Paris quadrifolia, also known as "True Lover’s Knot” is a Eurasian species of Melanthiaceae and prefers to grow in old, long established woods.
In some places, like in Iceland, it is considered endangered.

#botanicalillustration #botanicalart

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

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)