Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison

Agave americana growing through greenhouse roof in Leicester Botanic Gardens
Plants & People

Great Escapes – continued

There is another way to think of plant escapes: when I lived at Kew, there was a story about ‘bid for freedom of plants from Kew’ – Giant Hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum), growing up to 7m tall, had been found in a neighbourhood garden. The Evening Standard had a memorable cartoon of it climbing the Kew wall and boarding […]

Brazilian Cerrado Vegetation
Ecosystems

Foresight, hindsight and biodiversity

I was looking at the downloads of papers from Annals of Botany over the last year. In the top ten of most downloaded papers was one from 1997 (certainly when I relied on photocopiers rather than PDFs). It was on the Brazilian cerrado vegetation and threats to its biodiversity. I expect this was a paper […]

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