#Florida #Springbreak Pear trees flower now getting ready for the coming fruiting season!

Congratulations to 2 outstanding UF/IFAS Horticultural Sciences UF IFAS Solutions colleagues on their 2024 election to AAAS! 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽 aaas.org/programs/fello…

⁦UF/IFAS-PlantBreeding⁩ ⁦Lettuce Breeding UF⁩ Thanks to Dr German Sandoya for an excellent overview on Lettuce breeding at the Vegetable Breeding course! Apr 1, 2025

Tomatoes are versatile! US farms produce about 1/3rd of what we consume; another 1/3 frm Mexico ,1/3 frm Canada & the rest frm elsewhere. Production combined with postharvest tech ensures red tomatoes are there everytime you walk into a store! #food #stories

Happy #Easter! Happy #Spring!

In a new Science study, researchers estimate that as many as 1.4 billion people live in areas with soil dangerously polluted by heavy metals like arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, nickel, and lead. The results reveal a global risk, but also a previously unrecognized

#Summer#grape Is there an argument to be made to use wild Vitis germplasm in Eastern North America in improving grapes? #pllants

Rosary peas flower this time of the year in central #Florida. A bewitchingly beautiful but toxic vine of the bean family.

Nature’s #music

#Florida #Nature #PaynesPrairie

#MorningGlory - several weeds in the Morning Glory family are true to their names. Sweet potato is an important #vegetable in this family

#Dandelion #field Many times unkept yard is truly beautiful! #Nature #Asteraceae

There’s something about #tomatoes, everyone loves them! #horticulture #food

The best of North Central #Florida #Nature is in pockets of wild vegetation left untouched in urban and rural neighborhoods!

It’s a joy to find something that you haven’t recognized in the native vegetation for a few years. Looks like Clematis. #Floriida #Nature

New #mushrooms pop up after every July rain in #Florida. #life #fungi

Recently we have celebrated blueberry breeder Dr Paul Lyrene and his presentation on crop domestication was thought-provoking.

With deep sadness, we announce the passing of Dr. Andrew Hanson Andrew D Hanson Lab, C.V. Griffin Sr. Eminent Scholar in UF/IFAS Horticultural Sciences UF IFAS Solutions. To participate in a video montage honoring Dr. Hanson, please share a message by Sept 9: ufl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eb…