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German mycologist Julius Schäffer (1882-1944) is said to be the only modern mycologist to die from consuming poisonous mushrooms. Check out Schäffer’s Russula illustrations on our Digitised Collections platform https://t.co/I42as1fPyn #FungiFriday

It's #FishFriday and #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInSTEM so here are some beautiful illustrations of #Hawaiian #fish (& 3 inverts) by E. Getrude Norrie (fl.1900s). Based in California, she corresponded with @NHM_London's E. R. Lankester https://t.co/PedMPvA0ZC #PublicDomain

The helmet #orchid, Corybas fimbriatus, is a small plant that grows on the forest floor. This image was painted by Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826), artist on Matthew Flinders' #Investigator voyage which circumnavigated #Australia 1801-1803 #ExtraordinaryOrchids

With this Serapias cordigera Hilda Margaret Godfery (1871-1930) depicts the bees that visit the flowers. @SandyKnapp writes ‘Both male and female bees visit these flowers and shelter in the cavity provided by the arched sepals – no other reward is offered’ #ExtraordinaryOrchids

Life isn't black and white, but back in the time of Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605) this is how many saw the natural world in print. View his ornithological 3 volume set via @BioDivLibrary #Feathursday #ThrowbackThursday https://t.co/VGnN9tOgbx

This #Masdevallia wageneriana was published in The Genus Masdevallia (1891-1896). The plates and text were by Florence H Woolward (1854-1936) who used the plants growing in the extensive #orchid collections of the Marquess of Lothian at Newbattle Abbey #ExtraordinaryOrchids

The #orchids that you commonly see for sale in supermarkets in the UK are unnamed #hybrids of #Phalaenopsis, or moth orchids. They can flower at any time of the year. This image is from James Bateman's A Second Century of Orchidaceous Plants (1867) #ExtraordinaryOrchids

Where would our gardens be if it wasn't for these fantastic creatures?! Rounding off #NationalGardeningWeek with James Barbut's (d.1791) extraordinary illustrations of English insects in his seminal work Genera Insectorum (1781) available on @BioDivLibrary https://t.co/3qSLZVsMXo

This Bolbophyllum is from W J Hooker's A Century of Orchidaceous Plants (1849). In #ExtraordinaryOrchids, @SandyKnapp writes how the dark delicate hairs are thought to lure the dipteran pollinators of these tiny flowers by imitating a fly mating swarm #flyfriday #RareBooks

Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627-1702) named Flos susannae (now Pecteilis gigantea) after his wife, Suzanna, who assisted his botanical work after he lost his sight. This image is from William Jackson Hooker's (1785-1865) A Century of Orchidaceous Plants (1849) #ExtraordinaryOrchids