Palm by Fred Gray 2018. Reaktion Books Ltd. Fred Gray’s Palm [hereafter referred to as … Palm] is the second title in Reaktion Books’ Botanical series I’ve reviewed. The first was Stephen Harris’ Sunflowers, a super...
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Nigel Chaffey
Dragons, coconuts and skyscrapers…
Botanists aren't always genetic engineers. This week Nigel Chaffey finds some have branched out into civil engineering.
Presence of coconuts in Panama pre-Columbus (Viewpoint)
Baudouin et al. present new findings regarding the long-standing debate about the existence of coconut in Panama in pre-Columbian times.
botanyone
Yes, but WHY?
On a related ‘down-under’ theme to my previous posting re scarecrows(!), I pose this question: Just because we can, does that mean we should? After all, they do say that the devil makes work for idle hands. Well...
Phylogeny of arecoid palms
The Arecoideae is the largest, most diverse and most economically important palm subfamily and yet relationships within the group are poorly understood. Baker et al. collect nuclear DNA sequence data for the low-copy...
