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🌱🌾🌍🍄🌺🌳 #WordoftheWeek. Many fungi live on live or dead plants. There are many technical terms for parts of fungi. Which is the name of these asexual fungal spores? Question from quarterfinal Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025

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Hispid: with long stiff hairs or bristles. From the Latin ‘hispidus’ meaning bristly. Borage, Borago officinalis. Up to 60cm. Erect, hispid. Basal leaves long-stalked and wrinkled. Upper leaves sessile and with wavy-edge. Leaf-like bracts. Blue flowers up to 2cm across. Dark purple anthers

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Hey hey! This is a Bean Family , Fabaceae, plant! And will be in the “beans for baking” box this winter , box 6, along with the also bean family plant guar gum

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🌱🌾🌍🍄🌿🌳🖌️🪳🌴Gum arabic. Otherwise known as food additive E414 in Europe (I414 in US). Used in food, sweets, candies, ice cream, paints, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, glues, ceramics ... So many things! What is its source? Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 quarterfinal question.

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And then there were four! Reading, Aberdeen, Eden and Plymouth through to the BUC 2025 Semi-finals on 20 August, followed by the 3rd Student Botany festival, ALL BUC 2025 student participants invited, online audience can watch on BUC YouTube Channel and play along! #BUC2025 @bucbotany.bsky.social

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🌱🌾🌍🍄🌺🌳🐝Quarterfinals Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 held this week. All 31 teams can bask in their great performances. Aberdeen, Reading, Eden Project and Plymouth teams have to look forward to semifinals in August. Fern knowledge was a question this week; what is its name?

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A silver birch festooned with parasitic growths in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Claire Stares. #countrydiary #naturewriting

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Only 6.6% of conservation funding goes to plants (and only 0.2% to algae and fungi!!). Almost all goes to vertebrates, especially big well-known ones. Where do people think animals live and what do they eat? Picture with article has 2 rhinoceroses - and thousands of plants!

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A brilliant afternoon watching #BUC2025 quarterfinals! Congrats to all the competitors & thanks to @drmgoeswild.bsky.social @botanyjohninaber.bsky.social & their fab support team. Looking forward to @bucbotany.bsky.social finals & 3rd Student Botany Festival in Cambridge in August: see you there?

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We're through! We did it! @bucbotany.bsky.social was fantastic, another awesome set of questions and a beautiful job from all our Cotyl-Eden team members 💜 Cambridge, here we cooooooooome!

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🌱🌾🌍🍄🌺🌳🐝In final set of questions Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 all the teams could pick out the horticultural tool invention of Comte Antoine-François Bertrand de Molleville - the secateurs. Who is through to semifinal? Reading, Aberdeen, Eden Project and Plymouth!

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🌱🌾🌍🍄🌳🐝Introducing RBGKew in Quarterfinal #BUC2025. Eight teams from UK and Ireland contesting for places in the semifinal in August. Questions asked by Prof Jennifer McElwain, Trinity College Dublin. All loving plants!

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Are you ready for #BUC2025 quarterfinal starting at 2pm today? It's live-streaming on the @bucbotany.bsky.social YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@BotanicalUn... Prepare to be inspired & entertained by 8 teams of botany students competing for a place in the semi-finals!

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🌱🌾🌍🍄🌳🐝Quarterfinal Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 starting NOW! Streaming on YouTube - see the QR code. Good luck to everyone! Streams from 14:00 - around 16:30 GMT 26 Feb, and recorded to see later.

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🌱🌾🌍🍄🌺🌳🐝🪳🧪Enjoy your afternoon with Quarterfinal Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 14:00 GMT our YouTube channel. See 8 great teams play for place in semifinal August. Plant knowledge at its broadest and deepest! Aberdeen, Plymouth, Reading, Kew, Eden, Oxford, Galway, Queen Mary.

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IT IS TODAY! The Quarter Finals of Botanical University Challenge starting 2pm GMT watch on our YouTube Channel! Good luck to our eight plantastic teams! #BUC2025 @bucbotany.bsky.social

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🌱🌾🌍🍄🌺🐝🧪 #WordoftheWeek Question from Round 2 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025. What is a trichome? This is a beautiful example. No picture used in the quiz last week. Quarterfinal starts 14:00 GMT 26 Feb on YouTube. www.youtube.com/@BotanicalUn...

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One of my favourite deep time survivors - the only species in its family.

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🌱🌾🌍🍄🌿🖌️🌺🐝What were questions like in Round 2 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 ? Included plant microscopic anatomy. See the beautiful interior cell arrangements in roots. Quarterfinal Wed 26 February streaming on YouTube from 14:00 GMT.

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🌾🌱🌍🍄🪳🌺🌳🐝🖌️🧪Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 Quarterfinal starts 14:00 GMT Wednesday 26 February. Which 8 teams are in it? Watch the video!

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🌾🌱🌍🍄🌺🌳🧪🐝Quarterfinal Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 questions will be asked by Prof. Jennifer McElwain, 1711 Chair of Botany at Trinity College Dublin's School of Natural Sciences and Director of Trinity Botanic Gardens. @tcddublin.bsky.social

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sharing this for the delightful university team names. I needed that laugh this morning!

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Orchids have existed for 80 million years, but most of their diversity evolved in just the last 5 million! 🌸 Here's a free poster of the most complete Orchid Tree of Life built by Kew's @latinorchidbot.bsky.social & partners' DNA research 🧬👇 figshare.com/s/241e1bd47d...

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🌾🌱🌍🍄🌺🐝 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 See the quarterfinalists! Teams Taxon, Taxoff, Botanists of the Barbican, The Fun-guys, Plantastic 4, Cotyl-Edens, Oxford RADworts, Claddagh Clovers and the Tree-mendous Team!! Watch from 14:00 26 February on YouTube. Revisit earlier rounds as well.

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Ach, I'll have to shift my loyalties for the quarter finals. ....Good luck Reading!...

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Let's goooooooooo! A harder set of questions this week from @bucbotany.bsky.social but we are very proud of ourselves 😁

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🌾🌱🌍🍄🌺🐝 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 Round 2 has started streaming live on YouTube (and recorded to see later). Here's the scores after the first set of questions. Team from University of Aberdeen in the lead closely followed by Reading and Sheffield. What will happen next?

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🌾🌱🌍🍄🌺🧪🐝 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 Round 2 streaming from 14:00 GMT today Wednesday 19th February. Special guest asking the questions - Prof Maarja Öpik, Plant Ecology Laboratory, University of Tartu, Estonia. 22 student teams from UK and Ireland will answer. Which 8 for quarterfinals?

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🌾🌱🌍🍄🌳🐝Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 asks the student teams about many aspects of plants. e. g. Name this plant! Pick from the list. See more in Round 2 starting 14:00 Wednesday 19 February - TOMORROW - streamed on YouTube and recorded to view later. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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