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Emily Woodbury @emilywoodbury.bsky.social · 2d

St. Louis isn’t experiencing the bright yellow, orange and red fall colors that it has in years past. Instead, green leaves are turning straight to brown. The culprit: heat and drought. #STL #fall #autumn #leaves #horticulture #trees @stlpublicradio.bsky.social @mobotgarden.bsky.social

St. Louis trees will be more brown this autumn. Here’s why

“The leaves may drop sooner, and the coloration may not be as vibrant,” says horticulturist Daria McKelvey.

www.stlpr.org

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 7h

What makes fall colors pop? 🤔🍂

As the season of autumn settles in, we explore in our latest Discover + Share the various factors that give fall its vibrant colors.

Click the link below to read more now! 🔗

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📸 Kristina DeYoung

#MOBOTGarden

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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 5h

Marissa Sandoval and Jasen Liu shared this research in the exhibition; they are a part of the Ramirez Lab at UC Davis that studies the function and evolution of chemical signaling in orchid bees (and other organisms) and plants. More on their work here www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiUe...

Pockets Full of Perfume: How Orchid Bees Attract and Choose Mates

YouTube video by UC Davis College of Biological Sciences

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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 5h

Some of the compounds that male orchid bees use have sharp scents, including eugenol (smells like clove!), p-dimethoxybenzene, myrcene, beta-pinene, limonene, and cineole (eucalyptol). You can sniff all of these scents in the #SmellingTheBouquet exhibition @mobotmuseum.bsky.social Pix: V. Harold

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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 5h

Male orchid bees store & blend these chemicals in pouches on their hind legs, and in the presence of a female, they release their bouquet 👃💐. Perfume preference likely played a role in orchid bee speciation throughout the neotropics as each species has its own unique perfume! Pix: M. Sandoval

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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 5h

#SmellingTheBouquet Unlike most other insects, male orchid bees (Euglossa dilemma) do not internally synthesize their own mating compounds (pheromones). Instead they collect them from the environment: oils from orchids (of course!), wood, fungus, and feces. Pix: M. Sandoval

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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you for this wonderful post @flannerm.bsky.social 👃💐

flannerm.bsky.social @flannerm.bsky.social · 5d

Post from Herbarium World on Smelling the Bouquet, an exhibit at the Missouri Botanical Gardens Sachs Museum herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/d... @mobotmuseum.bsky.social

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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 15d

Join us for the final event of the #SmellingTheBouquet Sachs Museum Performance Series on Oct. 11!

Explore scents and poetry with poet Devin Johnston in two performances at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Free with Garden admission. Sponsored by Nancy Ridenour.

www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/sachs-museum...

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 15d

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the spring, who reaps a harvest in the autumn.” — B.C. Forbes🍂

Autumn is starting to show its colors in the 📍Kemper gardens! Take a peaceful stroll through the area on your next Garden visit.

📸 Nathan Kwarta

#MOBOTGarden

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worldfloraonline.bsky.social @worldfloraonline.bsky.social · 14d

Happy World Coffee Day! WFO is looking for a coffee expert, and we don’t mean your local barista.
We want to form a Taxonomic Expert Network (TEN) for Rubiaceae, the coffee and quinine family. Swipe through to learn more about TENS, and send your favorite rubiaceae experts our way!

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Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social · 12d

Day 1️⃣ of Best of Missouri Market® 2025 is here! 🍁

Prior to your arrival, please review our parking guidelines and tips! ⏭️

To learn more about Best of Missouri Market®, please visit the link here: buff.ly/rt4VkWr

📸 Nathan Kwarta, Sundos Schneider

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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 15d

@nichecanada.bsky.social thanks so much for reposting! 👃💐

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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 15d

Join us for the final event of the #SmellingTheBouquet Sachs Museum Performance Series on Oct. 11!

Explore scents and poetry with poet Devin Johnston in two performances at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Free with Garden admission. Sponsored by Nancy Ridenour.

www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/sachs-museum...

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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 19d

@moopellegrini.bsky.social thanks for the repost!

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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 20d

@peterrabbitt.bsky.social thanks for the reposts!

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Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · 21d

Just visited a super sweet endangered species public mural project in Grand Rapids. Each species done by a local artist and there's a QR code for local range maps and conversation actions on the placards. www.pleasantpeninsula.org/2025-species

Highway underpass with murals of different species

Northern long ear bat mural in the style of a woven blanket

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PM Delaux @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social · 23d

A milestone for plant genomics just out @natgenet.nature.com

130 bryophyte genomes!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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.

www.nature.com

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 21d

Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage.

Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...

Freedom and Sharing at the Internet Archive Europe

On Friday, in a narrow, cream-painted 17th-century row house facing a wide canal bathed in golden light, the Internet Archive Europe celebrated the opening of its new headquarters in Amsterdam. Around...

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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 21d

@cygnusplantxray.bsky.social @kellouise.bsky.social @rantycat.bsky.social @peterrabbitt.bsky.social @rajbhagwandin9.bsky.social thanks so much for the reposts 👃💐

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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 21d

thank you for sharing! 👃💐

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State of St. Louis @stateofstlouis.bsky.social · 21d

11 am and 1 pm 🎶 performances this Saturday at @mobotgarden.bsky.social

Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · Aug 20

Have you ever experienced scents through sounds? @mobotmuseum.bsky.social & Mezzo Soprano Benedetta Orsi (together with St. Louis Womens Chorale) will take you on a captivating journey through scents and essences in classical music. www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/sachs-museum...

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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 22d

Dr. Carlsen is working on a project that will provide the first comprehensive characterization of floral scent diversity and variation across the genus Anthurium. The discovery of new chemical compounds in Anthurium scents could potentially lead to innovation in the perfume industry.

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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 22d

The live collections @mobotgarden.bsky.social offer myriad opportunities to learn more about plants. Dr. Mónica Carlsen shared her botanical scent research in #SmellingTheBouquet @mobotmuseum.bsky.social. She conducted headspace/scent trapping to gather data about the variety of tropical plants.

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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 22d

@mjm314.bsky.social thanks for the repost!

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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 22d

@lmitch.bsky.social thank you so much for the repost! 👃💐

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