The flower, first discovered over 150 years ago, has yielded new clues from its pollen.
Tag - fossils
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Dale Maylea
Cyanobacteria: Good week, or bad week..? Part III
This is the third of our quartet of posts looking at the newsworthy world of the blue-greens. Image: David Fuchs / Wikipedia Asteroids, bad for dinosaurs, but good for cyanobacteria? This really good news for...
Nigel Chaffey
Fossil fruits reveal Late Cretaceous rise of Cornales, the dogwood order
The asterids (>80 000 living species) appear in the fossil record with considerable diversity during the Late Cretaceous (~90 Ma) and are strongly represented by Cornales (order of dogwoods). These early cornaleans have...
Alex Assiry
Plants and Pinatubo, Prestahnukur, Popocatépetl…
Plants are generally sessile organisms that, unlike their puny animal ‘cousins’, can’t get up and run away if the environment is not to their liking. Botanicals by-and-large put up and shut up. Accordingly, that...
Cause for optimism (maybe not…)
There’s an insufficiency of people to grow the new crops that aren’t being identified because of the dearth of plant taxonomists. Where will it all end..?
Junior science: that shrinking feeling…
We often bemoan the fact that we know neither whither nor whence will come the next generation of plant scientists (e.g. Sinéad Drea). Well, here’s an inspiring tale from the USA that might just give part of the answer...
Cretaceous flowers of Ericales
The rapid increase in knowledge of the fossil record of angiosperms in the past 30 years has provided important evidence on the antiquity of different lineages. Schönenberger et al. add to the fossil record of asterids...
botanyone
Phytophoenixism
In biology, matters are rarely either good or bad; oftentimes they may be both at once (albeit usually for different organisms). Take for instance hydrogen cyanide, which is widely regarded to be rather bad since it is...
Cerrado ecosystems and the Meskal Daisy on the cover
The third in a series of videoblogs from AoBBlog.com about the background pictures used on Annals of Botany covers. The Youtube link is here, and it is best watched in HD/1080p resolution. An outline of the text is...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
Rocks versus Clocks
What happened 670 million years ago? Can’t remember? Doesn’t matter, that’s why we have palaeobotanists. Palaeobotanists that is whose science it seems has been much under-appreciated amidst the high expectations, hope...
