell. What is yours?

A little H8 western heath for your delight

🌾🌍🌱🌿🌺🧪Some plants use wind to distribute the entire dried, above-ground plant, moving seeds considerable distances. It detaches from roots or stem and rolls away. Steppe and open arid ecosystems with plenty of space to roll. #BUC2025

Sadly lots of new reports of Quercus horizontalis today in West Wales

@bucbotany.bsky.social spending the morning checking questions for BUC 2025. But what is your favourite botanical factoid?

Have you got your copy yet?