🌿 A new banana species, Musa dulongjiangensis, has been identified as endemic to Yunnan Province in southwestern China. 👉 Learn more: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.280.196585

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Roadsideflora at full speed 😁 Senecio inaequidens #botany #wildflowers

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A defining feature of Agave and its kin—albeit invisible to the naked eye—is the bimodal karyotype: The complement of chromosomes includes both small & large chromosomes. Top: karyotype of A. tequilana ‘Azul’. Bottom 📷: Agave ovatifolia ‘Fosty Blue’. #Agave #Asparagaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

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News: millions of years ago, hybridization gave rise to a tetraploid #fish with two distinct parental subgenomes & this is fascinating: as young barbels develop, they switch from using opsins from one subgenome as larvae to those from the other as adults, fine-tuning their colour #vision! 👁️🌈.

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I spent this week helping translocate some animals you have probably never heard of: Vodjvodina Blind Mole-Rats. There are fewer than 1,000 left: ploughing destroys their habitat. They are not moles, not rats, but are blind! They live 20+ years and need your help! gofund.me/ce3134007. Pls share.

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