Did you know that whilst walking in woods or forests we breathe in phytoncides! These are part of a plants natural defence having antibacterial and antifungal qualities. For humans we then generate more white blood cells boosting our own immune systems. #ThursdayThoughts

During Moss identification with Dr.M, snapped a Campylopus introflexus under the microscope! The deeply downwards curved seta can be clearly seen at this magnification. #moss #madaboutmoss #sbsproskills #mossisaheadache

Some cute little Eranthis hyemalis doing their best to make January seem just a little bit less bleak and hopeless.

Saw masses of Hard fern (Blechnum spicant) adding a bit of green down by the water on a grey day at Chobham common. The fertile fronds add really interesting contrasting textures. #blechnum #ukferns #JanuaryBlues #ferns

#BTS OF #GettingCurious @KewScience taxonomist, systematist and field botanist,Alex Monro explains to Jonathan Van Ness the importance of collecting plant life during expeditions and how it can lead to new species discovery. Be sure to take a listen KewGardens apple.co/2sMFDyI

A Sarracenia with its mouth wide open, ready to trap some unsuspecting bug in its digestive enzyme soup........ #badtimesforabug #sarracenia #carnivorousplants #weirdplacestostickyourfingers

A species saving stud!!! theguardian.com/environment/20…

Good evening . Please read this Wild Justice blog . Defra UK are making a mess of the General Licences and we are considering our position . Our mission is clear - to prevent the unnecessary casual killing of millions of birds across the U.K. wildjustice.org.uk/general/defra-…

The winning team UoR BioSci Plant Diversity at UoR. A great day visiting Ness Garden for Buc2020 - congrats Joshua Ajowele George Garnett Lime Green and Sage @rebecvawoodco12 - you must have been awake during lectures.

Today we reveal how the world's biggest pesticide giants are still making billions selling toxic and bee-harming chemicals. unearthed.greenpeace.org/2020/02/20/pes… Working with @publiceye we've obtained sales for every major product, in every major market for every major crop. (Thread)

What a fantastic day yesterday was Buc2020 was with 7口 and Joshua Ajowele it was all really fun&friendly&met other botanical enthusiasts, which is always great. And thank you so much Dr M still going wild! Alastair Culham we might seem half asleep sometimes, but we are listening really 🤣🤣

I was a very mean horticulturalist and abandoned this agave pup at the bottom of a bag for faaaar too long. Remembered it now, and was amazed to find it full of life and even growing a new shoot!! Totally impressed by its tenacity. Giving it some TLC now.

Great inspiration from @KewScience for Uni of Reading UoR BioSci #MScPlDiv scrapbook assignment! Alastair Culham RNG Herbarium George Garnett Tonii-Chan 7口 Lime Green and Sage Joshua Ajowele Peter Q D Flood

4 photos showing what an absolute stunner of a family Proteaceae is. But that leaf with the red forked tip really sidelined all of us today at Kew. Plants love throwing you identification curveballs don't they 🙄 Joshua Ajowele 7口 #proteaceae #identificationcomplications

World's biggest meat company linked to 'brutal massacre' in Amazon theguardian.com/environment/20…

OCCUPATION OF WESTMINSTER SET TO RESUME TOMORROW The cost of living crisis and climate crisis are inherently one and the same — the extortionate rise in energy prices is caused by our reliance on gas. We need an immediate emergency response now. #CivilResistance #A22Network

🔥 THOUGHT WE'D HAD ENOUGH? 💥THINK AGAIN! JSO IS BACK FOR ROUND 5 OF #OCCUPYWESTMINSTER! While some sleep calmly at night, the world continues to burn, energy prices climb to the hilt and this govt carries on criminally sabotaging this generation's future for corp profits!

@GerardMcL Damien Gayle Just Stop Oil tbf that's exactly the point they're making - we're shocked at the idea of art being destroyed but the destruction of the ecosystem and ongoing mass human death is normal?

If you don’t like activists disrupting yr bourgeois sensibility, saying “there are other ways,” then do it yrself. Go organize something you think will suddenly change things or get “people on yr side.” Most won’t tho b/c they love to hate activists w/o taking their own advice.

News from the bridge ... Our corrupt politics is causing this disruption, it will end when Gov #EndNewOilandGas Donate bit.ly/JSOdonate2 #QEIIBridge #FreeLouis #FreeJosh #SoupAndSunflowers