John Anderson

La hierba anual Grausa martinii (=Loasa martinii) es endémica de regiones Araucanía, Los Ríos y Los Lagos. Pese a ser una ortiga no tiene pelos urticantes. Vive en el piso de bosques siempreverdes valdivianos costeros #ConoceTuFlora @MNHNcl @NaturaUdec @IEBChile @conaf_minagri

The unique sedgeland of Button Grass (Parastacoides tasmanicus) of Tasmania. #sedge #Tasmania #莎草

Some more #Firecrest pics on #HengistburyHead #Dorset and within them, the "personality"of this tiny bird. "A" is for Aggression..#crest down or up.

I thought I couldn't better yesterday's Black Redstart, but I think this Firecrest may have done it 😊

What a magical place! Palustriella commutata in abundance. What a fascinating process moss calcification is. From green to copper to the white of scale. Basically watching a living being turning into stone. #tufa #bryophytes #moss @dziedava @drmgoeswild @ReskiLab @GarethFarr1

Japanese Hepatica Murasaki Izu, a new one from last year.

@kewgardens Orchid fan Lionel de Rothschild of @exburygardens gave Kew many species and hybrid orchids he’d grown in his own laboratory and glasshouses. Walter Rothschild of zebra fame was a keen orchidologist too at Tring Park and @WaddesdonManor ‘s were legendary!

The sturdier, more waxy-looking of the common blue Crocus is C. neapolitanus (formerly C. vernus). This is the one that is naturalised in ancient grasslands, like the famous Inkpen Crocus Field in Berkshire. The leaves are wider (4-8mm) than in Tommy (2-3mm).

Hey @crugfarmplants 👋 we bought this Schefflera chapana on our very first shopping trip to you some 9 years ago. It’s now quite a specimen @RHSWisley on Battleston Hill. Hope you’re both well. X

A few flowers of #Illicium simonsii #SICH 1479 just beginning to emerge @kewgardens today #gonnabeawesome #floraofchina #Schisandraceae

The adorable silvery red catkins of Salix ‘Mount Aso’ starting to open on the Winter Walk @RHSWisley

John Watson's stunning images of Tropaeolum kingii, T. beuthii, T. azureum, T. austropurpureum and others can now be seen at https://Chilean endemics.rbge.org.uk/taxa/tropaeolu…

30% of Nothofagus, also know as southern beeches, are threatened with extinction. A new report, The Red List of Nothofagus, is now out! Find out more here: bgci.org/news-and-event…

♒#Nothofagus glauca♒ "Hualo, roble maulino" #floradeChile endémica. IUCN VU. En plena dispersión de semillas (nueces aladas). Ejemplar plantado cerca de la Fac. de Cs. Forestales de la U. Austral de Chile, Valdivia. #Nothofagaceae #chileanflora

#Crocus on display at the #Savill #Garden

Its starting to feel like spring in the glasshouses @TheBotanics the light levels have increased and the ferns have begun to flush new growth #FernFriday #RBGEhort

ギンヨウ(銀葉)アカシア 別名ハナアカシア咲き出す。マメ科ネムノキ亜科アカシア属。オーストラリア原産。 Cootamundra wattle (Acacia baileyana) #flowers #fleurs

Our species of Dorycnium (all of them aliens, mostly casuals) are now subsumed within Lotus. The commonest of them is the very attractive, silver-sheened Hairy Canary-clover, Dorycnium hirsutum, which has become Lotus hirsutus. I think you’ll agree, it is still very handsome.

#winter #colour @Wakehurst_Place today

Its English name, Water Chickweed, rather gives the game away. It looks like a Stellaria, and now it really is one. Myosoton aquaticum has become Stellaria aquatica. In the past, the fact that the plant has 5 styles rather than 3 was enough to put it in a different genus.