Isabella Armour in Botany Thoughts

Jul 13, 2016

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From Medicinal Tea to Crystal Meth

This kind of just looks like a pine bough or a mass of matted grasses, but it is neither. This…

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Isabella Armour in Botany Thoughts

Jul 11, 2016

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Fruit Communication

Do you have any fruit around that you want to ripen faster? Well, just put it in a bag with a ripe banana and let the magic…

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Isabella Armour in Botany Thoughts

Jul 8, 2016

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Tung Tied

Meet the tung tree, also known as Aleurites fordii. If you eat just one seed from this tree, you could die, but it you extract the oil from…

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Isabella Armour in Botany Thoughts

Jul 10, 2016

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Strawberry Suckers

If you’re a strawberry growing in a country in the tropics, you’re probably living out your little strawberry life in a green…

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Isabella Armour in Botany Thoughts

Jul 25, 2016

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Relentless Lentils

Lentils, beans, and peas are all legumes. This means that they are all seeds, also called pulses, that grow in pods and come…

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Isabella Armour in Botany Thoughts

Jul 21, 2016

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Seriously, what are we eating?

It seems like quinoa has become more of a health food buzzword than an actual thing that you eat. What is…

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Isabella Armour in Botany Thoughts

Jul 17, 2016

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Seed Thieves

Imagine with me a 30kg coconut. Outrageous, right? But not if you’re a Lodiocea maldivica, or Coco-de-mer palm tree. These trees have…

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Isabella Armour in Botany Thoughts

Jul 18, 2016

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England as a Coffee Drinking Nation

Many of us think of England as a tea drinking nation, but it was not always that way. To…

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Isabella Armour in Botany Thoughts

Jul 17, 2016

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The Food of Kings

Asparagus is the sort of thing that one can learn to take for granted. Oh, the green spears are at the dinner table once again…

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Isabella Armour in Botany Thoughts

Jul 24, 2016

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A Short Soapberry Story

I keep seeing these plants with orange or red berries everywhere and I just had to figure out what they are.

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These were the top 10 stories published by Botany Thoughts in July of 2016. You can also dive into daily archives for July of 2016 by using the calendar at the top of this page.