🌱🌾🌻🌳🌍 Bloody cranesbill (Geranium sanguineum) bright magenta flowers. Pretty palmate leaves. Locally common on natural limestone like cliffs and pavements & nearby grassland, scrub, sands. Derbyshire, Burren, Avon Gorge, Gower, Great Orme, Ingleborough. Also garden plant. #BUC2024
November 5, 2024 at 2:47 PM
🌱🌾🌻🌳🌍 Bloody cranesbill (Geranium sanguineum) bright magenta flowers. Pretty palmate leaves. Locally common on natural limestone like cliffs and pavements & nearby grassland, scrub, sands. Derbyshire, Burren, Avon Gorge, Gower, Great Orme, Ingleborough. Also garden plant. #BUC2024
⚘️🌱🌾🌴🌿🌍🧪🌶 Few people eat whole raw hot chilli peppers (Capsicum species), but look at this bird! Chilli peppers have evolved so birds distribute their seeds. Birds lack receptors for the capsaicin that gives the heat and pain sensation to people. #BUC2024
August 11, 2024 at 2:57 PM
⚘️🌱🌾🌴🌿🌍🧪🌶 Few people eat whole raw hot chilli peppers (Capsicum species), but look at this bird! Chilli peppers have evolved so birds distribute their seeds. Birds lack receptors for the capsaicin that gives the heat and pain sensation to people. #BUC2024
🌾🌍🌱🌺In autumn & winter, dead flowerheads remain on plants. However even the freshest summer flowers of carline thistle ( Carlina vulgaris, Asteraceae) look dead! They look and feel dry and spiky. Grows in limestone and chalk areas, poor soils, unimproved grassland, England, Wales, Ireland. #BUC2024
November 2, 2024 at 10:29 AM
🌾🌍🌱🌺In autumn & winter, dead flowerheads remain on plants. However even the freshest summer flowers of carline thistle ( Carlina vulgaris, Asteraceae) look dead! They look and feel dry and spiky. Grows in limestone and chalk areas, poor soils, unimproved grassland, England, Wales, Ireland. #BUC2024
🌾🌍🌱🌿🧪Apium graveolens. Better known as celery (crunchy, tasty leaf stems), celeriac (expanded tasty hypocotyl, keeps well overwinter), celery leaves (varieties grown for leaf production) and celery seed (flavouring). All from one species originating in Mediterranean and Europe area. #BUC2024
November 4, 2024 at 10:09 AM
🌾🌍🌱🌿🧪Apium graveolens. Better known as celery (crunchy, tasty leaf stems), celeriac (expanded tasty hypocotyl, keeps well overwinter), celery leaves (varieties grown for leaf production) and celery seed (flavouring). All from one species originating in Mediterranean and Europe area. #BUC2024
Second Student Botany Festival. #BUC2024 Looking VERY closely at flowers. Much more to see than from first glance. @queensoxbiology.bsky.social
August 30, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Second Student Botany Festival. #BUC2024 Looking VERY closely at flowers. Much more to see than from first glance. @queensoxbiology.bsky.social
🌾🌍🌱🌿🌺Students writing in latest newsletter #BUC2024 about places they've been, plants they've seen. Iceland has beautiful flowers in rugged landscape. Read the whole article at botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/
November 18, 2024 at 10:45 AM
🌾🌍🌱🌿🌺Students writing in latest newsletter #BUC2024 about places they've been, plants they've seen. Iceland has beautiful flowers in rugged landscape. Read the whole article at botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/
🌱🌍🌿🍄🧪Borage (Borago officinalis), also called starflower. Boraginaceae family. Originates around the Mediterranean region. Now in many other places. Cultivated for seed oil, substantial levels of gamma-linolenic acid & others. Flowers used as a garnish on food & drink. #BUC2024
July 25, 2024 at 9:06 PM
🌱🌍🌿🍄🧪Borage (Borago officinalis), also called starflower. Boraginaceae family. Originates around the Mediterranean region. Now in many other places. Cultivated for seed oil, substantial levels of gamma-linolenic acid & others. Flowers used as a garnish on food & drink. #BUC2024
🌍🌱🌾🌳🌻 Dill (Anethum graveolens, family Apiaceae). Originates from North Africa and Arabian Peninsula region. Seeds & leaves now used to flavour foods & preserves around the world. Likes rich, well drained soil & sunshine not shade. #BUC2024
July 28, 2024 at 7:12 PM
🌍🌱🌾🌳🌻 Dill (Anethum graveolens, family Apiaceae). Originates from North Africa and Arabian Peninsula region. Seeds & leaves now used to flavour foods & preserves around the world. Likes rich, well drained soil & sunshine not shade. #BUC2024
🌍🌾🌱🍄The Thymes, newsletter of Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024 includes students writing about their botanical interests. Here, #dendrochronology. Read more at botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/
November 23, 2024 at 11:14 AM
🌍🌾🌱🍄The Thymes, newsletter of Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024 includes students writing about their botanical interests. Here, #dendrochronology. Read more at botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/
Looking forward to catching up with the fabulous @drmgoeswild.bsky.social at tomorrow's British & Irish Botanical Conference!
