Flora and Friends – Your botanical cup of tea

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Learn more about my guests Hanna Hodacs and Annika Windahl Pontén at the Uppsala university website.

Find Hanna's book Silk and Tea in the North

Discover the Intoxicating Spaces project.

Visit the Linné museum or Linné Hammarby in Uppsala

Take a dive into the old trade catalogues that Hanna recommended.

Visit the associated blogpost to this episode for a written summary of the interview and some pictures.

Follow Amanda on Instagram @Amanda.Selinder

Amanda's website

The project page showing how Amanda works with biological pigments

Do you want to know more about Flora-L Design and how this friendship let us to create textiles with patterns from plants under the microscope? Read more about us here

Join the challenge and submit your guess what our mystery plant is before the end of the challenge on December 20th 23:59 CET. Submit your answer here Common names in Swedish/English/French or German or even latin names all count in our challenge!

Among all right answers we will draw three winners: one for an apron, one for a cushion cover and one for a Flora-L totebag. You pick among the plant microscopy design available in our webshop if you win.

Good luck!

Join the challenge and submit your answer before the end of the challenge on December 20th. In our last episode for this year which will be released on December 22nd we’ll draw three winners: one for an apron, one for a cushion cover and one for a Flora-L totebag. Check our web shop so you can prepare your design wish if you are the lucky one to win (designs are subject to availability)!

Submit your answer here Common names in Swedish/English/French or German or even latin names all count in our challenge!

Good luck!

See Stephen's photographs.

Watch their movie Planet Fungi.

Watch mushroom timelapse videos and interview with Stephen on the Planet Fungi youtube channel.

Find Planet fungi on Instagram.

Their book recommendation by M. Sheldrake Entangled life.

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See Stephen's photographs.

Watch their movie Planet Fungi.

Watch mushroom timelapse videos and interview with Stephen on the Planet Fungi youtube channel.

Find Planet fungi on Instagram.

Subscribe to our newsletter for updates on future episodes.

For non Swedish-speaking listeners I recommend the English recent lichen episode on the FloraFunga podcast in which hostess Kaitlyn interviews Steven Leavitt and Lili from the Lichenology Lab at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, USA about their research on lichens.

Resources in Swedish recommended by Janolof:

• Janolof Hermansson with Lennart Bratt, Bengt Oldhammer, Tomas Ljung, Rolf Lundqvist Hotade och sällsynta växter i Dalarna - Lavar och mossor

• Svante Hultengren, Roland Moberg Lavar-en fältguide

• Johan Nitare Skyddvärd skog: naturvårdsarter och andra kriterier för naturvärdesbedömning

Further reading in English

• Irwin Brodo "Lichens of North America"

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Judith refers to a number of research findings in this podcast episode that you can find on the linked blogpost to this episode.

To learn more about controlled forest burning and visually experience the operation, watch this video about the Life Taiga project.

In our blogpost you will find links to sites with nature trails through areas where controlled burning has been used.

Find our blogpost associated to this podcast for an English transcript of the interview and our favourite forest associated microscopy designs.

Read more about Cornelia and book a forest bathing tour with her here

Cornelia recommended two books for those who want to read more about trees and the forest: D. G. Haskell's The Songs of Trees P. Wohlleben's The Hidden Life of Trees Y. Miyazaki's Shinrin Yoku

The latter book was also discussed in the plant book club. If you want to hear our critical and appreciative voices about the book, head over to the plant book club podcast.

Would you like to ask questions to our podcast interview guests? Reach out to us through our contact form to let us know which questions related to our forests burn on your heart.

Follow us on Instagram or Facebook and watch out for the post where we announce new interviews guest and ask your questions there.

Every podcast episode is accompanied by a blog-post that you find here.

To learn more about the Flora-L team visit and see how the process of microscopy and pattern making can look like, visit the blogpost associated to this podcast episode.

Our friend Kaitlyn kindly provided a teaser to her Flora Funga podcast that we invite you to discover over our own summer break for more fascination about plants and their interaction with fungi.

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Visit our blogpost for pictures of Laurence artwork and some Fritillaria microscopy art by Flora-L Design.

A wealth of Fritillaria resources can be found on Laurence's page Fritillaria icones.

The podcast picture shows one of Laurence's most recent composite fritillaria artworks.

Fritillaria Icones

Blogpost belonging to this episode

Visit the associated blogpost and the videos that Bob shared with us on the subgenera of Fritillaria and his travel to Anatolia.

The Fritillaria Group webpage

The Fritillaria Group facebook page

Book Growing bulbs by Brian Mathew

Resources shared in the podcast

Fritillaria Icones Website for botanical photographic material of fritillaries

University of Warsaw botanic garden

Katarzyna Roguz contact

Visit the blogpost belonging to this episodes with photographs of F. meleagris and microscopy images.

More about Håkan Rydin's research can be found here.

Håkan's tips for learning more: The virtual flora established by the The Swedish Museum of Natural History. Artportalen for finding a place where Fritillaria meleagris or other plants have been discovered close to your location (if in Sweden)

Judith's tips for a Fritilaria visit when you are at the West coast of Sweden is the botanical garden of Gothenburg.

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook or through our newsletter to discover Fritillaria meleagris under the microscope and the patterns that we are creating from it.

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Learn more about the creative plant biologists at Flora-L Design.

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