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What a wonderful way to be reintroduced to South African #botany and #biodiversity! Everyone did an amazing job! #Botany2024 #SouthAfrica #RainbowNation #Ethnobotany #EconomicBotany
Colloquium on African Ethnobotany flyer with talk titles and presentor pictures.
June 19, 2024 at 8:32 PM
scottzona.bsky.social
Happy International Tea Day! Raise your teacup to the plant that gives us this divine infusion, Camellia sinensis. #Theaceae Photo by Masahide Kanzaki CC BY 2.0 #Botany #EconomicBotany
Photo of a cup of tea. The porcelain teacup and saucer have a floral pattern. A silver spoon rests on the saucer.
May 21, 2024 at 10:44 AM
botsocamerica.bsky.social
A leaf phenomics approach for estimating belowground traits in North American #licorice

New #AJB research by Zachary Harris, Vivian Tran, Emelyn Piotter, Meredith Hanlon, Matthew Rubin & @ajmiller4233.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

#botany #plantscience #economicbotany
mage of a Glycyrrhiza lepidota plant after harvest for phenotyping of above- and belowground traits.
May 4, 2026 at 5:55 PM
scottzona.bsky.social
Rhamnaceae are used by humans in various ways around the world. Ziziphus jujuba might be the most commercially important member of the family. Its fruits are sweet & edible. Dried fruits are sold as “red dates” in some markets. #EconomicBotany #Rhamnaceae #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
Photo of a package of dried fruits. The package has a clear portion showing the contents and a label written in Chinese.
January 13, 2024 at 4:27 PM
tmigratorius.bsky.social
There are between 2500-3200 species of Astragalus in the world. Why is it we only use two of them?

Astragalus mongholicus syn. A. membranaceus (huang qi)
and
Astragalus gummifer (gum tragacanth)

#materiamedica #herbalmedicine #plantid #economicbotany
March 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
julienantih.bsky.social
Want to explore plant science & human-plant relationships? Follow #materiamedica & tag your posts:
#Ethnopharmacology #EconomicBotany #TraditionalKnowledge

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February 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
scottzona.bsky.social
Ebony wood is the valuable, hard, black, heartwood of several species of Diospyros, incl. D. ebenum (Ceylon ebony). Overharvesting has depleted natural stocks. Here’s a fine example of a carved, 17th Century, French cabinet, from the V&A Museum. #Ebenaceae #EconomicBotany #Botany #PlantScience 🌾
A black wood cabinet standing on tall legs. Every surface of the cabinet is intricately carved.
October 25, 2023 at 11:36 AM
botsocamerica.bsky.social
Traditional medicinal use is linked with apparency, not specialized metabolite profiles in the order #Caryophyllales

By Alex Crum, Lisa Philander, Lucas Busta & Ya Yang

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #economicbotany #phylogenetics #medicinalplants
A phylogeny of selected families in the order Caryophyllales. Species used medicinally for treating infections and infestations are mapped onto the tree, and nodes where medicinal use is over or under distributed are indicated. In concentric rings around the phylogeny, world regions where species are used medicinally are shown.
April 8, 2024 at 2:31 PM
agrobiodiverse.bsky.social
Brassica on the brink: Collards in the Sahara? – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/05/bras...

#conservation #ethnobotany #economicbotany #agrobiodiversity
Brassica on the brink
How did collards get to remote oases on the edge of the Sahara? That's what ethnobotanists Bronwen Powell and Abderrahim Ouarghidi have been looking into for like 20 years now, and it's a fascinating ...
agro.biodiver.se
May 6, 2026 at 10:02 AM
planthums-uk.bsky.social
It's a wrap! #EastAsia & #EconomicBotany symposium
@kewgardens.bsky.social 2 days of amazing papers, talks, tours & delegates - thanks to all! @rhulhistory.bsky.social ‪@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social ‬ @exeter.ac.uk @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
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June 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
rhulgeography.bsky.social
Huge thanks to RHUL Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Diego Molina and Dr Caroline Cornish and Gayathri Anand from @kewgardens.bsky.social for making this visit possible! #KewScienceCollections #Herbarium #EconomicBotany #Museums #Botany
November 18, 2024 at 11:56 AM
ermerlindaj.bsky.social
What a treasure trove the Economic Botany collection at @kewgardens for #histmed - curare as a precursor to anaesthetics, eucalyptus for antiseptic, cinchona for treatment of malaria, and so much more. Thanks to @Economicbotany and @Kim_Wyrt for the tour!
November 17, 2024 at 3:14 AM