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Heliconias are not only visually alluring, with their sculptural bracts and stunning colors, but have also expanded our understanding of evolution.

Register for botanist John Kress's talk on and this Friday at 3 pm EDT: https://t.co/DQS3qLvXa7

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2021-10-20

Love Nirupa Rao's art in

Pick up HIDDEN KINGDOM, Rao's book of rhyme and illustrations of fantastical plants of the Western Ghats, or PILLARS OF LIFE, an illustrated book of 30 native trees of the same region, from our Museum Shop → https://t.co/y03xQuc7Ns

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2021-10-16

Next Friday, October 22 at 3 pm EDT, hear from botanist W. John Kress on the interaction of and and what field observations and controlled experiments by botanists and ecologists have taught us about heliconias → https://t.co/tVeid39KGR

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2021-10-15

in 1226, St. Francis of Assisi passed away. Did you know that just years after his death, Henry of Avranches composed a verse poem of Francis’s life?

Check it out in SAINTS’ LIVES VOL. 1, from : https://t.co/0nd2OQzcb2

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2021-10-04

A new collection on , compiled by summer intern John Schaefer, highlights the wealth of digitized scientific literature and surrounding fascinating carnivorous plants: https://t.co/V2cccgYgtd

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2021-10-02

We get our peaches out in...our

The scientific name, Prunus persica, likely refers to an early European belief that peaches were native to Persia, though genetic studies now suggest peaches originated in China.



🎨: https://t.co/sPTCLcSohc

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2021-08-07

He is also curating a complementary collection with on carnivorous plants and hopes to introduce more folks to the fascinating cultural history of these killer vegetables!

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2021-07-30

The manuscript of the epic Beowulf includes 4 other texts, including a fanciful account of Alexander the Great (thought to be born in India.

Read the manuscript texts & the epic in THE BEOWULF MANUSCRIPT from via : https://t.co/bC2qHdZznf

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2021-07-21

D.C.'s beloved are the result of a gift of Yoshino cherry trees from Japan in 1912. In Japan, terms such as "kaika" (first bloom) and "mankai" (full bloom) describe the highly anticipated emergence of blossoms.

🎨: From さくら大観, https://t.co/l8qUmDf8ON

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2021-05-27

Happy Introduced to England in the 1650s, tea sales of the British East India Company at the end of the — at 20m lbs. — were 400 times as much as at the beginning of the century.

From our BOTANY OF EMPIRE exhibit: https://t.co/368tP9v1Jz

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2021-05-22