Botany

Have some random images from the Meise (little town next to Brussels in Belgium) botanical gardens. They are specialised in endemic plants but also bananas, coffee and succulents. I also included pictures of the seedbank (the short term, max. 10 years part).

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Moondance: Night Blooming American Tobacco (theamericanscholar.org)

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The Lifecycle of a Blackberry (mander.xyz)

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Why do plants wiggle? New study provides answers (phys.org)

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Genetics solves a thorny problem: how plants have prickles (cosmosmagazine.com)

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The fixed life of plants and its constraints - Encyclopedia of the Environment (www.encyclopedie-environnement.org)

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New discoveries regarding tomato hormones can increase total yield (phys.org)

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Hundreds of racist plant names will change after historic vote by botanists (www.nature.com)

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Many plant names are offensive: botanists will vote on whether to change them (www.nature.com)

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Genetic discovery delays peach bloom, safeguards crops from spring frost (phys.org)

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Calling for Some Interesting Botany Books (lemmy.ml)

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Every time I look more and more into botany and plants, I realize just how much I don't know. So I'm calling on you good people of Lemmy to give me some resources. Plus maybe we can add them to the sidebar or a pinned post for other people who are interested.

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How plants heal wounds: Mechanical forces guide direction of cell division (phys.org)

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Plants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells | Quanta Magazine (www.quantamagazine.org)

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Back from the dead: Tropical tree fern repurposes its dead leaves (news.illinois.edu)