“Stop & stare” moment some days ago; view of Lake #Pamvotis of #Ioannina (Epirus, NW Greece 🇬🇷) from #Ligkiades village on Mt. #Mitsikeli. Right on time for the sunset 🌄💜🧡 #SeekForTheBeauty

#NoMow used to be a regular in rural areas of Greece. After the 1960s, mowed lawns and posh gardens increased dramatically! I’m proud that our village home garden is an exception; tons of 🐝, 🦋, 🪲& other #insects are buzzing around our garden on this #GreekEasterSunday 🌷🪻🌻🌹

This flower structure is insane 😍

Beautiful places my job takes me to: the #waterlily lake (Lake Zorika), East #Zagori, NW #Greece 🪷 Unfortunately the water lilies weren’t in bloom and the lake was covered by pine pollen & dust, but we found some fresh Red Helleborines close by! #TeamOrchids 🫶

Great outing today with Laboratory of Ecology - EcoLab BET & friends/colleagues, around the Metsovo area, Epirus (NW Greece 🇬🇷)!Spotted lots of great #orchids in diff #habitats, but Kalopissis’ orchid was my personal favorite of the day (a former Greek & currently #Balkan #endemic). #TeamOrchids 🫶

Our new paper on seed quality has been published in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society academic.oup.com/botlinnean/adv… The Linnean Society of London, Oxford Academic, Michael Fay, Karl Duffy, Oxford Journals

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1/7 New research spotlights the challenge of taxonomic ID in the #coca plant (Erythroxylum spp.) using an integrative approach of morphometrics and genomics. Applications: describing biodiversity in this #leaf crop & better characterisation of plantations doi.org/10.1093/molbev…

Amazing work beautifully led by Natalia Przelomska & Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar 🤗 Happy and grateful to be a part of it! Tap below, read the whole 🧵, learn more about the emblematic genus of the coca plants, its importance, and why it is far more than just a drug 🌱

This guy and his amazing artwork! 🤩

Your daily reminder of breathe-in breathe-out: 20 secs of #wave sounds and #sunset magic, straight from burning hot #Greece of (currently) 38C degrees! #SummerInGreece 🇬🇷🤍✨🌅

Super proud of this kiddo 🥹 Well done Fanourios-Nikolaos Sakellarakis 🐐🫶

We're delighted to announce the 2024 #BMCEcolEvol #BMCZool image competition winners! Discover the fascinating stories behind the camera here: bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…. Congratulations to Víctor Huertas, Brandon A. Güell, Anusuya CHINSAMY-T, Martha Charitonidou Laboratory of Ecology - EcoLab BET and Roberto García-Roa! 🏆

Fantastic research & where to find it! 🤩 Out-of-this-world poster with the latest #Orchid #ToL (Tree of Life), designed by my 🐐friend Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar of @KewScience et al., a follow-up of the New Phytologist paper on the origin & speciation of orchids! Tap👇 & enjoy🌷! #TeamOrchids ✌️

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You know the #orchid season is over and a new one’s just around the corner when you see those beautiful spirals swirling around, spreading their beautiful scent and effortless beauty 🤍💫 Gorgeous Spiranthes spiralis from UoI campus, Epirus, NW Greece 🇬🇷 #MeetTheOrchids

Slowly migrating to Blue Sky - you can find me there: bsky.app/profile/martho… 🌷

Beauty in simplicity - always in awe when I see my favorite Helen’s Bee #Orchid (Ophrys helenae) in bloom ❤️ Bonus when covered by raindrops ☔️ #TeamOrchids IUCN Orchid Specialist Group | Laboratory of Ecology - EcoLab BET Τμήμα Β.E.T.