I usually pedal my cargo quadricycle out to the field but a frame design flaw made the frame crack & it'll be at least 3 wks before I can ride it again.
So I'm driving (ugh) and walking in the orchards instead. Here's a dormant cherry leaf bud taken through a 10x loupe. @plantscience
Botanical Society of America (BSA) did a survey of members' social media use. There were only 246 responses (out of how many thousands?) and based on that they've put all their oomph into BlueSky.
Not just starting an account there but pooling invite codes to help people join BS. Disappointing. @plantscience#Botany#PlantScience
@alexwild@plantscience Oh, I have no doubt folks who go for those billionaire-owned walled gardens will regret it, but in the meantime...they'll neglect building academic community in a place where they have more control over their own experience. Has a single scientific professional society started their own instance?
@ml
I tried Bluesky, but I didn't care for it. I like the Fediverse vibe more. I secretly hope that BS won't take off because I'm not really interested in Twitter clones. @plantscience
One of the things I was able to do on the birdsite that there just isn't much opportunity to here is find out "current events" in carob by doing a search every week or so.
If you ever see a carob toot, please forward it to me, especially if it's not a tired carob hippie joke, but actual research or market or real life info re Ceratonia siliqua/#Carob
Tweet by @TheBeerShopper with phto of an amber-colored liquid in a red wine glass next to a brown beer bottle with purple labels with gold text and decoration in an Islamic art-influenced style. Label says "Loura 3.2% vol alc. Moura cerveja de alfarroba. Carob beer." Both glass and bottle are on a white tablecloth and backlit in a clearly sunny vacation spot. Text of tweet says "Another first for me, Carob beer from in Portugal. Tasty. Now have to Google what the hell Carob is."
March 9, 2018 tweet by Emily van der Nagel @emvdn "Here's a treat I haven't had for about 18 years: carob buds, a staple at my primary school canteen in the 90s" with 3 emojis I can't make out. Photo shows view from above of a paper bag of carob "chocolate" candies held in the hand of a pale person. puts on flower crown, falls into a faerie circle Replying to @CoffeeShopRabbi and @RutiRegan "THANK YOU it's just its own thing calling carob 'fake chocolate' is a lesser but similar thing to calling Hanukkah 'Jewish Christmas' 3:51 AM - Feb 11, 2020 - Twitter for Android"
Progress photo of the oldest #Carob flower raceme on my tree. It's hermaphrodite when most carobs have either male or female flowers. Technically, this can self-pollinate, but it'll be interesting seeing if it will do it under the current conditions.
Some stamens are already past their prime. Some are fully ripe, others still on the way. Same with the pistils. If you look closely, you can see the seam on the pistil that would show up in the ripe fruit as well. @plantscience #Flower#Botany
Alright, let's see how many Plant Scientists/Botanists we can reach here in the Fediverse.
Reply to this tweet with an introduction of yourself, what first attracted you to plants, and what you work on now. And boost this toot! #Planticipation#Botany#PlantScience
@ml I forgot to say what first attracted me to plants: walking through the woods in Virginia during my childhood, learning to recognize (and avoid) poison ivy and Devil's walking stick, reading the 'Foxfire' series on Appalachian technologies, and a certain fascination with magic and sorcery from reading Tolkien, Arthuriana and the like
@ml and what brought me to mushrooms was an eastern European girlfriend, of course! I tell the story in the special "Mushroom Issue" of Economic Botany published on the 50th anniversary of Valentina Pavlova and Gordon Wasson's ground breaking ethnomycological survey 'Russia, Mushrooms and History' who shared a similar mushroom honeymoon
Black Mountain (ACT) orchids - Dusky Fingers, Waxlips and Brown Caps out in one spot, but not much out at all in others (although I only had a quick look!) Canberra has had pretty much exactly the average rainfall for this calendar year so far - but local bush land and forests still felt a little drier than most really good orchid seasons. Might have to wait until the montane species start to flower later in spring / early summer now to put a lot of time into looking for Canberra orchids.
I didn’t have much luck at the weekend with #botanical#photography - it was rainy and I had a lot of work to do. I want to share, nevertheless, a mobile phone photo of the big #Datura inoxia which showed up between the newly planted #vine#plants in our vineyard… It’s unlikely it came with the vine plants as those arrived without soil, and also the Senior said he has seen Daturas growing on our land in different places before, so it seems to be somewhat established here. May I remind you, that’s not the #Mediterranean, that’s the #Elbe Valley in #Saxony, Germany. (Note: reposted.)
Flower that thrives in Death Valley may hold secret to heat adaptation: Insights into how Death Valley’s Tidestromia oblongifolia tolerates such high temperatures could help researchers to engineer crops that can survive global warming https://archive.is/0I9Vn