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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · Jul 8

Alpine plants used as incense in Bhutan are also being impacted by climate change in the Himalayas. Currently on view in the #SmellingTheBouquet #PlantsAndScentsInTheGarden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social

Learn more link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · Jun 30

Have you seen the pink lanterns (𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢) in the📍Climatron?

Its nickname "pink lantern" came about due to the way its pink flowers droop on the arched stems in a way that the whole effect resembles a lantern!🏮

📸 Nathan Kwarta

#MOBOTGarden

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Robbie Hart @oreotrephes.bsky.social · Jun 27

This paper was a major collaborative effort. I'm feeling very lucky to be able to work with such a great group of colleagues, and very pleased that one of our major calls is the need to widen the collaboration even more to honor and learn from the global extent of herbaria.

Robbie Hart @oreotrephes.bsky.social · Jun 27

What is the scope of ethnobotany data in herbaria, and what are the next steps to effectively and ethically share this information?

doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

Repositories of biocultural diversity: Toward best practices for empowering ethnobotany in digital herbaria

As herbaria digitize millions of plant specimens, ethnobotanical information associated with them is becoming increasingly accessible. These biocultural data include plant uses, names, and/or managem....

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · Jun 13

Get to know 4️⃣ #BlackBotanists throughout history as welcome all to join us in this year's Juneteenth celebration at the Garden!

🌱 Juneteenth at the Garden | June 19 from 9 a.m.–8 p.m.

Learn more: buff.ly/m0MauwI

📸 Tom Incrocci

#MOBOTGarden

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Robbie Hart @oreotrephes.bsky.social · Jun 5

I'm very proud to be part of the Bhutan-led, international team behind this new publication online now at the Society for Ethnobotany journal Economic Botany. Working with superb colleagues on ecologically important, sacred and beautiful mountains — what else could you ask for?

Colorful Buddhist prayer flags stretch across the blue waters of Omta Tertsho, a sacred lake in Bhutan that reflects the mountains above.

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Robbie Hart @oreotrephes.bsky.social · Jun 5

Climate change affects not only plants for food and health, but also those important to daily practice, our sensory experience of the world, and traditional culture. 🏔️ 🌱

A Swirling Offering: Climate Change Impacts on Incense and Other Useful Alpine Plants of Bhutan:
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A Swirling Offering: Climate Change Impacts on Incense and Other Useful Alpine Plants of Bhutan - Economic Botany

Climate change impacts on social-ecological systems —such as useful plant harvest— can be elucidated through local perceptions and ecological monitoring. To better understand how these two approaches ...

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · Jun 3

A single domestication origin of adzuki bean in Japan and the evolution of domestication genes |
Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Do you love もち (mochi)? If so (or even if you don't), this is an interesting article on the origin of adzuki beans (あずき), source of "red bean paste".

A single domestication origin of adzuki bean in Japan and the evolution of domestication genes

Adzuki is a central legume in East Asian culinary culture, yet its domestication origin remains debated. Using ~700 accessions across Asia, we show that the initial domestication happened three to fiv...

www.science.org

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Jacob Nabe-Nielsen @jacobnabe.bsky.social · May 9

New paper: The composition of Arctic plant communities appears to be more related to fine-scale environmental variation than to large-scale variation in summer temperatures, and microhabitat buffering may thus delay the effects of #ClimateChange at least in W Greenland doi.org/10.1002/ecog... 🌱🧪🌐

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Riikka Rinnan @riikkarinnan.bsky.social · Apr 30

How does plant diversity respond to the rising temperatures in the Arctic?

@nanitundra.bsky.social has superbly led the complex data through to this fantastic @nature.com article out today.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Apr 28

The Biodiversity Heritage Library has just surpassed 63 million pages! Spanning 1469–2025, BHL provides invaluable #OpenAccess to the foundation of our understanding of biodiversity. 🌎 📚 🌱 #ILoveBHL #BHLib ➡️ www.biodiversitylibrary.org

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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · Apr 17

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · Apr 16

Hi Bluesky, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest #OpenAccess digital library of biodiversity literature and archives. We're a global consortium of 660 contributors who've made 63 million pages of biodiversity knowledge freely accessible online. www.biodiversitylibrary.org

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · Apr 15

A new 35m canopy tree species discovered in Tambopata, Amazon Peru. Drypetes oliveri Vásquez, R.Rojas & L.Valenz. sp. nov.

