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Understanding orchid adaptability to climate change
Our project FORECAST was selected for a "results in brief" article by @CORDIS_EU cordis.europa.eu/article/id/…
#Orchids #Orchidaceae #ClimateChange
Image: Jacopo Calevo.
How do salt-tolerant plants adapt to heavy metal pollution? Rapid parallel adaptation in Silene uniflora (sea campion).
@BangorUni @KewScience @kewgardens @Metallophyte
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…
Interesting clouds over Ham Parade yesterday evening - it looked like the petrol station was on fire 😳 @Wild_Ham_and_P
A convolvulus hawkmoth (#Agrius convolvuli; dead 😢) found in the garden yesterday - one of our largest native moths, its wings are almost as long as my thumb! #Moths #Hawkmoths #Sphingidae
And so it begins - the first big picking of tomatoes in 2024
🍅🍅🍅 #Solanum #Solanaceae
You know it’s been a weird season when you can still pick a bunch of sweetpeas on 17 August 😳 #Lathyrus odoratus
A #Passiflora we grew from seed 😍. (Female parent was ‘Fata Confetto’). #PassionFlower #Passifloraceae
A hat-trick of heathers, plus western gorse, marsh St John’s wort and harebells - Mynydd Cilan, Llŷn #wildflowerhour
A hat-trick of heathers, plus western gorse, marsh St John’s wort and harebells - Mynydd Cilan, Llŷn
Er gwaethaf y glaw, mae rhai o'r planhigion yn tyfu'n dda/
Some of the plants seem to have enjoyed the damp weather 😍
My copy of #Vermeulen’s “Studies on dactylorchids” (1947) - not the prettiest cover, but look at the #ExLibris 😍. It previously belonged to AJ #Wilmott, the author of many names of plants on which I have worked - #Orchis sl (including #Dactylorhiza) and #Sorbus! #Taxonomy
Gloxinias are +/- out of fashion, but I still like them 😍. #Sinningia #Gesneriaceae
