Join us in The Hague on 3 December for my book presentation! 🌷🌻🌵 Look forward to sharing some findings, an exciting panel on practical knowledge with amazing colleagues, and a pop-up show on reconstructions/creative works from the project. Register: tickets.kb.nl/nl-NL/Show/D... See you there! 🌺

Post from Herbarium World on the art of Sam van Aken herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/a...

This is a wonderful post on old specimens and new.

Some mushrooms we identified at the Society of Mycology of Neuchâtel and around (www.smne.ch). ❓how to memorise them all? 🎨 My manner is to paint them. It takes up a lot of time, but once I see them again, I know who they are! 🍄🐡 #Sciart #fungifriends #mushrooms #illustrations #watercolor

Visited Port Sunlight yesterday - the original source of much of my academic funding from @leverhulme.ac.uk It was so impressive to see the workers' houses, hear about all the good stuff the Levers did and to visit the Lady Lever Art Gallery - on the day that Musk got $1 trillion....

Post from Herbarium World on the plant-related art of James Prosek: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/a...

The natural history of the book. Scarlet pimpernel in a copy of William Salmon’s ‘Botanologia: the English herbal’ (London, 1710) (along with several other pressed botanical specimens). CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social

#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.

Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿 Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany. www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...

Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social is now available in the new warehouse - www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr... The ebook is on sale for US $42.74

What a wonderful collaboration between art and science @uarkherbarium.bsky.social.

Labels for medicine bottles? Found in a copy of William Salmon’s ‘Botanologia: the English herbal’ (London, 1710) (along with several pressed botanical specimens). CCA.46.31 @theUL.bsky.social, formerly at the Anatomy School, Cambridge, part of the Suffolk General Hospital collection.

One of our Fellows has co-curated a fascinating exibition of Indian botanical art. Henry Noltie & Sita Reddy chose 52 drawings by Indian artists, and where possible identified the artists responsible. 'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026. Images © RBG Kew.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library doesn't just provide access to historic literature. There are publications on BHL from 1469 to 2025. The Canadian Field-Naturalist is one of many in-copyright publications we've made freely accessible online (with permission from the rights holders of course). 🧪 ©️ 📖

Post from Herbarium World on the Fernery at Benmore Botanic Garden: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/d...

Coming up Tues Oct 28, online - Botanical Exchanges: The Art of Emily Cole and Isabel Charlotte “Downie” Church A virtual conversation with Amanda Malmstrom and Allegra Davis Register at olana.org/program-even... #hernaturalhistory #womenartists #artherstory

At the turn of the 20th century, researchers shared specimens, books & discoveries through letters that crossed borders. Our exhibition with @tettris.eu explores the the scientific connection between Austria and Italy through the correspondence of botanist Eduard Hackel 🌿 bit.ly/4nSpwFJ

Post from Herbarium World on the wood collection at the University of California Berkeley thanksto information from Shirley Watts and Mitchell Maher: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/d... #wood

It's essential that everyone who uses BHL appreciate it and SUPPORT it--with some level of support that's feasible for them.

This article captures the critical need for deliberate, coordinated support of scientific databases such as #BHL @biodivlibrary.bsky.social. Scientific information must be recognized as core infrastructure, not a peripheral project. 🧪 Article: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We have several exciting events lined up for the 150th anniversary of the UARK herbarium! Check out all the events with this link: biology.uark.edu/herbarium/ev...

🌿We're celebrating 200 years since John Stevens Henslow became Professor of Botany at Cambridge. He oversaw the relocation of the Botanic Garden to its current 40-acre site & was a mentor to Charles Darwin, inspiring his ideas on plant variation. Learn more about his legacy: tinyurl.com/4stzwhz9

It's #WorldAlgaeDay! Japanese algologist Kintaro Okamura (1867-1935) provided taxonomies & descriptions in English & Japanese for his monumental work "Nihon sorui zufu" / "Icones of Japanese Algae" (1907-1942). Find it in #BHLib via #MBLWHOILibrary www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... 🧪

Post from Herbarium World on Smelling the Bouquet, an exhibit at the Missouri Botanical Gardens Sachs Museum herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/d... @mobotmuseum.bsky.social

Someday I'd like to attend one of these delicious events! @utkherbarium.bsky.social‬

As autumn sets in, take a look at flowers that bloom forever 🌸🍂 In this new illustrated #openaccess book @jessiewhchen.bsky.social approaches 17th-c. florilegia as material objects reflecting the diverse plant knowledge of gardeners, compilers & image-makers! brill.com/display/titl... #EarlyModern

Another week, another beautiful item spotted in our Reading Room at Kew! These incredible drawings of 'submersed algae' are from Sir William Hooker's collection (safely stored within our Archives). Check out the incredible detail in each line 👇 #KewLA

"(...) biology, which, like philosophy, IS its own history; and a study of the course, which biological science has taken, confirms the idea that repeated scrutiny of its embryonic phases is essential to its progress." Agnes Arber in her 1950 book "The Natural Philosophy of Plant Form". 🌱

This is a wonderful presentation by two leaders in the field of the plant humanities.

Post from Herbarium World on biogeography: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/d... @biogeography

Post from Herbarium World on reflectance spectroscopy: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/d...

www.thinkingwithmoss.net is a great website. Thanks to everyone involved, especially Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social.

That Australian woman who was sentenced for putting death-cap mushrooms in her family's beef Wellington? Her conviction was helped by the scientific evidence in the world's herbaria -- which themselves are being closed (rapidly and worryingly) around the world. therevelator.org/endangered-h...

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

Congratulations on writing such an insightful book.

Look at this beauty, freshly returned from conservation! “Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisis de la flore et de la pomone de l'Ile de Java” (1863) by Berthe van Nooten is one of my favourite items in the @linneansociety.bsky.social library, with firework fruits and flowers on every page.

We're excited to announce this year's dates for our #Specimens & Scones events! The first date is Wednesday, October 1st, and the second is Thursday, November 13th, from 3 to 5 p.m. Please join us to learn what our #Herbarium offers while enjoying coffee, tea, and delicious scones! See you there!

So very pleased and proud to announce that our paper "Revealing hidden figures within natural history collections by empowering students with data sleuthing skills" has been published! #Wikidata #Bionomia #HiddenFigures acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Our team recently came across these beautiful drawings of wild flowers in Libya. They were made by Jocelyn Russell in 1940s. Her Mechanised Transport Corps was stationed in North Africa during WWII and it was during this time that she made illustrations of the plants she saw. #KewLA #Wildflowers

Post from Herbarium World on my visits with artists Laurence Hill and Tracey Bush in England herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/l... @botanical-icones.bsky.social

It's a great talk, and definitely worth reading. @andrewlhipp.bsky.social

Specimens from Phantom Flowers, one of two books published in 1864 on the art of producing skeleton leaves. More in our latest post from @eayers0: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/phantom-flowers

Post from Herbarium World on my visit to the amazing South London Botanical Institute with thanks to the director, Elyssa Livergant herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/t...

Finally finished extracting and plotting all the locations in Jamaica that Hans Sloane (1660-1753) mentioned in his work, the Voyage to the Islands. Unsurprisingly, they are mostly in the south-central part of the island, but also show his trip north @nhm-london.bsky.social @rxcoulton.bsky.social

The single outlier on the south-west coast Sloane found "very plentifully floating along the Coast of the Island [Jamaica] by Pedro Point", which he presumably reached by boat. Here's his specimen (currently called Syringodium filiforme, Manatee grass), and distribution from GBIF

Post from Herbarium World: exploring exsiccatae at Kew Library, thanks to Anne Griffin herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/l... @rbgkew.bsky.social

In today's Poetry Clinic, I address the question of how to carry forest's quiet with us. For me, the best approach is writing: note-taking while I am in the forest quiets my mind, writing up the notes afterwards seals the memories. w/ a quote from Edwin Way Teale. poetryclinic.org/how-do-i-car...

Post from Herbarium World on British gardening herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/l... #gardens

Visiting #SmellingTheBouquet virtually! Thanks to the Digital Interpretation team @mobotgarden.bsky.social, we can offer a digital experience to visit @mobotmuseum.bsky.social and check out the exhibition (sorry, no scents though!). Visit the link in the linktree or here kuula.co/share/h1FhB/...

Post from Herbarium World on my visit to @linneansociety.bsky.social to see a wonderful collection of orchid illustrations herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/l... #orchids #herbarium