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Celebrate #PoinsettiaDay by learning the history of the plant and how it came to be linked with Christmas in America.

On our blog, Julia Blakely explains the origin of this festive bloom: https://t.co/Xm0JgAeD1g

🖼️ in @BioDivLibrary: https://t.co/1UbPXHmKWY

🦇 Happy #BatAppreciationMonth!

We love them not just for their contribution to the Halloween aesthetic, but also for their roles as pollinators & mosquito predators.

"Common bats" from "A hand-book to the British mammalia" (1896) in @BioDivLibrary: https://t.co/URZHmSV67A

Nasturtiums are more of a summer bloom but we think their gorgeous orange hues are pretty great for fall.

From "La plante et ses applications ornementales" by Eugène Grasset. From our @cooperhewitt Library and available online: https://t.co/0PWQ8qlgab

🐙For #WorldOctopusDay, four examples by French naturalistt Alcide d'Orbigny.

They're from "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des céphalopodes acétabuifères viants, et fossiles" (1835-1848), a book of cephalpods in @BioDivLibrary : https://t.co/0KjMeLv5nw

We'll also suggest the @BioDivLibrary to get your fill of pretty pictures, absent Instagram. #NoFilter

Find tons of swoon-worthy images here: https://t.co/XvqqcsXyUe

(🦋 ➡️ https://t.co/ggUP8eOkfb)
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#HBD to naturalist and botanical artist Mary Vaux Walcott! Walcott traveled the U.S. w/ husband @smithsonian Sec. Charles Walcott, documenting plants & developed the Smithsonian printing process: https://t.co/dwyGyJ5smR

💐in @BioDivLibrary : https://t.co/XQ06Lteb3k

Gregor Mendel was born #OTD in 1822. The scientist and friar experimented with pea plants to establish many of the rules of heredity.

"Mendalism" in @BioDivLibrary offers a quick recap of the science up until 1911: https://t.co/6Q4Vq0NGPj.

🌸 Happy #FloralFriday from a few of the many (many!) flower plates in "Vilmorin's Blumengärtnerei" (1896).

This German gardening compendium was issued in 50 parts, over the course of two years with hundreds of illustrations.

In @BioDivLibrary: https://t.co/l5HXcio9Ip

#CephalopodWeek from @scifri kicks off today and it's bound to be tenta-cool 🦑

These examples of squids and octopi are from "Mollusques méditeranéens", written by Jean Baptiste Verany and published in 1851. Find it in @BioDivLibrary : https://t.co/dsgPJpzLob

💐A bouquet from "Les roses : histoire, culture, description" (1873), in honor of #NationalRoseMonth.

Written by Hippolyte Jamain and Eugène Forney, it was illustrated with 60 gorgeous chromolithographs. Find it in @BioDivLibrary : https://t.co/jVkUioWS0i