Plant Cuttings
Mammoth news: Bees help plants
What! That’s news?? Surely everybody knows that many plants are pollinated by bees? Hopefully, yes, but this item is not about that well-known plant-
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Book reviewing: A cautionary tale of conifers
Conifers of the World: The Complete Reference by James Eckenwalder, 2009, reprinted 2013*. Timber Press Inc. This is not the book appraisal I was hoping to
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Plant happiness equation: People + Trees = :)
As a confirmed botanophile, I neither need to be told nor reminded that trees – and plants more generally – make one happy. But I also acknowledge that
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How a microbe moulded mankind
The Rise of Yeast: How the sugar fungus shaped civilization by Nicholas P. Money, 2018. Oxford University Press. I am a Botanist: All aspects of plants
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How fungi oxygenated the Earth
Now that’s an eye-catching headline, isn’t it? The thought of mushrooms and toadstools – that famously don’t produce oxygen, unlike green plants with
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The hyperactive heavy metal band
It has been said that humans try to understand plants for two reasons: Either to kill them better – e.g. if they are considered to be
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Flying insects plummet
Where have all the flower-pollinating insects have gone?
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Brand new 3.7 billion years old stromatolites
One of the most ancient forms of life on the planet might be more common than we thought.
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Botany global … and local
You can help save the planet with a tweet.
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Coeliacs, snakebites and the perils of apricots…
Nigel Chaffey continues his exploration of the unexpected health benefits of some foods.
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Sore diners, cycads and birds…
… and now to … dinosaurs (!). Dinosaurs? Well, we did say at the outset of this mini series of articles that ‘seeds and animals’ was a very old
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Meet the meat-munching plants
Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, ecology, and evolution edited by Aaron Ellison and Lubomír Adamec, 2017. Oxford University Press. Famously, Charles Darwin’s opinion of the Venus fly-