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nidhiupatel.bsky.social
@nidhiupatel.bsky.social
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Paleobotanist🌿Palynologist🔬Naturalist🦦
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Big leafy shoutout to @TorreyBotanical for sponsoring #Botany2025!

🌿 If you haven’t yet, check their field trips, fellowships, & plant-nerd-approved lectures on YouTube. 🍄💚 torreybotanical.org
A promotional graphic for the Torrey Botanical Society, the oldest botanical society in the Americas, founded in 1867. The graphic includes the society’s logo and mission statement, highlighting research, education, and public engagement in botany. It features two group photos: one from Staten Island in 1914 and another from upstate New York in 2012. The ad promotes virtual lectures on YouTube, regional field trips, undergraduate and graduate fellowships (deadline January 15), and their free-to-publish, open-access journal. Social media handles and website listed at the bottom.
July 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Passion flower 😍
May 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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🌼The 3rd episode of the BSA's new podcast---A Botanical Podcast!---is now available on all major streaming services!🌼

In this episode, @ehlawrence-paul.bsky.social discusses vegetative phase change in plants.

www.buzzsprout.com/2446995/epis...

#botany #plantscience #morphology #physiology
A graphic announcing the episode of A Botanical Podcast with Erica Lawrence-Paul.
May 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Meet one of the permanent residents of Death Valley, the greater roadrunner that I came face to face with during my latest visit!

#deathvalleynationalpark #roadrunner #nature #birds
May 19, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Don't sneeze! These are spores of a 360 million year old lycopsid 🌿⛏️🔬
Today lycopsids (clubmosses) are small plants & relatively rare but in the Paleozoic some species formed large trees. The spores here have been fossilized still attached in groups of 4 (tetrads)
Happy #FossilFriday! #paleobotany
Fossil spores seen under the microscope
April 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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#fossilfriday featuring new extinct genus, Dacrycarpoides from early Miocene, ~19 mya of New Caledonia. Read more in #ajb bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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May 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Dacrycarpoides, a new genus of extinct Podocarpaceae (#Coniferales) from the early Miocene of New Caledonia

New #AJB research by Nidhi Patel, David Cantrill, Peter Crane, Romain Garrouste, Porter Lowry II, Pierre Maurizot et al.

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #fossils #paleobotany #conifers
Leaf morphology and cuticular anatomy of Dacrycarpoides neocaledonica, a fossil Podocarpaceae from an early Miocene deposit (~19 Ma) on the Pindaï Peninsula of western New Caledonia. Photo shows detail of holotype showing permineralized shoot tip.
May 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM