Post from Herbarium World on Joseph de Jussieu's plants from South America: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/a...

Catoscopium nigritum from "Barrie Sands" in south Wales collected by Edward Morell Holmes probably in the 1890s. In the moss collection of Henry Guermonprez at @portsmouthnh.bsky.social @bbsbryology.bsky.social #bryophytes

A beautiful watercolour of an Amanita by Louis C. C. Krieger. The details are really astonishing. From University of Michigan Herbarium, Krieger's Watercolors of Fungi #FungiFriends #FungiFriday quod.lib.umich.edu/f/fuwatic

Post from Herbarium World on historical herbaria and specifically the Chinese plants collected by Pierre d'Incarville herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/a...

Madeleine Françoise Basseporte (1701–1780) was a French painter. From 1741 until her death, she served as the Royal Painter for the King's Garden and Cabinet (now the Jardin des Plantes), an unprecedented appointment for a woman artist at the time. #WomensArt

Post from Herbarium World on the In Search of Thoreau's Flowers exhibit at the Gregg Museum of Art and Design in Raleigh with works by Leah Sobsey and Robin Vuchnich herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/b...

Through the power of digitisation, this work can be carried out at an unprecedented level. Over 7 million of Kew's plant and fungal specimens have now stepped out of the archives and into the hands of the world 🌿 Dive into our datal, and tell us what you find! www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

This is definitely something to think about @nataliajagielska.bsky.social

New blog on doing #botanicalillustrations of Scottish urban #wildflowers for an #identificationguide: lizzieharper.co.uk/2025/12/guid... I am passionate about the beauty, diversity, and resilience of "weeds", so this was a dream job. Most of the species were growing within half a mile of my home!

Post from Herbarium World about the Plants on Paper Exhibit at the Yale Haas Family Arts Library: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/b...

iNaturalist projects represent a valuable resource for aggregating plant observations and engaging society: A case study of the Flora of Mongolia project Shukherdorj Baasanmunkh, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PlantScience #LatestIssue @inaturalist.bsky.social

You've worked hard this year, and thought hard!

The iris rhizome is the source of orris root, which is cultivated and aged for years before use in perfumery. The sweet, earthy, woody quality comes from triterpenoid breakdown into irones, which are close in structure and aroma to violet ionones, and responsible for the characteristic scent.

Citrus aurantium flower yields neroli oil by steam distillation, which has delicate tones marked by a sharp slightly terpenic top note that is pleasantly bitter, floral, fresh, citrusy, and herbal. The fruit rind is expressed, yielding oils that are classically citrus. Pix: @mobotgarden Herbarium

From studying Hans Sloane to William Henry Fox Talbot, @trichocolea.bsky.social, you are a multi-faceted man.

Post from Herbarium World on botany and sculpture at the Storm King Art Center herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/m...

A #botany achievement: I determined my first #Palicourea #Rubiaceae specimen to species- P. atlantica!! But my collaborator and coffee family mentor Charlotte Taylor’s name still made it to the label, since she is an author of the species. May not seem like much, but feels like a big deal to me! 🤓

Ever seen fungal illustrations? 🍄 Our Fungarium Sequencing Project Team is thrilled to show some of the original illustrations that were created when the species were first described as new to science. In some cases, this is the only visual reference material of the original fungus that we have! 🧵👇

Good thread about scientific illustrations, and the current oversimplification in images. When you look in the microscope, the reality you see rarely matches the drawn textbook images.

Post from Herbarium World on Nature Prints and pressed plant photographs including the work of the Indian artist Mridula Vichitra herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/h...

What #EYABeauty lies on the inside of this unassuming folder? We're showing off Elsie Wakefield's fungi illustrations today 🍄 Wakefield became Head of Mycology at Kew Gardens in 1915 and our Archives hold her personal papers collection, which includes letters, illustrations and photographs. #KewLA

Thanks @strasser.bsky.social for this post. We should all do this after we use BHL images, then the work of the wonderful Biodiversity Heritiage Library would get around. @biodivlibrary.bsky.social

@rdmpage.bsky.social and @nicolekearney.bsky.social both have a point! Aesthetics is important in scientific images, but so is information. Thanks to both of them for all their work. It is invaluable.

Linking to images and #AI-based identification tools—The only way for #Flora projects to survive A #ThomasReview by Susanne S. Renner 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PlantScience 🧵1/4

‘Mosses and wandering lichens’, as Ruskin puts it in ‘The Poetry of Architecture’ (1837), ‘though beautiful, constitute a kind of beauty from which the ideas of age and decay are inseparable’. This whole essay. I had no idea Victorians thought about lichen. courtauld.ac.uk/research/res...

These illustrations aren't just "pretty," they are works of science as well as art. Thanks for making such contributions to both spheres more available.

An engraved plate from my 1827 copy of Elements of Botany by Benjamin Smith Barton, one of the first professors of natural history in the U.S. & who built the largest collection of botanical specimens in the country. This was considered the first U.S. botany textbook. 🌱 🐡 📚💙

An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment. www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...

Post from Herbarium World on Hilma af Klint's botany: herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/h...

Just read this and it's a great discussion of collaborations outside of the botanical community.

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.