Plant Cuttings
The increasingly fluid Silk Road
What would you imagine was carried along the Silk Road(s), that ancient route that connected the far-East to the near-East and Europe? Silks?
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Sustainable trees…
Not much of a story? Aren’t all trees sustainable [“avoiding depletion of natural resources”; “capable of being maintained at a steady level without exhausting natural
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Non-insect-eating insectivorous plant
Probably the one thing one could guess about an insectivorous plant is that it ‘eats’ insects. Take for example one of the most iconic entomophagous botanics
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Octulose, about to get bigger?
What is octulose? And why is it about to be bigger? Well, according to Qingwei Zhang and Dorothea Bartels, it’s a “forgotten metabolite”. Yes, but
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Talking Tolkien and plants
Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium by Walter S. Judd and Graham A. Judd, 2017. OUP It’s hard to
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Roots create … rock
The more I learn about roots, the more amazing they appear. Not only do they provide essential support for, and anchorage of, the aerial, above-ground,
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Plants that … KILL!
Plants that kill: A natural history of the world’s most poisonous plants by Elizabeth Dauncey and Sonny Larsson, 2018. Kew Publishing. When we think of
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How much do you know about … blowguns?
Not much I suspect. And it’s probably not that important that any of us do in the so-called developed world where we don’t
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Are intelligent plants out of this world?
Semiosis by Sue Burke, 2018. Tor Books. First, two ‘spoiler alerts’ *. One, this book views plants in a much more enlightened way than those of a
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Gardens, truly the best medicine!
It is sometimes claimed that laughter is the best medicine. Joking apart, it’s probably better documented, and arguably more evidence-based [e.g. The King’
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A bumper crop of fungi
The Fungal Kingdom, edited by Joseph Heitman, Barbara J. Howlett, Pedro W. Crous, Eva H. Stukenbrock, Timothy Y. James and Neil A. R. Gow, 2018. American
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Introducing The Global Flora
At Cuttings HQ we love a new botany journal – even if it’s technically described as a serial. So, we were really pleased to find out