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Descubren en #Calakmul planta que no hace fotosíntesis 👽 #Pilostyles maya sp. nov. 2020 (Apodanthaceae). Planta parásita que habita dentro de los tallos de #Bauhinia erythrocalyx y se alimenta directamente de su sistema vascular, es por esto que no hace fotosíntesis #rareplants

flowering in the winter sunshine today is this unusual Oxalis kindly given to me by a good friend , Oxalis herrerae from Peru. Unlike most other oxalis that are low growing this one can eventually grow 3 foot tall and Im loving those swollen leaf petioles quite bizarre 😁🌱

Tonight’s course will introduce ‘The Mighty’ Poales - here’s the material that’s been collected together in readiness for this foray into the order with CUBG_curators & myself

Waving goodbye to the Monocots, it’s time to welcome in the Eudicots this evening with CUBG_curators and myself. Brace yourself for Ranunculales and Proteales!

2 Passiflora spp. - 2 pollination syndromes - P. contracta (left) only the 2nd time this 🦇 pollinated sp. has flowered Cam Botanic Garden check out it’s funky androgynophore (stalk with stamens and stigma) like a head massager & P. telesiphe (right) trad. 🐝 poll. sp. just as 😎

Fern Friday this week is one of my Pyrosia sheareri pushing out plenty of new growth . this one is growing in a hanging basket and has been outside for a few weeks now it’s totally hardy, and I have several planted outside. But I overwintered this one in our unheated greenhouse

Perfectly small! Nymphaea thermarum has produced its first flower of the year Cam Botanic Garden - a tiny water lily species endemic to #Rwanda 🇷🇼- unfortunately its extinct in the wild - these little plants offer hope for the future thanks to KewGardens & Bonn Botanic Gardens

All of the Richtersveld material collected as part of the KewGardens Cam Botanic Garden with SANParks has been mounted by CUBG_curators - it looks amazing and leaves a lasting legacy from the trip! The living material is also thriving both here & with Paul Rees

😢today to be saying farewell to our wonderful Glasshouse Supervisor Alex @CamPlantsman after almost 10 years of being here. He has nurtured our collection, contributed so much to research & shared so much knowledge. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gardd Cymru 🌿 Garden of Wales are lucky to have him & we wish him all the best!

Tackling titans... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gardd Cymru 🌿 Garden of Wales so it begins we have 10 young Amorphophallus titanum kindly donated by Cam Botanic Garden - we are hoping that these will provide the first flowering of this Sumatran 🇮🇩 giant in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 in the coming years! 🪰

I was stopped in my 👣 by the sheer number of blooms on Aristolochia littoralis in the Tropical House 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gardd Cymru 🌿 Garden of Wales this tropical birthwort is from western and southern South America - it’s bizarre🪤 flowers attract 🪰 pollinators by mimicking carrion! Mmmm!

Fantastic furry filaments - bog asphodel - Narthecium ossifragum - love the root of the Latin names - in this case the sp. name refers to weak bones - it was thought to cause this in 🐑 that ate it - it just so happens this 🌱 prefers low-calcium acidic bogs!

Wow! As I repotted a two year old plant of Thottea siliquosa 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gardd Cymru 🌿 Garden of Wales I noticed it was flowering, this is a member of #Aristolochiaceae from South Asia. The seed was kindly donated by TU Dresden - I can’t believe how fast it bloomed from seed!

Our chalk grassland habitat would normally be kept in balance by grazing animals. We don't have any sheep on site (!) so Paul and Chantal have done their best to mimic the grazing action and provide the perfect place for orchids, pasque flowers and other rarities to colonise.

Embreea rodigasiana a close relative of the genus Stanhopea in #Orchidaceae. We have waited and waited for the bud to pop 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gardd Cymru 🌿 Garden of Wales and it’s finally gone and dun’it! A stunning species from El Choco, #Colombia 🇨🇴, not sure of the scent yet, possibly a note of cut grass…

Parasitic plants constitute 1% of the plant kingdom, approximately 4000 species and are spread across 27 families. Previous studies have shown this group to be poorly represented in ex-situ collections. Help this research: ow.ly/nXxO50GieZ8

Five new horticulture jobs: Team Lead for Glasshouses and Nursery (bit.ly/3aUchRv); Senior Horticulturists: Glasshouses (bit.ly/3pjIfyR), Trees and Shrubs (bit.ly/3EdmCEX), Eastern (bit.ly/3FXSOxH) and Western Displays (bit.ly/2YZz8IF)

The TOPC meet regularly - and today we conducted a 'rolling review' of #plants with #AGM awards (read more here rhs.org.uk/plants/trials-…) - discussing and deciding which plant will keep or have their AGMs rescinded, and suggesting new plants that may be worthy of this accolade.