Seeds are the main resource for growing plants to restore degraded areas. But are there enough seeds of wild species to meet the global demand?
Tag - Plant Facts
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How you can use online herbaria to learn about plants
As part of Plant Facts Week (#PlantFactsWeek🌱) we present this post about online herbaria and the great things you can learn about plants and get involved in a citizen science project from Louise Marsh...
Amborella trichopoda helps reveal features of the first flowering plants
It's difficult to peer into the past to see the first flowering plant, but Charlie Scutt shows how an ancestor in the modern-era provides some clues as to what it looked like.
Black-grass: the farmer’s nemesis
Visit an arable farm in England, particularly in its central and Southern parts, and ask the farmer what their number one problem is on their farm. They will most likely tell you it is black-grass.
Laura Crook
Facts, alternative facts and ‘Plant Facts Week’
For Joe Friday, it was enough to ask for “just the facts, ma’am.”* But do the facts help science communication?
Anne Osterrieder