A few other nice plants from the Lizard today - Fringed Rupturewort Herniaria ciliolata, Dyer’s Greenweed Genista tinctoria and - my personal favourite - Corn Parsley Sison segetum which is almost impossible to photograph well! #wildflowerhour

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Being the last Friday of the month, we held our monthly #plant walk today led by our senior #botanist Dr. Mwachala Geoffrey Mwachala assisted by Ken Wambua. Good attendance by Nature Kenya-Africa members & National Museums of Kenya staff. #FloraOfTropicalEastAfrica #NMK #Nairobi #Kenya

The Oasis ticket debacle a fine reminder that all bands & artists should be more like Paul Heaton

Not in flower so a bit of a cheat, but the fruits of Black Bryony (Tamus/Dioscorea communis) - a temperate relative of yams - were looking great in the Cornish sunshine near Cadgwith, Lizard a couple of days ago #wildflowerhour #climbingplants

The improbable Babington’s Leek (Allium ampeloprasum babingtonii) almost 2m tall at Gwithien Towans, Cornwall - a British (including Channel Is) endemic. Hard to miss! #wildflowerhour

Autumn Lady’s-tresses (Spiranthes spiralis) was quite frequent on short dune turf at Gwithien in Cornwall this week, always lovely to see #wildflowerhour #orchids

Grass of Parnassus in #LyeValley #fen #SSSI seems to get well pollinated despite deceiving insects with its branched 'false nectaries' - groups of shining globules, look like nectar drops, but give none.... here just a variety of inverts searching,or just resting, in the flowers.

📢 URGENT! Lake Sofia in Madagascar is on the brink of collapse 📢 But with your help, we can build a community dam to protect the people and nature that depend on this vital wetland. 🤲🏻 Every second counts. Donate today: wwt.org.uk/join-and-suppo…

Found these ripe #fruits (plus plenty of flowers) of Black Nightshade #Solanaceae on the railway bridge at Richmond-on-Thames yesterday #wildflowerhour

Great to see this beautiful and rare #Acanthaceae from northern-most #Madagascar - it is now in the genus Stenandriopsis (along with all palaeotropical “Stenandrium”).

Uni Hohenheim I feel increasingly concerned about the current generation who lack basic knowledge about their own history, that despise their own roots and see their #universities just as places where #impactfactor and #metrics are the only important part of their education -10-

The new species #Cyperus kilelai grows near a thermal spring that can reach 80°C. Sadly, these are desired locations for geothermal power plants and spa hotels. Will this habitat in Katanga, DR Congo survive? ➡️ doi.org/10.5091/plecev…

Martin Mere WWT has seen a pair of Pink-footed Geese breed for the first time in the reserve's history: bit.ly/3TmSMHO

We're celebrating success!🎉 We led the first ever translocation of the rare One-flowered Wintergreen in Scotland - 9 months later it's thriving at the new sites!💚 Read the press release 👉 bit.ly/3MVAv1I 📷 Sam Jones

🧵 Extremely excited to share our updated #Orchid Tree of Life poster, led by Kew Gardens and inc. over 40 coauthors! It showcases the latest relationships, origin timings of major groups, and key facts, inc. global #species richness and those under threat of #extinction 1/2