He's giving a flash talk & a poster about Botanical University Challenge & several #BUC2024 participants are also exhibiting.
Can't wait!
He's giving a flash talk & a poster about Botanical University Challenge & several #BUC2024 participants are also exhibiting.
Can't wait!
Looking forward to attending the @bsbibotany.bsky.social AGM on Saturday, meeting old botanical friends and talking about the fabulous unstoppable student botany project that is @bucbotany.bsky.social !
November 22, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Looking forward to catching up with the fabulous @drmgoeswild.bsky.social at tomorrow's British & Irish Botanical Conference!
He's giving a flash talk & a poster about Botanical University Challenge & several #BUC2024 participants are also exhibiting.
Can't wait!
He's giving a flash talk & a poster about Botanical University Challenge & several #BUC2024 participants are also exhibiting.
Can't wait!
🌱🌲🌴🌳🌾🌎Many monkey puzzle trees (Chilean pine, pinõnero, Araucaria araucana) are in gardens around the world. It is endangered in its wild home of south-central Andes. Separate male and female plants. Seeds dispersed by long-haired grass mouse (Abrothrix longipilis) & parakeets. #BUC2024
July 3, 2024 at 9:02 AM
🌱🌲🌴🌳🌾🌎Many monkey puzzle trees (Chilean pine, pinõnero, Araucaria araucana) are in gardens around the world. It is endangered in its wild home of south-central Andes. Separate male and female plants. Seeds dispersed by long-haired grass mouse (Abrothrix longipilis) & parakeets. #BUC2024
🌱🌍🌿🍄🌾Wild wollemi pines are around 100 plants in an Australian valley. However, many now grown in gardens & botanic gardens around the world. Related to monkey puzzle tree. Separate male & female trees. Another tree that dinosaurs would have known! #BUC2024
kew.org/plants/wolle...
kew.org/plants/wolle...
July 22, 2024 at 1:15 PM
🌱🌍🌿🍄🌾Wild wollemi pines are around 100 plants in an Australian valley. However, many now grown in gardens & botanic gardens around the world. Related to monkey puzzle tree. Separate male & female trees. Another tree that dinosaurs would have known! #BUC2024
kew.org/plants/wolle...
kew.org/plants/wolle...
🌱🌍🌿🍄🌾🧪Why don't people see the plants around them? The Thymes, newsletter of Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024, article about PlantBlindness/PlantAwarenessDisparity/PAD by Nigel Chaffey. Read more on his website at plantcuttings.uk
April 24, 2024 at 9:08 AM
🌱🌍🌿🍄🌾🧪Why don't people see the plants around them? The Thymes, newsletter of Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024, article about PlantBlindness/PlantAwarenessDisparity/PAD by Nigel Chaffey. Read more on his website at plantcuttings.uk
🌾🌍🌱🌿🌺Above a plant covered in harsh hairs like bristles (hispid), the dingy purple flowers of common comfrey (Symphytum officinale) conceal more attractive stamens alternating with corolla-scales within a tube of 5 fused petals. #BUC2024 @bsbibotany.bsky.social
November 6, 2024 at 11:25 AM
🌾🌍🌱🌿🌺Above a plant covered in harsh hairs like bristles (hispid), the dingy purple flowers of common comfrey (Symphytum officinale) conceal more attractive stamens alternating with corolla-scales within a tube of 5 fused petals. #BUC2024 @bsbibotany.bsky.social
🌱🌍🌿🌾🍄 What is a fruit? Many delicious ones - apples, bananas, kiwifruit, mango, blueberry, hazelnuts, chili - so many! Technical definition the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants formed from the ovary after flowering. But so many different shapes, textures, features, sizes. #BUC2024
July 8, 2024 at 9:00 AM
🌱🌍🌿🌾🍄 What is a fruit? Many delicious ones - apples, bananas, kiwifruit, mango, blueberry, hazelnuts, chili - so many! Technical definition the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants formed from the ovary after flowering. But so many different shapes, textures, features, sizes. #BUC2024
🌾🌱🌍🌿🍄🌺❤️ 14 February, St Valentine's Day. Say it with flowers! And which is more beautiful than love-in-a-mist (sadly not in flower in UK & Ireland in February)? But what is its scientific name? A question to #BUC2024 contestants last year. Can you pick the correct answer? @bsbibotany.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🌾🌱🌍🌿🍄🌺❤️ 14 February, St Valentine's Day. Say it with flowers! And which is more beautiful than love-in-a-mist (sadly not in flower in UK & Ireland in February)? But what is its scientific name? A question to #BUC2024 contestants last year. Can you pick the correct answer? @bsbibotany.bsky.social
🌱🌿🌾🌏Not a palm (angiosperm) but a gymnosperm, sago cycad, originating from Japan. Separate male & female plants. Slow growing, long lived. Roots host nitrogen fixing bacteria (Anabaena species). Sago can be prepared from its pith, with toxin removal. Also ornamental plant. #BUC2024
July 4, 2024 at 9:11 AM
🌱🌿🌾🌏Not a palm (angiosperm) but a gymnosperm, sago cycad, originating from Japan. Separate male & female plants. Slow growing, long lived. Roots host nitrogen fixing bacteria (Anabaena species). Sago can be prepared from its pith, with toxin removal. Also ornamental plant. #BUC2024
🌱🧪🌍🌿🍄🌾Quarterfinalists in Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024. Impressively came second in both Rounds 1 & 2!! Can they do it again? Watch YouTube from 14:00 GMT Wednesday 28 February to find out. www.youtube.com/@BotanicalUn...
