Some of my favourite taxa!
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Endemic to Movile Cave (Peștera Movile) outside Mangalia, Romania, a hermetically-sealed ecosystem that has been thus for 5.2 million years with no inputs from the surface. All primary productivity... Más
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An important member of the Archaea that gives salterns, salt lakes and flamingos that live therein their characteristic cerise and red colouration owing to its carotenoid pigments.
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I love Equisetum subgen. Equisetum telmateia - it is my favourite member of the entire class Polypodiopsida. It has been around so very long and is such an interesting plant with a fascinating hist... Más
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My very favourite cultivated flower, Lathyrus sect. Cicercula odoratus, in particular Lathyrus sect. Cicercula odoratus cv. Cupani which was bred from seeds sent to Dr Robert Uvedale (who ran a boa... Más
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The Damask rose (Rosa subgen. Rosa nothosect. Koehneara × damascena) is one of my favourite flowers for its scent and I'm more than slightly addicted to eating things flavoured/scented with attar, ... Más
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One of my favourite things to eat, be that Cynara cardunculus subsp. cardunculus var. altilis - the cardoon, grown for its stems and shoots - or Cynara cardunculus subsp. cardunculus var. scolymus ... Más
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One of the prettiest and yet most-overlooked Pretty Flowers that can be found everywhere. Cymbalaria muralis subsp. muralis is one of my very favourite plants for its tiny, beautiful, flowers that ... Más
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Ipomoea subgen. Ipomoea sect. Pharbitis ser. Pharbitis purpurea is one of my favourite cultivated flowers - the beautiful ultramarine trumpets don't last long but I love seeing them twisted up and ... Más
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The genus Thiobacillus, type genus of the family Thiobacillaceae (which I created) contains 3 species with validly published names as of 2024: Thiobacillus thioparus, Thiobacillus thiophilus and Th... Más
