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Happy Japanese Holly (Cyrtomium falcatum). from Edward Step, Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Vol. 4 (1897). View more in via : https://t.co/DS8eJU7sTj --

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2019-06-15

The weather in Edinburgh is pretty honking today so adding some colour to a very grey day with some Virginia Snakeroot from Medical (1830s)

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2019-06-13

A bit different here!
I’m a botany gore artist, and really wish I could draw it all the time!

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2019-06-13

Hello world of Twitter. I am searching for an artist who is able to do detailed pencil drawings of botany. I am looking to have my ficticious berry drawn in a manner similar to the blueberry detail sketch there, with cross sections , ect.

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2019-06-05

This lush and richly-colored sarsaparilla illustration comes from Robert Bentley's Medicinal plants (1880). Sarsaparilla was touted to have many medicinal uses, including helping with skin problems.

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2019-06-06

Went and added a few deeper shadows to my red onion watercolor piece. I think I'm getting better at using dry brushing techniques!

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2019-06-04

Henry is what some would call a potato. He's stuck in a minimum wage job despite his botany degree. He seems to have no goals outside of caring for his plant babies

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2019-06-01

Latest blog is about the anatomy of the Rosehip

https://t.co/CkgaUildwh…/botanical-illustration-rosehi…/

Botany can be complicated, but learning about the structure of plants is so cool.

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2019-05-31

The Botany Libraries of recently digitized a beautiful volume of original orchid paintings by João Barbosa Rodrigues: "Iconographie des orchidées du Brésil". Explore the signed and dated from 1869 through 1888, in ➡️ https://t.co/AoaKrN48zk

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2019-05-30

Infographic poster for my scientific illustration program! My topic of choice was succulent plants and what makes a succulent a succulent!

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2019-05-27

My piece, "Mental Abuse", from my series "Emotional Botany" for mental health awareness month.

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2019-05-26

Anders Dahl–died 1789, aged 38–was interested in botany from an early age & co-founded The Swedish Topographic Society in Skara. The dahlia was named after him, an honour wrongly thought to have been bestowed on him by Carl Linnaeus of whom he was a pupil.

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2019-05-25

Let's talk plant literacy, botany in media, and SKYRIM!! My plant diversity comic essay is up on !

Check out the full comic here:
https://t.co/BZFFTWyhsd

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2019-05-25

One more pic for today! High quality scan of my small succulents! I'm slowly becoming a crazy succulent lady I'm pretty sure. 😆🌵#SciArt

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2019-05-24

Completed version of my red onion! I had fun figuring out what colors I wanted to use to shade this specimen!

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2019-05-24

Edelweiss, Leontopodium alpinum, is a high altitude plant made famous in the musical 'The Sound of Music'. 🎶🌱 View this botanical illustration in via our Botany Library collections: https://t.co/LvZ9bAbg9f

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2019-05-21

Reconstructing this roughly 140 million year old fossil of Otozamites douglasii, from the extinct group of cycad-like Bennettitales.

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2019-05-20

Second step is done! Finished my rough watercolor study before moving onto moving onto the final product!

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2019-05-19