Just published on mānuka (Leptospermum scoparium) - a naturally variable tree/shrub from New Zealand and Tasmania. A genetic study using SNPs in Tree Genetics and Genomes. Open access link.springer.com/article/10.100…. 1/3

📢Job Alert - 2 full time positions in Canberra with the National Seed Bank "in the luscious and internationally renowned Australian National Botanic Gardens"🌿 dcceew.gov.au/about/jobs/app… (position numbers 2023/2493 and 2023/2473)

On French botanist Théodore Leschenault, who travelled to Australia in 1800-1803

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Kew Gardens: Botany and the British empire bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

📢Senior Botanist with geospatial science skills wanted in Darwin to help deliver an integrated biosecurity surveillance program across N Australia 🌿 apsjobs.gov.au/s/job-details?…

ARC Training Centre in Plant Biosecurity fully funded by Australian Research Council. Congratulations to the team, of which James Cook Uni and Australian Tropical Herbarium are core partners. Watch this space! rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Dow…

Beautiful images of the Desert Kurrajong, Brachychiton gregorii (Malvaceae)

Thanks to @DeanNicolle1's pics of Corymbia pauciseta, there's now just one eucalypt species without photographs online! Eucalyptus kenneallyi is only known from two tiny islands (Storr, Koolan) off the Kimberley Coast in WA. If you have pics, let me know! tinyurl.com/av589xd7

Come work with us at BHL Australia BHL Museums Victoria! We're seeking a part-time Digitisation Officer to help us make the foundation of Australia's biodiversity knowledge freely accessible online. tinyurl.com/4vs8x2af cc Atlas of Living Aust Please share!

Our revision of the gorgeous Geleznowia (Rutaceae) genus is finally done... it has been a long road. Thanks to Ben Anderson and others for a great team effort and to AusPlants and Bioplatforms Australia for support. publish.csiro.au/SB/SB23010

🔥Sorting and correctly identifying herbarium specimens is essential for effective flora and fungi conservation. We need more botanists working in our herbarium vaults to better understand what species we have, where they grow, and how rare they are👇

✏️ Featured in this year's Margaret Flockton Award are botanical science illustrations by Dr Alastair Robinson of Drosera reflexa - a newly described carnivorous sundew from WA 😮 ~ 🖼️ Exhibition opens Aug 20 at the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan: bit.ly/3QB2BSb

Botanist identified Wollemi Pine as ‘Jurassic Park’ brought to life smh.com.au/national/botan…

🚨 Another job announcement! Biodiversity and Conservation Science is looking for an eDNA specialist to join our Ecosystem Science team on a range of conservation projects. It is a PERMANENT (woo!) full-time position. Details search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pageI…

A sobering thought given the high rates of species discovery and scientific description in Western Australia (not to mention the >1000 undescribed species on our plant census in urgent need of taxonomic study…)

Same in New Guinea: "we estimate that in 50 years 3,000–4,000 species will be added to the number of vascular plants in New Guinea. Species discovery, however, will ultimately depend on enough experts being available" Are experts threatened too?

abc.net.au/news/2023-08-2…

For my final chat with Green jane as RBG Victoria Director, we view 4 of my favourite things (in the National Herbarium of Victoria): an orchid, an oak from RBG Victoria, a red alga (Entwisleia bella) and a leathery piece of Titan Arum. Preserved 'forever' abc.net.au/listen/program…

The Fever Tree Hunt abc.net.au/listen/program…

That time of year again, where WA's native Christmas tree, the Moodjar, begins to flower.