Phytotelma (Ecology 🏞️)
Phytotelma is a small water-filled cavity in a terrestrial plant. The water accumulated within these plants may serve as the habitat for associated fauna and flora. A rich literature in German summarised by Thienemann developed many aspects of phytotelm biology. Reviews of the subject by Kitching and Maguire introduced the concept of phytotelmata to English-speaking readers. A multi-authored...
This study reveals just how far parasitic plants can go in reducing their own structure, while still maintaining complex, intimate ties with their hosts. (8/8)
#AoBpapers #PlantScience #Botany #ParasiticPlants #PlantAnatomy #PlantMorphology #PlantParasitism
✅This study challenges long-standing assumptions about the identity of bracts and spikelets, uncovers a previously unknown seed dispersal strategy, and highlights the remarkable evolutionary flexibility within monocots. (8/8)
#PlantEvolution #Poales #FloralEvolution #PlantAnatomy #PlantScience #Restionaceae #SeedDispersal #AoBpapers #Botany
Phytotelma (Ecology 🏞️)
Phytotelma is a small water-filled cavity in a terrestrial plant. The water accumulated within these plants may serve as the habitat for associated fauna and flora. A rich literature in German summarised by Thienemann developed many aspects of phytotelm biology. Reviews of the subject by Kitching and Maguire introduced the concept of phytotelmata to English-speaking readers. A multi-authored...
👀 New study reveals the explosive secret of the squirting cucumber
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2410420121
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-11-26-new-study-reveals-explosive-secret-squirting-cucumber
Seed ejection filmed at 8600 frames per second with a high-speed camera, that remained aimed at the fruit for several days, using an image-based auto-trigger set up.
#Biology #Science #Biomechanics #Locomotion #PlantScience #PlantAnatomy #Seeds #Plants #MathematicalBiology #Cucumber #video #highspeedvideo #STEM
Stop motion animation made by doing sections through wood. Much like an MRI except cheaper to do in tools but more expensive to do in person-hours.
Almond bud scale next to the dissection tool for scale. The pick of the dissection tool is about the same size as a sewing pin.
I have yet to figure out a way to flatten the scales for measurement without tearing them.
#PlantMorphology #almond #botany #dissection #PlantAnatomy #PlantScience
Planetary Ecologist
Annals of Botany
S Zhang
Daniel Pomarède
Megan Lynch (she/her)
Adrien Luyckx