February 25, 2024 at 11:21 AM
🌱🧪🌍🌿🍄🌾Quarterfinalists in Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024. Impressively came second in both Rounds 1 & 2!! Can they do it again? Watch YouTube from 14:00 GMT Wednesday 28 February to find out. www.youtube.com/@BotanicalUn...
🌍🌾🌱🌴 Botanists use many terms for distinctive plant fruits. One is drupe, where a single seed is encased in a hard shell formed from the ovary wall. Outside this is a fleshy layer. Plants forming drupes include coffee, dates, olives, mango & all Prunus fruits (eg plums). #BUC2024
July 21, 2024 at 1:42 PM
🌍🌾🌱🌴 Botanists use many terms for distinctive plant fruits. One is drupe, where a single seed is encased in a hard shell formed from the ovary wall. Outside this is a fleshy layer. Plants forming drupes include coffee, dates, olives, mango & all Prunus fruits (eg plums). #BUC2024
Check out the latest @bucbotany.bsky.social newsletter which features a roundup of BUC2024 (spoiler: @york.ac.uk finished second!), plus Kian Hayles-Cotton shares details of a new project which has been launched to encourage species recording and the development of identification skills.
🌾🌍🌱🌿🍄🌳Latest newsletter Botanical University Challenge available. BUC2025, winners & runners-up 2024, 2nd Student Botany Festival, results art&photo comp, LinkedIn, iNaturalist, interviews, course, plants, books, podcasts. A bumper issue! Download from botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/
December 4, 2024 at 10:18 AM
Check out the latest @bucbotany.bsky.social newsletter which features a roundup of BUC2024 (spoiler: @york.ac.uk finished second!), plus Kian Hayles-Cotton shares details of a new project which has been launched to encourage species recording and the development of identification skills.
🌱🌾🍄🌎🌳 Orchids provide virtually no food for their seeds. Instead, germinating seed has to quickly hook up with a fungus to supply food to it. Orchids found worldwide, in top 2 largest flowering plant families, around 28,000 species. Plants produce thousands of tiny seeds. #BUC2024
June 22, 2024 at 10:17 AM
🌱🌾🍄🌎🌳 Orchids provide virtually no food for their seeds. Instead, germinating seed has to quickly hook up with a fungus to supply food to it. Orchids found worldwide, in top 2 largest flowering plant families, around 28,000 species. Plants produce thousands of tiny seeds. #BUC2024
🌱🌾🌳🌍 Do you have a favourite plant? About 400,000 species to choose from! Or perhaps an individual plant? Tell us about yours. Read about Izzy Beresford's Issue 8 The Thymes, newsletter Botanical University Challenge.
botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/
#BUC2024 @bsbibotany.bsky.social
botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/
#BUC2024 @bsbibotany.bsky.social
August 9, 2024 at 9:16 AM
🌱🌾🌳🌍 Do you have a favourite plant? About 400,000 species to choose from! Or perhaps an individual plant? Tell us about yours. Read about Izzy Beresford's Issue 8 The Thymes, newsletter Botanical University Challenge.
botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/
#BUC2024 @bsbibotany.bsky.social
botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/
#BUC2024 @bsbibotany.bsky.social
🌾🌍🌱🍄🌿Prizes and applause for winners of the photography and art competition run alongside Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024. Impressive work from university students across the UK and Ireland. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social
September 26, 2024 at 11:11 AM
🌾🌍🌱🍄🌿Prizes and applause for winners of the photography and art competition run alongside Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024. Impressive work from university students across the UK and Ireland. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social