@plantarum@ottawa.place
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1d ago
Tyler Smith
@plantarum@ottawa.place
I'm a botanist and conservation biologist in Ottawa. My work focuses on crop wild relatives and wild-harvested species, particularly berries; and invasive plants. I am trained as a plant taxonomist and community ecologist. All opinions expressed are my own, and do not reflect those any of my employer(s) past, present or future. My interests include photography, woodworking, kayaking, swimming, hiking and natural history.
ottawa.place
The tiny blooms of Diapensia laponica are a special treat for fieldwork in #Labrador. The stems are only 1-3cm tall. The little flowers look robust, but I've learned they only last a few days in the short northern summer.
#botany #photography #Makkovik
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@BathNature@ecoevo.social
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Jun 11, 2026
Bath Nature
@BathNature@ecoevo.social
Naturalist, landscape historian & photographer from #Bath #Somerset #UK. Posts about local wildlife, especially invertebrates, plants & birds, as well as local ancient monuments. I frequently post updates about various tame European Robins in my neighbourhood. #Wildlife #Entomology #Arachnology #Nature #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Birds #Archaeology (profile picture is a European Robin, header is a view of Solsbury Hill, an Iron Age hillfort near Bath)
ecoevo.social
Lizard Orchid (Himantoglossum hircinum) at Berrow, Somerset. This species is on the edge of its range here in Britain, but appears to be expanding its range, potentially in response to climate change. This one was growing on a sand dune near a golf course and was around 30-40cm high, but they sometimes also grow on road verges, and can reach heights of 90cm.
#Nature #Wildlife #Orchid #Wildflower #Flower #WildflowerHour #Plant #Botany #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography
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@va2lam@mastodon.nz
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Jun 06, 2026
Vegetable sheep isn't a sheep, it's a plant. Here are more wild plants. #botany
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@boas_pucker@mastodon.social
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May 02, 2026
Boas Pucker
@boas_pucker@mastodon.social
Prof. at Uni Bonn | Plant Biotechnology & Bioinformatics (@PuckerLab) | 🌱#plant 🧬#genomics #evolution #Python #DataScience | my views | https://www.pbb.uni-bonn.de
mastodon.social
🌸 Do you enjoy cherry blossoms?
We are looking for a future group member to explore the genetic mechanisms behind coloration in cherry flowers and fruits.
The project focuses on tissue-specific gene expression and its role in ornamental plants and crops.
🔗 Details: https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/teaching#cherry
#PlantScience #Genetics #Botany #AcademicJobs #Research
@PuckerLab@genomic.social
@samnm@mstdn.science
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@petersketch@toot.wales
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Apr 20, 2026
Peter Sketch
@petersketch@toot.wales
#Dragonfly obsessed environmental consultant. Welsh exile in Swindon. Mainly #wildlife and #botany with a sideline in unsuccessful sports teams and jokes about politics. #CharltonAthletic #LondonWelsh #CambridgeCity #GlamorganCricket #UKLabour
toot.wales
This is simultaneously something I've seen many many times (in gardens) and never in my life (in the wild). It appears to be a perfectly normal Broad Bean, except it's not in an allotment or anywhere near one - it was by the pitch at Henley rugby ground. I wonder how it got there. #WildflowerHour #Oxfordshire #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography
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@3DBill@mstdn.ca
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Apr 08, 2026
ThreeDollarBill
@3DBill@mstdn.ca
Photographer (botanicals, landscapes, people), surface design, gardener. Living in Vancouver, BC, Canada (Coast Salish terr). I mostly avoid posting or reading about politics on social media. header: newly germinated Salvia patens 'Blue Angel', spring 2025 avatar: me against a white backdrop with a red maple leaf splodged on
mstdn.ca
#Laeliocattleya 'Coastal Sunrise' (J Tatum)
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany #orchid
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@brainsmatter__dup_34864@mastodonapp.uk
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Mar 01, 2026
Brains Matter
@brainsmatter__dup_34864@mastodonapp.uk
Host of the Brains Matter podcast - the show on science, curiosities, and general knowledge. Runner-up Best Oz Sci Microblogger 2010, Did a TEDx once. Please subscribe to me at https://youtube.com/@brainsmatterpodcast?sub_confirmation=1 or follow the audio podcast at http://www.brainsmatter.com
mastodonapp.uk
From high-tech greenhouses to fruit netting: how protected cropping can shield crops from climate extremes https://theconversation.com/from-high-tech-greenhouses-to-fruit-netting-how-protected-cropping-can-shield-crops-from-climate-extremes-272162#biology #botany #science #STEM
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@janettespeyer@flipboard.social
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Mar 01, 2026
JanetteSpeyer
@janettespeyer@flipboard.social
Partner at HotIceMedia. Editor at Food Culture Bites. #Flipboard 
#DigitalArtist. Aspiring #Photographer. #Marketer #Artist #blogger #Surffeeds #Traveler, #GraphicDesigner
flipboard.social
Food shocker for today!
Strawberries aren’t true berries. Bananas are!
A true berry develops from one flower with one ovary and usually has seeds inside.
• Bananas grow from a single flower with one ovary.
• Strawberries don’t, each seed is on the outside and is its own tiny fruit.
#botany #SurfFeeds #foodstories #fruit #FoodTrivia
#foodculture
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@janettespeyer@flipboard.social
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Mar 01, 2026
JanetteSpeyer
@janettespeyer@flipboard.social
Partner at HotIceMedia. Editor at Food Culture Bites. #Flipboard #DigitalArtist. Aspiring #Photographer. #Marketer #Artist #blogger #Surffeeds #Traveler, #GraphicDesigner
flipboard.social
Food shocker for today!
