New paper by Prof. Jeff Ollerton - @[email protected] et al provides an unparalleled description of #pollination systems #diversity in a large plant family. Nicely highlights evolutionary transitions amongst #pollinator classes doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc… #phylogeny #biogeography #fly @botanyone #Apocynaceae

Here’s a link to a recent interview about plant- #pollinator interactions and fly pollination in the #Apocynaceae with the In Defense of Plants podcast: indefenseofplants.com/podcast/2018/8… In Defense of Plants Dr Erica McAlister @milkweedguy Tatyana Livshultz Alessandro Rapini David Goyder

A good press officer can catapult scientific discoveries into the media spotlight. robertakwok offers some recommendations on how to promote your work go.nature.com/2vyEB7x

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Pararistolochia triactina - arrived as a young plant from Bonn Botanic Gardens in 2013 Cam Botanic Garden has finally flowered! It’s a cauliflorus - flowering from its stem - climber from West Africa - and its sister spp. P. goldieana is the largest flower on the African continent #flies

Making excellent progress on the Okavango collection! #GeoPotts #Womenofkovsies

The Hibiscus Team is looking for a new post-doc! If you like patterns & cool plants and are up for a challenge then you're just what we're looking for 😀 More info can be found here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/18539/

So this is one of the things I've been up to for the last 12 months: trying to get to grips with the #biodiversity of plant-pollinator interactions in one of the largest families of flowering plants. And coordinating 74 co-authors at the same time..... jeffollerton.wordpress.com/2018/08/21/the…

Richard and Rico's paper "Volumetric finite-element modelling of biological growth" describing a key tool for developing hypotheses for plant morphogenesis is out today! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… John Innes Centre

Postdoc with me and Webb Lab please retweet

The legendary Man-Eating Tree of Madagascar! 😲

Need something to keep busy with at home? Have a go at cataloguing our microscope slides and contribute to the museum's database. Please RT zooniverse.org/projects/mzfas… #lockdown #thingstodoathome #museumsfromhome Manchester Museum

You can search all open access content on JSTOR without a login - there's more than 6,000 ebooks and over 150 journals: jstor.org/open/

From Saturday 21 March, Cambridge University Botanic Garden will be opening free of charge, daily, 11am - 3pm. Please see a statement from our Director below or visit our website botanic.cam.ac.uk

Welcome to Day 2 of the Festival of Plants! Today’s focus is horticulture. We’re delighted to bring you tours of the Garden & Glasshouse Range, talks from trainees, kid's windowsill gardening & the opportunity to ask our expert panel for gardening tips. botanic.cam.ac.uk/festival-of-pl…

Loved exploring CUBG during #FoP20!

Thursday is the final day of this year’s Festival of Plants. Focussing on conservation, we will talk about some of the world's most endangered plants & find out what CUBG & other botanic gardens are doing to protect them. Please visit to find out more: tinyurl.com/yawfl4gu

Interested in plant #conservation but not sure how to get involved? Check our list of ideas from using photos to record wildflowers to mapping trees to finding nature's calendar. There's something for everyone Take a look! #FoP20 tinyurl.com/y8cw3omr

Exciting new post doc position to work on lovely Gorteria diffusa with me. Please retweet! Research Associate (Fixed Term) Cambridge University jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/28173/

“I watched attempts by bureaucrats and biologists [botanists not biologists I assume!] to sideline Oxford Uni’s herbarium ...and hamper plant identification. It was a mercy, as administrators now realise, they failed.” FT Weekend #herbarium