Nigel Chaffey
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I am a Botanist and former Senior Lecturer in Botany at Bath Spa University (Bath, near Bristol, UK). As News Editor for the Annals of Botany I contributed the monthly Plant Cuttings column to that in
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Plants: Animated, dynamic, and mobile(!)
How do plants travel? A new book explains.
Do we need evidence in books about plants?
Without a source are facts really facts, or just factoids?
Tales of 100 trees
A new book explores how trees have changed the way we live.
Can’t Botanists agree on common names..?
A rose by any other name… would be incorrectly described.
Tales of tea, still stirring emotions in 2020
Tea leaves might not predict the future, but they have a powerful connection to our past.
Koalas up a gum tree, but having the last laugh..?
Koalas break the local stereotype by being Australians who don’t drink. Or so it was thought.
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