Strawberries aren’t true berries. Bananas are! #FoodTrivia
Why?
A true berry develops from one flower with one ovary and usually has seeds inside.
• Bananas grow from a single flower with one ovary.
• Strawberries don’t, each seed is on the outside and is its own tiny fruit, making strawberries an aggregate fruit.
Botanically speaking… bananas win the berry title! Botanists, please way in! #botany #foodculture #foodstories #fruit
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@silverdory@aus.social
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Feb 22, 2026
Silver Dory
@silverdory@aus.social
Glen Ryan - he/him - wild orchids, Australian flora, landscape art, gardening, head of Parks & Rec at the independent republic of Corunna, NSW. Native plant management + consultancy at Tilba Nursery, Tilba Tilba. NSW. Commercial imaging + fine-art prints at Silver Dory Productions. Currently living and working on the unceded lands of the Dyiringanj people.
aus.social
Purple hyacinth orchid (Dipodium punctatum) at Mystery Bay, NSW. Only one plant out and only just starting to flower in late February near the ocean. I usually see this species flowering nearby from late November - this is probably the latest flowering I have seen (although it can apparently flower into March at some locations).
#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #Dipodium
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@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
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Feb 15, 2026
JdeBP
@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
This is a general, but non-politics, account covering everything from computer programming to supermarket meal deals; any politics will be taken up by @JdeBP. For #senryu and #SlowLife tasks, see @JdeBP. For the command-line and system tools (including #nosh and #djbwares), specifically, see @JdeBP.
mastodonapp.uk
@acb@mastodon.social
At this point, I recommend a short story by #RoaldDahl titled "The Sound Machine". It's collected in More Tales Of The Unexpected, amongst other places.
The story was published in 1949. Botanical science finally caught up with fiction in 2023.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.03.009
@cstross@wandering.shop @jmax@mastodon.social
#biology #botany
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@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
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Feb 14, 2026
JdeBP
@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
This is a general, but non-politics, account covering everything from computer programming to supermarket meal deals; any politics will be taken up by @JdeBP. For #senryu and #SlowLife tasks, see @JdeBP. For the command-line and system tools (including #nosh and #djbwares), specifically, see @JdeBP.
mastodonapp.uk
@jmax@mastodon.social
The question is: Are they actually dead at that point? What constitutes death for a plant? It's not lack of brain activity.
Warning: Go too far down this road and you realize that the #potatoes that will happily begin growing shoots if you leave them in the sack for too long are alive and screaming when you drop them into boiling water.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190687724.003.0010
After all, part of the point of #cooking is to kill otherwise still-alive organisms before eating.
@cstross@wandering.shop
#ValentinesDay #biology #botany
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@3DBill@mstdn.ca
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Feb 09, 2026
ThreeDollarBill
@3DBill@mstdn.ca
Photographer (botanicals, landscapes, people), surface design, gardener. Living in Vancouver, BC, Canada (Coast Salish terr). I mostly avoid posting or reading about politics on social media. header: newly germinated Salvia patens 'Blue Angel', spring 2025 avatar: me against a white backdrop with a red maple leaf splodged on
mstdn.ca
#Tulipa cretica 'Hilde' (selection of the species ca 1850).
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
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@GrrlScientist@mstdn.science
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Jan 31, 2026
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 
@GrrlScientist@mstdn.science
PhD scientist in evolutionary ecology & ornithology SciComm @Forbes Formerly SciComm @Guardian, Evolution Institute, Bird Note Radio, ScienceBlogs Twitter legacy Vegan.
mstdn.science
#art #plants #botany #science #books #BookReview https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/chasing-plants-journeys-with-a-botanist-622
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@3DBill@mstdn.ca
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Jan 31, 2026
ThreeDollarBill
@3DBill@mstdn.ca
Photographer (botanicals, landscapes, people), surface design, gardener. Living in Vancouver, BC, Canada (Coast Salish terr). I mostly avoid posting or reading about politics on social media. header: newly germinated Salvia patens 'Blue Angel', spring 2025 avatar: me against a white backdrop with a red maple leaf splodged on
mstdn.ca
#Rhododendron sulfureum
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany
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@ClimateJenny@biodiversity.social
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Jan 14, 2026
Climate Jenny 2.1
@ClimateJenny@biodiversity.social
I wander around looking at native plants. Botanical surveyor, Master Naturalist™️, habitat gardener, etc. b. 318 ppm CO2. Ecoregion 65m Rolling Coastal Plain. She/her. "I suspect that the real moral thinkers end up, wherever they may start, in botany." -- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek #ClimateDiary #Botany #NativePlants #Coffee #Covid #VisibleMending #BikeTooter #Degrowth #Bach #solarpunk #sedges #ham
biodiversity.social
In a world that astonishes every day, today I am astonished to learn that an #ICE guy told the neighbors he was a botanist.
#botany #NativePlants
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@silverdory@aus.social
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Nov 23, 2025
Silver Dory
@silverdory@aus.social
Glen Ryan - he/him - wild orchids, Australian flora, landscape art, gardening, head of Parks & Rec at the independent republic of Corunna, NSW. Native plant management + consultancy at Tilba Nursery, Tilba Tilba. NSW. Commercial imaging + fine-art prints at Silver Dory Productions. Currently living and working on the unceded lands of the Dyiringanj people.
aus.social
Sun orchid (Thelymitra) variations growing close together on the edge of Croajingolong National Park, VIC.
Thelymitra ixioides (spotted sun orchid) are common nearby but in open grassland some smaller-flowering forms are maybe closer to the very similar Thelymitra juncifolia (rush-leaf sun orchid).
#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #EastGippsland #SunOrchids #Thelymitra
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