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The beautiful Mountain Phlox (Phlox ovata) is a plant of special concern found in NE Tennessee. The specimen's color may be faded, but they put out a spectacular inflorescence. Photo by Aaron Floden.

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2019-02-21

Botany curator, Sally loves Helleborus foetidus on
Not only does it have a cool name, the Stinking Hellebore, it’s a native plant, it’s an evergreen and you might find it in flower now.

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2019-02-14

Before science was first listed on the curriculum at Ladies' College in 1867, girls were attending botany lessons. Parents didn't mind their daughters studying flowers, but in reality a good deal of biology teaching was carried out under this subject.

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2019-02-13

Marion Delf-Smith founded the program at Westfield College. She took her all-female students on field work and collected the specimens used to teach. She also edited a botany comedy magazine, where her contribution was published. https://t.co/hgXKAGla5P

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2019-02-11

Stunning and realistic pictures with notes in the Pope Alexander VII's 'Greek Latin Dioscurides ' among the

Chig.F.VII.159 (15th cent.): Dictionary of book 🌱🌿🌷🍒🌳 https://t.co/9zuey1et6o

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2019-02-08

everyone's favourite botany teacher

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2019-02-01

Mark Catesby's early 18thc ‘Natural History’, credited with being the first fully-illustrated study of North American and Catesby rejected ‘artistic’ techniques believing they compromised truth, using instead what he called ‘a Flat tho’ exact manner’

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2019-01-30

The Spotted Opossum from "The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay" 1789. https://t.co/N70s6aZ1oK via

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2019-01-30

A little turmeric for your morning tea via Robert
Bentley's 1880 Medical Botany https://t.co/2yfG0tRVmU

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2019-01-29

Dahlia by Adolphe Philippe Millot for Revue Horticole (1918). View more in with thanks to Botany Library for digitizing: https://t.co/XJInVaFq4O

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2019-01-26

Williamsonia! Aka the quintessential member of the Bennettitales, a group of cycad-like seed plants. I did this pretty quickly, so the lighting and detail could be a bit better.

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2019-01-21

I’m just here to make niche botany/pokefandom crossover jokes

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2019-01-15

Any guesses what family and genus these specimens all belong to? It’s an easy one for Monday! 😆🌳

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2019-01-15

I was surprised to find comfrey flowering, albeit just one spike. This was a very quick sketch because of the wind. The leaves can be soaked in water to make plant food, and bees love the flowers

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2019-01-14

Claire’s Garden Hellebore oil on linen - a new January painting.#art

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2019-01-13

Here's a diagram, for an upcoming blog post, depicting three different
Nepenthes lowii, rajah and macrophylla are three species of carnivorous plant which have developed a mutualistic relationship with Tree Shrews (Tupaia montana).

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2019-01-12

Even though these two are mages, they both don’t like each other because Botanya claims that Felicity’s magic is harmful to the environment and Felicity says Botanya’s magic is too princessy. They are only friends because of Blue but they both disagree with each other’s magic.

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2019-01-10

Our next unit of study is to be on the topic of evolution, but maybe I should consider teaching a lesson in botany...

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2019-01-06