Timothy Martin
@treephys.bsky.social
Tree Ecophysiology Professor, University of Florida School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences. Trees, forests, forestry. Posts do not represent my employer.
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Huge baldcypress (*Taxodium distichum*) doing its fall thing in northern Florida.
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Huge baldcypress (*Taxodium distichum*) doing its fall thing in northern Florida.
Fog in the flatwoods.
October 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Fog in the flatwoods.
Hitchhiker on one of the lab plants this morning.
September 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Hitchhiker on one of the lab plants this morning.
Can't get enough of these fox squirrels.
September 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Can't get enough of these fox squirrels.
8 weeks post-fire, longleaf pine / wiregrass, north Florida.
August 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
8 weeks post-fire, longleaf pine / wiregrass, north Florida.
1 minute time lapse of a-ci curve measurement on wiregrass (*Aristida beyrichiana*) in north Florida.
August 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
1 minute time lapse of a-ci curve measurement on wiregrass (*Aristida beyrichiana*) in north Florida.
Rainbow river, Florida.
August 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Rainbow river, Florida.
Students in my summer natural resources class with the Florida champion longleaf pine (*Pinus palustris*). On private property near Newberry, Florida. Students choose from field trips focused on private land management, ecosystem services, invasive species management, and ecosystem restoration.
July 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Students in my summer natural resources class with the Florida champion longleaf pine (*Pinus palustris*). On private property near Newberry, Florida. Students choose from field trips focused on private land management, ecosystem services, invasive species management, and ecosystem restoration.
A largish prey animal inside a larger diamondback rattlesnake. North Florida flatwoods.
July 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
A largish prey animal inside a larger diamondback rattlesnake. North Florida flatwoods.
Find the fox squirrel.
July 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Find the fox squirrel.
Longleaf pine (*P. palustris*) / slash pine (*P. elliottii*) stand on a spodosol in N. Florida. Understory primarily wiregrass (*Aristida beyrichiana*), saw palmetto (*Serenoa repens*), gallberry (*Ilex glabra*). Prescribed fire every other year, it will burn again this summer.
July 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Longleaf pine (*P. palustris*) / slash pine (*P. elliottii*) stand on a spodosol in N. Florida. Understory primarily wiregrass (*Aristida beyrichiana*), saw palmetto (*Serenoa repens*), gallberry (*Ilex glabra*). Prescribed fire every other year, it will burn again this summer.
Scallop eyeing me after being pulled out of the Gulf of Mexico.
June 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Scallop eyeing me after being pulled out of the Gulf of Mexico.
About 30 minutes post- prescribed fire. Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) in northern Florida.
June 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
About 30 minutes post- prescribed fire. Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) in northern Florida.
Subterranean holiday: Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky.
June 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Subterranean holiday: Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky.
Candyroot,*Polygala nana*. Northern Florida flatwoods. Thanks to @ecologyonfire.bsky.social for ID. If it doesn't have bark, I'm clueless.
May 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Candyroot,*Polygala nana*. Northern Florida flatwoods. Thanks to @ecologyonfire.bsky.social for ID. If it doesn't have bark, I'm clueless.
I was surprised to find that a mountain laurel grows in Florida flatwoods, definitely NOT in the mountains! *Kalmia hirsuta*, hairy mountain-laurel.
May 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I was surprised to find that a mountain laurel grows in Florida flatwoods, definitely NOT in the mountains! *Kalmia hirsuta*, hairy mountain-laurel.
The headliner was Lowcut Connie. Great show, super engaged with the crowd.
May 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The headliner was Lowcut Connie. Great show, super engaged with the crowd.
Attended concert 2.5 hours away from campus with a colleague, opening act was introduced as being from Gainesville. Thought I recognized bassist, turns out she was one of our students. Small world!
May 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Attended concert 2.5 hours away from campus with a colleague, opening act was introduced as being from Gainesville. Thought I recognized bassist, turns out she was one of our students. Small world!
Spring primary growth in N. Florida. These 'candles' are expanding embryonic needles formed last fall in overwintered in buds. In this species (longleaf pine), there is generally only one growth cycle. Other southern pines may undergo multiple cycles in a year.
April 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Spring primary growth in N. Florida. These 'candles' are expanding embryonic needles formed last fall in overwintered in buds. In this species (longleaf pine), there is generally only one growth cycle. Other southern pines may undergo multiple cycles in a year.
Five lined skink on my porch in northern Florida.
April 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Five lined skink on my porch in northern Florida.
"House" group on Congress trail, Sequoia National Park.
April 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
"House" group on Congress trail, Sequoia National Park.
Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) and giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) survivors of the 2021 fire in Sequoia National Park.
April 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) and giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) survivors of the 2021 fire in Sequoia National Park.
My irritated neighbor.
April 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My irritated neighbor.
Fusiform rust (Cronartium quercuum) gall on longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) releasing aesciospores. These spores will infect young oak leaves, which will eventually release basidiospores, which can infect pines.
March 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Fusiform rust (Cronartium quercuum) gall on longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) releasing aesciospores. These spores will infect young oak leaves, which will eventually release basidiospores, which can infect pines.
Women's crosscut competitors at this year's Association of Southern Forestry Club's annual timber sports event.
March 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Women's crosscut competitors at this year's Association of Southern Forestry Club's annual timber sports event.