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Associate Professor of Biology at Oxford University | Deputy Director of Oxford Botanic Garden | Artist | Author | Insta: @IllustratingBotanist | Views mine

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Rafflesia hasseltii: a plant seen more by tigers than people. Watching this flower open by night was the closest thing to magic:

Rafflesia hasseltii: a plant seen more by tigers than people. Watching this flower open by night was the closest thing to magic:

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Rafflesia arnoldii, the world's largest flower, smells of rotting meat to attract pollinating flies. And this one today was humming!

Rafflesia arnoldii, the world's largest flower, smells of rotting meat to attract pollinating flies. And this one today was humming!

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The floating leaves of the mosaic plant (Ludwigia sedioides) form self-assembling rafts of diamonds that slowly conquer the water:

The floating leaves of the mosaic plant (Ludwigia sedioides) form self-assembling rafts of diamonds that slowly conquer the water:

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A life-changing encounter in Sumatra: Rafflesia hasseltii grows in just a few remote, tiger-patrolled rainforests, accessible only under permit and seen by few. We trekked day and night to find it, and look what happened when we did:
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A life-changing encounter in Sumatra: Rafflesia hasseltii grows in just a few remote, tiger-patrolled rainforests, accessible only under permit and seen by few. We trekked day and night to find it, and look what happened when we did:

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2,365,097 views • 7 months ago

Using applied maths, we have just decoded one of the most rapid motions in the plant kingdom: the squirting cucumber. Published today in PNAS, our work reveals how the stem stiffens to optimise the angle at which the fruit squirts its seeds in a jet of slime:
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Using applied maths, we have just decoded one of the most rapid motions in the plant kingdom: the squirting cucumber. Published today in PNAS, our work reveals how the stem stiffens to optimise the angle at which the fruit squirts its seeds in a jet of slime:

Chris Thorogood

58,330 views • 1 year ago

Turning over a fern leaf reveals an astonishing stencilled constellation of spores:
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Turning over a fern leaf reveals an astonishing stencilled constellation of spores:

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24,350 views • 11 months ago

Nepenthes burbidgeae is also known as 'the painted pitcher plant'; perhaps that's why I always seem to be painting it. (Oils, completed September 2019).
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Nepenthes burbidgeae is also known as 'the painted pitcher plant'; perhaps that's why I always seem to be painting it. (Oils, completed September 2019).

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20,244 views • 2 years ago

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