My favourite photo of the week - Field Forget-me-not growing on a grassy bit which one of the local business parks is encouraging to grow as wildflowers. Smaller and paler flowers than the hulking big garden escapes I see more often in urban #Swindon. #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography
botany
Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus was born #OTD in 1707.
Linnaeus introduced the two-part system of naming organisms - binomial nomenclature - where each species is given a genus name followed by a species name. This system brought consistency and clarity to the naming of organisms. His work laid the foundation for the biological classification system by categorizing living organisms into hierarchical groups based on shared characteristics.
Linné at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9516
Scottish botanist and paleobotanist Robert Brown died #OTD in 1858.
In 1827, while observing pollen grains suspended in water under a microscope, Brown discovered the random movement of particles, later known as Brownian motion. He was the first to describe the cell nucleus, which he observed in orchid cells in 1831. He also made significant contributions to the classification of plants, introducing new families and genera.
Florentine physician, philosopher and botanist Andrea Cesalpino was born #OTD in 1524.
"De Plantis Libri XVI" (1583), is one of the earliest systematic treatises on plants. This book laid the groundwork for modern botanical classification. He organized plants based on their fruits and seeds rather than their medicinal properties, which was the common practice at the time. This method was a precursor to the binomial nomenclature system later developed by Carl Linnaeus.
French botanist and explorer Jeanne Barret was born #OTD in 1740.
She is best known for being the first woman to circumnavigate the globe with Bougainville's expedition on the Boudeuse and Étoile from 1766 to 1769. Disguised as a man, under the name Jean Barret, she enlisted as a valet and assistant to the expedition's naturalist, Philibert Commerson, shortly before the expedition's ships weighed anchor. According to Bougainville, she was an expert in botany.
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American artist and naturalist Mary Vaux Walcott was born #OTD in 1860.
She is best known for her watercolor paintings of wildflowers. She has been called the "Audubon of Botany." Vaux participated in numerous expeditions to the Canadian Rockies, where she meticulously documented and illustrated the local flora. Her work provided valuable scientific information and helped to preserve the knowledge of North America's botanical diversity.
South African botanist and taxonomist Louisa Bolus was born #OTD in 1877.
She is known for her extensive work in the field of South African flora, particularly in the classification and description of new plant species. Her extensive collection and classification efforts greatly expanded the Bolus Herbarium, making it one of the most important botanical collections in the region.
Bananas are at risk of extinction, but scientists have a plan. 🍌
From @popsci: A fungus that can infect over 100 different plants is devastating the popular fruit.
#Bananas #Food #ClimateChange #Climate #Agriculture #Botany #Science
First duck orchid of the spring starting to take flight near Genoa, VIC. These large duck orchids (Caleana major) are fairly common around Mallacoota most years but are usually out in larger numbers in October. Only saw the one early flower on the one plant this trip.
#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #EastGippsland #InTheField #Nature
What Is Botanical Illustration? Learn About the History of This Scientific Art Form
By Emma Taggart and My Modern Met Team via @mymodernmet
In October 1843.
Anna Atkins begins publishing Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, a collection of contact printed cyanotype photograms of algae, "by placing the unmounted dried-algae original directly on the cyanotype paper" to form the first book illustrated with photographs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Atkins
New York Public Library provides scans of 285 pages of its copy online:
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/photographs-of-british-algae-cyanotype-impressions#/?tab=navigation&scroll=3
I am the lorax I speak for the trees.
Here I post mostly work or not at all if I can help it. I can be found all over the internet elsewhere however! Consider this place my front door.
The volume of my work and my services are offered at the #free store.
What does an #anarchist business model look like? This is what an anarchist business model looks like.
I call it the free store plus, because you can plus me some money if you like. While I don't hassle, and I am a humble man, calamity ironically struck before I was prepared. The #homestead is not finished, many of the systems are only halfway completed at best. My little storefront is now my only source of income https://ko-fi.com/b_whitewind/shop
A direct link to my #botany #horticultural and work out in the #green is here. If my services aren't what brought you by
https://ko-fi.com/post/The-permaculture-garden-is-nearly-complete-H2H315T0S9
My main social is now elsewhere. My taste are rather outlandish for the crowd here, which I can respect so I've taken the party elsewhere so to speak. Find me touching grass at
https://bsky.app/profile/bishopwhitewind.bsky.social
While most of my work is mirrored on ko-fi, you can find a direct link to my YouTube channel here.
https://youtu.be/KN5-Y8TXKlE?si=_iVdFDa4GQ0A5sLo
Unlike my various social media accounts, the only time anything is posted to Ko-fi or my YouTube channel is when it is work related. So if that's what you're here for, that's where you'll find it.
My personal account is now https://bsky.app/profile/bishopwhitewind.bsky.social
Again, thank you for stopping by, and blessed be.
#Witch #Witchcraft #Meditation #Permaculture #Garden #Gardening #Hedge #Hedgewitch #Solar #Offgrid #SolarPunk #Sustainability #Anarchy #Vegan
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American botanist Catherine Furbish died #OTD in 1931.
She collected, classified and illustrated the native flora of Maine. She devoted over 60 years of her life, traveling thousands of miles throughout her home state and creating very accurate drawings and watercolor paintings of the plants she found.
American botanist, bryologist, and educator Elizabeth Gertrude Britton was born #OTD in 1858.
She was a co-founder of the precursor body to the American Bryological and Lichenological Society. She was an activist for the protection of wildflowers, inspiring local chapter activities and the passage of legislation. Elizabeth Britton made major contributions to the literature of mosses, publishing 170 papers in that field.
8 women botanical artists from across Europe
Making contributions to both art and science
by Aleksandra Strzelichowska (from the archives) via @europeana
https://www.europeana.eu/en/stories/8-women-botanical-artists-from-across-europe
My daughter is starting to see all her USA federal national park summer job opportunities evaporate (many were stretch goals), and is looking now for summer lab research spots.
So if you are doing botany science (not horticulture) or have any leads, hit me up so I can relay. Boosts welcome.
(edit: you folks who are boosting and reading the getfedihired/botany tags are amazeballs, thank you!)
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Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515) book-of-flower-studies
Illuminations of European plants by an anonymous master.
by Hunter Dukes via @publicdomainrev
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/book-of-flower-studies/?utm_source=newsletter
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Hey, what’s up?
Just realized #introduction is overdue.
I’m Erik, and I use he/him pronouns.
I’m 50 something years old and live with my spouse, two teenage kids, two cats, and two dogs. My oldest child is away at college as a #botany major.
For the last 13 years I’ve biked for transportation. I follow the #BikeTooter and #BikeNite tags.
I make art, mostly #figuredrawing and #printmaking
I build software in the film industry.
I play in a biweekly tabletop role playing game.
The Exquisite Illustrations of a Pioneering Woman Herbalist
A Curious Herbal, the first modern edition of Elizabeth Blackwell’s 18th-century botanical guide, grants her the recognition that she has long deserved.
By Lauren Moya Ford (from the archives)
Books by Elizabeth Blackwell at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53378
Defying classification, fantastical artworks reframe the racism of Carl Linnaeus
In the 18th century, the Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus set out to classify life, creating a system of taxonomy that still endures. But, as Firelei Báez explains, his work included hierarchies of humans based on race that were ‘sheer nonsense’, embedding racist ideas into science that echo to this day.
Carl Linnaeus at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9516
