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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · Aug 28

Medicago seedpods.

Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · Aug 26

Peaches. Prunus persica cultivars including nectarines and some wild relatives like davids’peach P. davidiana, the rare fergana-peach P. ferganensis and hybrids to the almond; P. x amygdalopersica.

Photographed with the help of the INRAE peach collection.

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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · Aug 25

Stored life.

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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · Aug 25

Well seen! The last one is a second Eucalyptus

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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · Aug 24

Seedpods. Including some Australian natives like Eucalyptus, Casuarina, Brachychiton & Callistemon.

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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · Aug 24

Seedpods.
Medicago, Eucalyptus, Silene, Quercus, Cistus, Papaver, Acacia, Casuarina

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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · May 26

5-25 mio years old fossil nuts - European forests of that time were rich in genera: butternuts (Juglans), hickories (Carya), storax trees (Styrax), hazelnuts (Corylus) and mastic seeds (Mastixia). Most of these species later went extinct in Europe during the ice ages.

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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · Apr 26

Bean diversity.

Mostly cultivars of Phaseolus vulgaris.

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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · Apr 26

Some australian seedpods; mostly casuarina and allocasuarina.

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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · Feb 11

Juglandaceae. Walnut cross-sections of various species; mostly Juglans, some Carya.

From my book ‚Die Walnuss‘

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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · Feb 11

Diversity of #Almonds. Wild species, cultivars, and a few hybrids.
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Mandelvielfalt. Wildarten, Sorten und einige Kreuzungen.

#amygdalus

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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · Dec 7

Fabaceae seedpods & seeds

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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · Dec 31

Zea mays. Seeds of a few corn varieties.

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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · Nov 23

Colorful corn (Zea mays) seeds from various cultivars, some of these are known as ‚glass gem corn‘.

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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · Nov 16

My two Monographs on the species, botany, history and culture of Walnuts and Hazelnuts. 'Die Walnuss' portrays the Juglandaceae, 'Die Haselnuss' the genus Corylus, the Hazels.
Including detailed illustrations and species portraits of all species. Written in German, available wherever books are sold