The Week in Botany August 11, 2025
This week, Juliane Ishida on her work with parasitic plants, how poor timing can spur flower evolution and a carnivorous plant that will you have your hand off, if you have tiny hands.
This week, Juliane Ishida on her work with parasitic plants, how poor timing can spur flower evolution and a carnivorous plant that will you have your hand off, if you have tiny hands.
This week we have a plant that's gone its own way, how you can know a tree as an individual and Duarte Figueiredo on the hidden complexity of plant biology.
This week we have a project to spotlight women's role in botany, an interview with Ana Bedoya and her work on aquatic plants, and why flowers are about more than pollinators.
This week we have gossip from the rhizosphere, why eating melons takes a lot of aardvark, a plant that caters to different pollinators at different times, and more.
This week, there's a lot of heat with tropical plants, dead plants that lived in cooler climates and a sweet way for plants to sense heat.
This week, nectar with colour, plants with none, how small differences foster biodiversity and small gardens that bring us together.
This week: Rocío Deanna on the importance of staying curious, the switch to agriculture in the Andes was neither fast nor furious, how caterpillars can be so injurious, and more...
This week, extreme weather in the Amazon, extreme control of agriculture, David Alors on the challenges of expeditions, and more...
This week, we have primroses in the rough, plants growing tough, midnight science in the botany lab, and more.
This week, the importance of passion in plant science, mass extinctions that aren't, the surprising complexity of your garden and more...
The plant whose drinking habit fooled botanists for decades, chaos inside orderly cells, and more...
A plant that is happiest when attacking others, a petal that almost plays pinball with pollen, the maths of how plants shape your mood and more...
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