Last year we ran our first #AdventBotany challenge – @DrMGoesWild and @botanyRNG writing an account each day (with some help from @DawnBazeley and others) through advent of plants associated with Christmas. This year, with help from many more colleagues on Twitter we are about to launch an entirely new 25 plants of advent. Here is a reprise of last year’s calendar. All new species for 2015!
Day 1 – A selection of Hedera helix leaves from a single plant showing adult and juvenile forms
Day 2 – Viscum album in Lyte’s Herball of 1578
Day 3 – Holly Ilex spp.
Day 4 – Gold – A tiny test block of cold press paper on fibreboard, used to create a miniature for varnish testing
Day 5 – Frankincense
Day 6 – Samples of Myrrh along with bark of Commiphora myrrah
Day 7 – Almonds, Prunus dulcis, the almond
Day 8 – Cranberry fruit (c) Jonathan Mitchley
Day 9 – Dogwood, Cornus sericea
Day 10 – Mulled wine
Day 11 – The Christmas rose, Helleborus niger
Day 12 – The curious cone like inflorescences of Zingiber officinale
Day 13 – Paper
Day 14 – String
Day 15 – Christmas tree, Young tree of Abies pinsapo (Spanish fir) in the Sierra de Gracelema
Day 16 – Chocolate & Cocoa
Day 17 – Raisins, Currants & Sultanas
Day 18 – Hippeastrum x johnsonii illustration by Priscilla Susan Bury
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