Lynn sylvatica

Graphite on white paper: Sketch of a simple Paris quadrifolia with its name next to it

Paris quadrifolia, also known as "True Lover’s Knot” is a Eurasian species of Melanthiaceae and prefers to grow in old, long established woods.
In some places, like in Iceland, it is considered endangered.

#botanicalillustration #botanicalart

A deep blue gentian flower with a white-ish middle portion surrounded by blurry greenery

Gentiana verna
In the Swiss Alps
July 2025

A hand holding a whiskey-coloured mineral consisting of cubes growing into each other in different angles.

I prefer extinct plants, but if I had to choose a mineral It’d be fluorite. Especially this honey coloured specimen from Wölsendorf, Germany

#mineralmonday

My recommendation during these trying times is to turn into a forest-born monster

A piece of rock with fossil fern foliage on it (Pecopteris). Fingertips for scale.

For the very first #FossilFriday & #FernFriday of 2026, the leaf of a #fern that was growing in what is now southern France at the end of the Carboniferous, ~300 million year ago 🌿⛏️
#paleobotany #botany

A picture of a rock with several roughly-star shaped fossil leaves in a hand (for scale)

Annularia stellata
Upper Carboniferous
Osterfeld, Germany

Annularia is a form genus of fossil sphenopsid leaves, commonly attributed to Calamites.

#fossilfriday

Pencilsketch of an ammonite fossil with living violets growing around it

Starting the year with graphite instead of explosives. I think I like it better this way.

Yuletide themed handdrawn sketch of a lit fire bowl surrounded by a Yulelog, a wreath, and a living Yuletree, all decorated with holly leaves, berries and snowflakes.

Yuletide blessings to anyone who celebrates the return of the light during the winter solstice

Thank you! I will give my best not to disappoint.

Fossil leaf impression of Annularia longifolia in dark grey shale, held in a hand for scale.

It’s oddly calming that we keep excavating memories that were never ours.

Annularia longifolia
(Calamites leaf form)

Use the term “touch grass” to indicate that someone needs to seek out reality, use the term “touch moss” to indicate that they need to seek out ancient forest magic beyond their mortal comprehension.