First collected in 1986 by Gentry & Núñez in a 1-ha plot, fertile material was finally found by Rodolfo Vásquez's team in 2023.
revistas.unamad.edu.pe/index.php/ge...

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · Mar 24

The botanist Al Gentry changed tropical ecology and helped create the global science of today.

This new article celebrates Gentry's unique innovations, achievements and lasting influence, more than 30 years after his untimely death.
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Robbie Hart @oreotrephes.bsky.social · Mar 24

Delicate, fragrant blossoms of Edgeworthia chrysantha are opening in the @mobotgarden.bsky.social stumpery. This and other species in its family have long been staples of eastern hand papermaking traditions. For more on the #PlantsAndPeople stories of its relatives: ethnobiology.org/publications....

One pale inflorescence cluster of Edgeworthia chrysantha (paperbush) in the foreground, with yellow daffodils, the red brick of historical Missouri Botanical Garden buildings, and the blue sky of a sunny day in the background.

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Robbie Hart @oreotrephes.bsky.social · Mar 19

Happy Taxonomist Appreciation Day! Knowing plant species is integral to effective conservation. Here's one of my favorite recent examples of conservation taxonomy in action from some of our expert colleagues in the Madagascar program.

discoverandshare.org/2024/03/12/n...

Garden scientists discover new Darwin's Orchid species

Missouri Botanical Garden scientists and collaborators discovered and described a new Darwin's orchid species in Central Madagascar.

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Robbie Hart @oreotrephes.bsky.social · Mar 19

Happy Taxonomist Appreciation Day! Feeling grateful to work with world biodiversity experts like Charlotte (among many many others):

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Living Legend: Garden Scientist Charlotte Taylor has described more new plant species than any woman alive - Discover + Share

In her 41-year career, Missouri Botanical Garden Scientist Charlotte Taylor has described 500 new species of plants. That makes her the most prolific female author of new plant species alive. She is t...

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · Mar 15

President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders.

Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...

ALA response to White House assault on IMLS
To dismiss the mission of an agency that advances opportunity and learning is to dismiss the aspirations and everyday needs of millions of Americans. And those who will feel that loss most keenly live in rural communities. 
As seedbeds of literacy and innovation, our nation’s 125,000 public, school, academic and special libraries deserve more, not less support. Libraries translate 0.003% of the federal budget into programs and services used by more than 1.2 billion people every year. Show Up for Our Libraries, ALA American Library Association, #ForOurLibraries

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Heather Cacanindin @hcacanindin.bsky.social · Mar 3

Very excited to have Dr. Lúcia G. Lohmann as the #Botany2025 Plenary Speaker! Spread the word. This will be a great talk! #iamabotanist #BotanyWithoutBarriers

Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Mar 3

We’re thrilled to announce Dr. Lúcia G. Lohmann as the #Botany2025 Plenary Speaker! A leader in neotropical biodiversity, she serves as President & Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Professor at WashU, driving plant science & conservation forward.

www.botanyconference.org/speakers.html

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Robbie Hart @oreotrephes.bsky.social · Mar 3

Yellow sunflower-field below the blue expanse of Yulong massif.

A central yellow sunflower stands out above a field of yellow sunflowers in the bottom half of the image. In the top half of the image, a background of blue-grey clouds and mountains. Taken at Yulong Xueshan (Jade Dragon Mountain) in Southwest China, 2010.

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Jonas Geschke @jgeschke.bsky.social · Jan 8

Based on bibliometric analysis, this study explores the various methods and resources used for monitoring SDG 15.4 (conservation of mountain ecosystems). Remote sensing methods on monitoring and assessment of mountain SDG indicators are introduced in detail.

📑 doi.org/10.1080/1753...

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Jonas Geschke @jgeschke.bsky.social · Nov 17

Act now for nature and humanity // three fields of action, see the poster and/or policy brief for details 🐝🦖🐠🦤🦔

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Robbie Hart @oreotrephes.bsky.social · Feb 26

@alanelliott.bsky.social Mark Watson suggests World Flora Online name matching tools could help here! @worldfloraonline.bsky.social

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Robbie Hart @oreotrephes.bsky.social · Feb 23

What a wonderful idea! Do you mean from earlier scientific names to APG, or from other systems like “Latinate pharmacological” (I guess there must be a real term for this) or both?

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