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A blog by @Missvolare - we met at the Press Morning for #Kew's Orchid Festival, and Sandra asked me to try to identify the orchids in some photos from the early 1900s. With a bit of help from Mark Chase, we got names for most of them! https://t.co/S92vEUQrbQ
@LeifBersweden @orchidtimelapse @LeifBersweden - How many #landmarks would you need to analyse these lips (a few more than Orchis)? 🤔#morphometrics
#Coelogyne (Gynoglottis) cymbidioides eventually flowered @kewgardens in 2020 after being grown from seed sown in the Micropropagation Unit in 1988! Art: Masumi Yamanaka. #Orchidaceae
#IllustratedBooks: Two #rivers in one book - the Nene & the Ouse (Down the river by #HEBates, #woodcuts Agnes Miller Parker). 1932. With fulsome praise from #EricGill
@THEGenShow2020 My great grandparents Joseph Wilson Eamonson and Henrietta (Eastwood) Eamonson lived in Leeds, but enjoyed this trip to Blackpool
A book of fabulous beasts (1939, stories retold by AM Smyth, illustrations by D Fitch). #Chameleons, barnacle #geese, #gorgons , #dragons and more. #bookillustrationoftheday #illustratedbooks
#Palms feature strongly in the #woodcuts in “Over the reefs” by Robert #Gibbings (1948) 🌴🌴. #Arecaceae #BookIllustrationOfTheDay
Another of my purchases from 2nd hand bookshops: Kew Gardens (1908) by AR Hope Moncrieff, illustrations by T Mower Martin. Publ. by A & C Black. Cover, #PalmHouse and view of #Thames. #secondhandbooks #bookshops #KewGardens 1/.
@Mark_A_Eaton @ukorchids @BSBIbotany @wildflower_hour Lovely photo! We use this species as the logo for the 7th International #Orchid Conservation Congress @KewScience @kewgardens (28 May-1 June). #IOCCVII #ladysslipperorchid #Cypripedium calceolus
#IOCCVII (7th International #Orchid #Conservation Congress - has ended 😥. Thank you all for great talks/posters. Thank you to my local team - I couldn't have done it without you! A huge thank you to Kingsley Dixon for taking over the closing ceremony when I lost my voice 😶!