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A study comparing descriptive writing with botanical drawing has found that both methods aid learning about taxonomy. However, drawing subjects captured more morphological information.
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It’s a belated present, the PDF of the handout we’ve been using on stands for Botany One.
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Are you getting the hazelnuts you pay for? How do you know? A new technique offers an alternative to subjective tests like flavour.
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Betteridge’s law of headlines states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” But some scientists in France have tested Sarracenia to find the answer is more like ‘not yet’.
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Plants brought in by gardeners for horticultural reasons can turn invasive. Research published by an international team from the US, Europe and China finds that climate change could increase the competitiveness of non-naturalized species.
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Mistletoe is said to ward off evil, but it cannot ward off climate change. However, a new study from Spain shows it might be able to escape the worst for a while.
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Some spiders go after the same prey that pitcher plants want. What happens when the two compete?
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What happens when a flower is eaten or pollinated? A study in the American Journal of Botany shows one interaction can impact in an unexpected way on another.
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What is it that causes a virus to replicate? A team studying Coccolithovirus in algae found light was a crucial element in reproduction.
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The Venus Fly Trap is not the only carnivorous plant that snaps, but you’re much less likely to see Aldrovanda vesiculosa, even though it can live around the world.
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Normally you would expect organs to change across evolutionary time. However, this is not always the case, and some clades can be species-rich, but still have very similar flowers.
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We know that plants produce volatile organic compounds (VOCs) for a variety of reasons. One obvious example is a perfume to attract pollinators, but they’re