Megan Lynch (she/her)Move over maple: Other tree saps are just as sweet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjV23inZQPE #EconomicBotany #Agroforestry #Food
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Tracing the origins of Stradivari’s resonance wood
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1125786526000123 #EconomicBotany #Botany #Dendrochronology #MusicHistory
61. Agar that comes from seaweed is used in lab media for, among other things, plant tissue culture. At various times, agar has grown more scarce/expensive due to conditions (including climate change-induced rise in temperature in the marine environment). LBG might actually be helpful in some of this lab media, which would take some of the pressure off agar.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2005.03.003 #Carob #History #EconomicBotany #Botany #PlantScience #Horticulture
60. Currently and for some time now, there's been more money in producing carob seeds for locust bean gum (LBG) than in producing carob pulp for its own taste & sugars. Prior to the mid-20th c. another use of LBG (or as it was called then "Tragosol", a trade name) was as a sizing. Sizing something applied to bolts of fabric to keep them stiffer and freer of wrinkles before they're sewn into end-products.
#Carob #History #EconomicBotany #Botany #PlantScience #Horticulture
#Carob #History #EconomicBotany #Botany #PlantScience #Horticulture
IHC📗 Luís Mendonça de Carvalho edited the book ‘The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective. Volume 1’ (Springer), which provides us with a 'unique re-evaluation of the Victorian Age and presents a new historiography based on plants'.
👉 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-68759-4
#Histodons #Botany #Plants #Historiography #Victorians #VictorianEra #VictorianBotany #EconomicBotany #Ethnobotany #HistoryOfPlants #SocialHistory #HistoryOfScience #SciHist
I love tamarind sauce. OMG I love it.
Same plant family as carob.
We should have a plant spin on March Mammal Madness. It would really be hard to decide which plant family, genus, or species is most awesome. #EconomicBotany #Botany
My ride today took me past this, but it was already too hot for me to contemplate stopping to take a look. I only saw signs about it.
Glad someone shared photos of a cork harvesting at the Arboretum today. Davis has many Quercus suber trees on campus and in some areas of town.
https://imgur.com/a/uc-davis-arboretum-cork-harvesting-brI0xrr #EconomicBotany #ThickTrunkThursday #Plants @plants
Jake Rayson@pvonhellermannn count me in 🙂 In my work as a garden designer, I'm really pushing for #wildlife habitat & #NativePlants to be integrated with #ForestGarden edible crops.
A brilliant related book is Kat Anderson’s Tending the Wild, she has introduced me to the existence of #ethnobiology and #EconomicBotany!