John Schaefer @jschaef3r
History of Science + Plant Humanities | U of Cambridge + Kew Gardens 🌿 Joined June 2021-
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I am super excited that one of the most interesting finding in my lab was published in @NatureMicrobiol !! Have you heard about the fungus that helps carnivorous plants digest insects? 🐜🍃
Happy Halloween! 👻 Some truly spook-tacular pumpkin artistry on display here from #Fulbright Scholars @va_gilliland, Camille Sicangco and @jschaef3r 🎃 #PumpkinCarving @FulbrightPrgrm
Happy #FantasticFloraFriday! Warning to any insects reading about today's plant: try not to get too close. For more predatory plants, visit fantasticflora.online.
So honoured to receive this recognition for my essay on killer orchid fiction! 🌺🔪Excited to see all three of these essays up on SUSPECT in November
Indigenous knowledge of the corpse lily has seldom been acknowledged, yet it remains vitally important for all botanists who seek to better understand this rarity of the natural world. From the #PlantHumanities Lab at @DumbartonOaks: bit.ly/3QUB9Mb
The formidable size and relative scarcity of corpse lily plants and their “aromatic” flowers have made them a focus of the ecotourism industry. From the #PlantHumanities Lab at @DumbartonOaks: bit.ly/3QUB9Mb
With some 30 species scattered throughout Southeast Asia, the parasitic genus Rafflesia boasts the largest flowers of any plant in the world. It may also boast the smelliest flower of any plant in the world. From the #PlantHumanities Lab @DumbartonOaks: bit.ly/3QUB9Mb
The survival of the corpse lily relies on an exclusive parasitic relationship with a woody vine in the grape family. From the #PlantHumanities Lab at @DumbartonOaks: bit.ly/3QUB9Mb
The story of the Venus flytrap, "Queen of the Carnivorous Plants," highlights transatlantic networks of correspondence and specimen exchange critical to #EarlyModern botany and terrifying delights the plant has inspired. New from the #PlantHumanities Lab: ow.ly/c5lx50J3hjf
The murderous habits of the sundew. bit.ly/3vJFY1A
Sundews, alongside other meat-eating denizens of the plant kingdom like pitcher plants and the Venus flytrap, have long occupied a special place in botanical popular culture. bit.ly/3vJFY1A
At one time, Charles Darwin cared more about the sundew “than the origin of all the species in the world.” bit.ly/3vJFY1A
With nearly 200 species found in the wild on every continent but Antarctica, sundews have long been integrated into the knowledge systems of Indigenous peoples. bit.ly/3vJFY1A
The first published image of the sundew (or any carnivorous plant for that matter) appeared in 1554, in Rembert Dodoens’s herbal Crüÿdeboeck. bit.ly/3vJFY1A
New on the blog: "From Poetry to Pulp Fiction: Carnivorous Plants in Popular Culture" ➡️s.si.edu/3hJf83w 📷: Selected images from Insectivorous Plants on display in Darwin’s greenhouse. Photo credit: John Schaefer.
New on the blog: "Flytraps, Sundews, and Pitchers: Discovering the Carnivorous Plants of BHL" s.si.edu/3nNd5PJ 📷: Pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea), Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), Sundew (Drosera capensis). Photo credit: John Schaefer.
For #NationalInternDay, we hear from John Schaefer, our Digital #PlantHumanities Intern! John is a senior in @HarvardHistSci focusing on evolutionary biology and interested in the history of botany, botanic gardens, scientific correspondence networks, and education.
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