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Another week, another #FantasticFloraFriday! Today we are featuring a fruit that has been popular for birds and people alike.

For more beautiful berries, visit https://t.co/Pq3QFlUBmm.

Euphorbia myrsinites (Donkey-tail spurge). By Elaine Searle

Our most recent cohort of Botanical Artists in Residence created some beautiful works for our Florilegium!

Erythronium americanum (Trout lily or Dog tooth violet) with its pollinator, Andrena erythronii (Trout lily bee). By Irina Neacșu.

Since March is #WomenHistoryMonth, we're starting it off by sharing these images from 17th-century artist and entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian’s "Caterpillar Book" (1679). Our library holds both color and black-and-white editions of the work. 🐛

Looking for a romantic flower for your Valentine’s Day bouquet? Try the fragrant tuberose! This popular perfume flower symbolized “dangerous pleasures” in the Victorian language of flowers. Unmarried women were discouraged from sniffing it after nightfall during that era!

While British poet and artist Edward Lear is best known for his nonsense poem, “The Owl and the Pussycat,” he also created incredible illustrations of birds - including these from John Gould’s The Birds of Europe (1832-37).

Happy birthday to botanist William Curtis, born #onthisday in 1746!
Curtis was the founder of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, the world’s longest running, continuously published botanical journal. Learn more about him in our blogpost from 2021: https://t.co/ndyZ8ZOTpY.

We are very pleased to announce the two talented artists selected for our 2022 Botanical Artists in Residence program! Elaine Searle and Irina Neacsu will join us at the foundation this spring. Apps for our 2023 program will open soon 👇

This illustration from Mark Catesby's The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands (1771) shows a more common fox squirrel color (and a lovely yellow lady slipper):

Did you know that saffron is harvested from a fall-blooming crocus, like this one growing at our farm? The pricey spice comes from those lovely red threads. To get a full pound of saffron threads, you would need to harvest from around 70,000 flowers!