New publication: 30 by 30 for plant diversity: How can we protect more of nature?
#30by30
Published by Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐
Based on my PhD with King's Geography & NHM Botany
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Tomorrow is #InternationalPlantAppreciation Day! 🌿Plant are essential members of ecosystems, food sources, used to fight diseases and can improve mental health and well being. Learn about NHM Botany collections and research 👇
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Rather late, but, had a fascinating time at the NHM Botany Taxonomic Principles and Tools in Botanical Research course, specialising in Bryophytes, last month Natural History Museum.
A fantastic insight behind the scenes with a sunny field trip to Thursley Common, what's not to enjoy?

An excellent day’s herbarium collecting with Sarah Lambert and South Lincs Flora Group at Morkery Wood today. 5 species collected including wood spurge 📷and moschatel for Love Lincs Plants Sir Joseph Banks and NHM Botany

A new story from our digitisers looking at the past imaging of our collection stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/38602 #digitisation #herbarium #towards3million

Iridescent algae: blue structural colour protects seaweed from harmful light wavelengths and favours red and green light harvesting - Juliet Brodie Juliet_Brodie Margot Minju Arnould-Pétré & al #phycologyfriday #MuseumResearch NHM Botany doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2…

Paper reuse by Bobart in the Plukenet herbarium (HS95, f. 42 NHM Botany) with a slice of William Jane's sermon from 1691 Richard Coulton Fragmentarium

Here is a plant specimen in the herbarium of Robert Uvedale (1642-1722); its label is in the hand of Charles Du Bois (1658-1740), cashier-general of the East India Company. But what scrap paper did he use to write it on? NHM Botany Richard Coulton Fragmentarium Madeline White

Great end to the week! Fun collaboration using herbarium #cyanobacteria specimens for DNA sequencing and microscopy... Unlocking our collections! NHM Botany Natural History Museum Science

Ingrid Jüttner of Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales, David Williams & Bart Van de Vijver working on the William Smith collection Natural History Museum for the Diatom Flora of Britain and Ireland project, funded by the British Phycological Society The British Phycological Society
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Check out this story of a rare plant specimen collection reaching Virginia Tech Herbarium from NHM Botany (@dr_norb), dating back to the 1840s. Amazing history! #botany

(Dr. Jordan Metzgar Jordan Metzgar serves as Book Editor for our journal, JTBS)

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What a massive #poppy #flower on a new specimen at NHM Botany 😳 This #Papaver orientale is huge with 16 cm/7' in diameter.
#CuratorLife #HerbariumLife

Today is Dydd Gŵyl Dewi, St David's day, and so cenhinen Bedr - a daffodil with origins in Tenby in Wales from the NHM Botany collection

On a recent visit to ⁦Natural History Museum⁩ ⁦NHM Botany⁩ #SnowdonLily #EdwardLhuyd for my work with ⁦Plantlife Cymru⁩ ⁦Natur am Byth!⁩ instagram.com/p/C3keZFVtrPI/…

A wonderful day looking at Spikerush (Eleocharis) in the British and Irish herbarium NHM Botany
I confess to doing a little dance at one point as my search gave me E. palustris subsp. palustris.
I need to use up my AL so a couple of days here ❤️
BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024 Twenty-eight (28!) teams from across British Isles, UK & Ireland. From Universities & other institutions. All loving #plants ! Gatsby Plant Science Education Programme @nhm_botany NBG Ireland The Linnean Society of London BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland All_Horts BBSBryology Cardiff Curator

The genes that came in from the cold - Anne & al. investigate the DNA of strange cyanobacteria from the saline water of Lake Vanda in the Antarctic doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.…

Extinction risks for plants - how we can improve data to support biodiversity conservation. NHM Botany research from Neil Brummitt, Qianyuan Cui, Peiwei Bai, Xinyu Liu, Ben Scott, Adriana De Palma Adriana De Palma & Ana Claudia Araujo doi.org/10.1080/147720…

Natural History Museum Science Sarah Woodfin NHM Botany We don't know a lot about Mr George but he made a very large and significant collection of seaweeds from places he visited on holidays. I like to think of him floating out this enormous seaweed in the lodgings bath tub and getting in trouble with the landlady! If only we knew!

Really funky #seed sections of #Spondias pinnata ('hog plum') -an edible plant from S & SE Asia in the NHM Botany collections.
#HerbariumLife #CuratorLife