Gentiana verna
In the Swiss Alps
July 2025

I prefer extinct plants, but if I had to choose a mineral It’d be fluorite. Especially this honey coloured specimen from Wölsendorf, Germany

#mineralmonday

My recommendation during these trying times is to turn into a forest-born monster

For the very first #FossilFriday & #FernFriday of 2026, the leaf of a #fern that was growing in what is now southern France at the end of the Carboniferous, ~300 million year ago 🌿⛏️
#paleobotany #botany

Annularia stellata
Upper Carboniferous
Osterfeld, Germany

Annularia is a form genus of fossil sphenopsid leaves, commonly attributed to Calamites.

#fossilfriday

Starting the year with graphite instead of explosives. I think I like it better this way.

Yuletide blessings to anyone who celebrates the return of the light during the winter solstice

It’s oddly calming that we keep excavating memories that were never ours.

Annularia longifolia
(Calamites leaf form)

Use the term “touch grass” to indicate that someone needs to seek out reality, use the term “touch moss” to indicate that they need to seek out ancient forest magic beyond their mortal comprehension.