Artemis Anest

As botanists and Plant Architects in Montpellier 🌿, his vision of forests 🌳 profoundly shaped the way we think about and observe plants. A giant has passed, but his legacy will remain a major source of inspiration, worthy of our deepest admiration and gratitude.

En tant que botanistes et Architectes des Plantes montpelliérains 🌿, sa vision des forêts 🌳 a profondément façonné notre manière de penser et d’observer le végétal. Son héritage restera une source majeure d’inspiration, avec l’admiration et la reconnaissance qu’il mérite.

Close up of a section in a fossil plant with preserved tissues, showing details of a vascular byndle with xylem (conducting) cells

Happy #FossilFriday from this smiling fossil bundle of vascular tissues! It belongs to a cladoxylopsid, an extinct group related to today's spenopsids (horsetails) & ferns 🌿⛏️ This specimen comes from Southern France & dates from the early Carboniferous, about 350 million years ago. #paleobotany

Fig. 3 Sigillaria approximata tracheids in transverse section from proximal (a–c) and distal (d–f) in the trunk.

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

(🧵 1/6) Structural and physiological constraints on arborescent lycopsid establishment and growth
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Production of root suckers in Glossopteridales from the late Permian of Antarctica Premise The Glossopteridales are an extinct group of seed plants that dominated mid to high latitude floras of the supercontinent Gondwana during the Permian (298–251 million years ago). Reconstruct.....

Check our paper with @paleobotanist.bsky.social on root suckering in a Permian glossopterid from Antarctica 🌳⛏️🇦🇶 It's the 1st report of root suckering in this group & the oldest in the fossil record
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... 🧵1/5
#paleobotany #botany
@umramap.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

Kunming #BotanicalGarden (CN) is absolutely amazing!✨
Beyond safeguarding thousands of species through living collections, it's actively involved in the regeneration of extremely #rareplants by eventually climbing 80-meter #trees to collect #seeds and saving species from #extinction💚
#conservation

Serial section videography (SSV): A low-cost protocol for generating 3D reconstructions of internal plant structure

New in #AppsPlantSci by Jacob Suissa & Giselle Reyes

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #plantanatomy #plantdevelopment #microCT #PlantScience

We have a new Dr in #paleobotany! Congratulations to @thibault-durieux.bsky.social who successfully passed his viva. It was a great journey & he made the advising job very easy for
@petermoonlight.bsky.social, Carla Harper and I. Big thanks to the examiners Jenny McElwain & @sandyheth.bsky.social!

YouTube video by Genopolys Artémis Anest à la Nuit Méditerranéenne des Chercheuses 2025

🍃 Science out of the lab and into the night 🌙
Honoured to present our research on plant diversity at #MEDNIGHT !

#PlantDiversity #PlantScience #PublicEngagement #ResearchOutreach

From top to bottom : Branches and cones of Sequoites, a cretaceous conifer closely related to cypress family (Cupressaceae) Asterophyllites equisetiformis, aka leaves of the lycopod relative Calamites, a tree-size plant that live during the Carboniferous in what's now Europe. Reproductive structure of Runcaria heinzelinii, showing spiraling strings, leaves and an upright structure at the center

You know what's cool too ? Plants ! We had 3 of them this year : the cretaceous conifer Sequoites🌲, a really close relative of our modern seed plants called Runcaria🌾, and Asterophyllites, which is the given name of the leaves from carboniferous tree-size horsetails like Calamites🌿

A chinese fan palm, drawn in high levels of detail. Attributed to Vishnuprasad c. 1825

Papaver falconer, a poppy. Artist unknown, 1840

Painting of a sunflower. Its petals are bright yellow and it has circular black centre. artist unknown, c 1795.

One of our Fellows has co-curated a fascinating exibition of Indian botanical art. Henry Noltie & Sita Reddy chose 52 drawings by Indian artists, and where possible identified the artists responsible.
'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026.
Images © RBG Kew.

Just back from the Sino-French International Research Network on Biodiversity (SF-IRN-B) Summer School held in Yunnan, China🌿
Huge thanks to CAS, @cnrs.fr, & organizers for this exceptional event! Congrats to all participants for your curiosity!
#Biodiversity #Yunnan #SummerSchool #ClimateChanges

When it's been a really long day of parenting...

You're doing a great job, Mama 🧡

Applications for our 2026 Associate Editor Mentoring Scheme close TOMORROW! ⏰🌏

If you'd like to learn more about the peer review process then this voluntary two-year role could be the role for you 🌱🧪

Find out more and apply: bit.ly/47uwYlD

I had the pleasure of taking part in The Mediterranean Researchers' Night #MEDNIGHT and organizing a workshop with
🍃Murielle Droissart @plantnet.bsky.social
🌴Anne-Laure Decombeix @aldpaleo.bsky.social
🌿Gaëlle Viennois
Grateful to Genopolys and to all who joined!🌸

#WomenInScience #Botany

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exposed roots of the Mediterranean shrub Daphne gnidium, it's can be massive
#botany #belowground #plant #roots #Thymelaeaceae

🌱Budding plant architects 🌱
@hugobonnaudet.bsky.social
exploring plant architecture 🌳in a practical workshop we organised at the University of Montpellier 🌺
@umontpellier.bsky.social
@umramap.bsky.social

#PlantArchitecture #Botany

#EBDSeminars

🔸Camila Benavides-Frías (Social-Ecological Systems Institute SESI)

🔹Food comes from agroecosystems: the role of agriculture for the reproductive of life

📅Thursday, 18th September. 13h CEST

Live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqGf...

Very proud of @yuansoup.bsky.social on getting this PhD chapter published- a synthesis that started due to travel restrictions from COVID-19 but turned out to be very insightful, highlighting the botanical consequences of defaunation 🦜🦣🥑🥭

Did you know that wild plant harvesting is an ancient practice that remains vital—from medicine to food and cosmetics? 🌿
Yet its ecological impact is overlooked. In a new study, we assessed 692 species in France (12% of the flora) to uncover drivers and conservation gaps.
#WildPlants #Conservation

Using high penetration airborne LiDAR and dense UAV scanning to produce accurate 3D maps of light availability in dense tropical forest LiDAR makes it possible to describe the 3D structure of the forest, from which species habitats can be accurately estimated, over large areas at fine …

New paper online by @vincyane-badouard.bsky.social et al. @umramap.bsky.social in Agriculture and Forest Meteorology: "Using high penetration airborne LiDAR and dense UAV scanning to produce accurate 3D maps of light availability in dense tropical forest"

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Two-panel illustration showing sparse trees in a Cretaceous landscape (bottom) and densely forested Paleocene landscape.

With the extinction of dinosaurs, dense, closed-canopy forests could proliferate, leading to shifts in fluvial structure and accumulation of organics. This represented a profound change in the landscape, illustrated here by the incomparable Julius Csotonyi.