You can listen to this page as an audio file. Phytochemistry of Australia’s Tropical Rainforest: Medicinal potential of ancient plants by Cheryll J Williams, 2021. CSIRO Publishing/CABI. It is often remarked that...
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Nigel Chaffey
A new edition of an iconic ethnobotany text
Plants, People, and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany, 2nd edition by Michael J Balick and Paul Alan Cox 2021. CRC Press Some books have an iconic status in their field. Take, for example, Balick and Cox’s 1996/7...
Octulose, about to get bigger?
What is octulose? And why is it about to be bigger? Well, according to Qingwei Zhang and Dorothea Bartels, it’s a “forgotten metabolite”. Yes, but what is it? Octulose is an 8-carbon sugar that occurs in plants...
Money doesn’t grow on trees..?
The opioid analgesic 'Tramadol' is found to occur naturally in the root bark of the sub-Saharan shrub Nauclea latifoli
