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Annual plant knowledge quiz among UK and Irish Universities. For more information https://botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/
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Indeed, arrow points at a conidium of an ascomycota fungus. Cute pun/joke!
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🌱🌾🌍🌺🌳🧪Gum arabic currently from mostly wild trees, Senegalia senegal, Acacia ssp. & Vachellia seyal. Oozes from cuts in tree bark, about 300g per year per tree. Senegal is biggest producer, affected now by war and lack of rain. Trees N fixers, beautiful flowers, vicious thorns. #BUC2025
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I use it to make gomme syrup for cocktails!
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Yes!
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Well done to all the finalists and commiseration to the 4 wonderful teams who just did not make the cut.
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Excellent quizzing by Reading! They are the in-form team, holding all the cards, going into the finals at the 3rd Student Botany Festival at Cambridge Botanic Garden in August ! @slcuplants.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social #plantscience #botany #plants
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🌱🌾🌍🍄🌿🌺🐝🧪 Last view of the teams who will be in Semifinal Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 - Reading, Aberdeen Eden Project and Plymouth! Competing live at 3rd Student Botany Festival in August 2025. Also will be streamed round the world on YouTube!
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🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🐝 Scores in Quarterfinal Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 after set 4. Only 20 s to answer each question. Aberdeen back in the lead. All teams could ID picture of fungus fruit bodies of scarlet elf cap (Sarcoscypha coccinea). Live scores at keepthescore.com/board/rnpxqh...
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🌱🌾🌍🍄🌺🌿🌳 Scores after third set of questions in Quarterfinal Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025. Most teams knew that macadamia nuts originate from Australia. Now 2 sets to go and teams will have only 20 seconds to answer!
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🌱🌾🌍🍄🌺🐝Scores after second set of questions in Quarterfinal Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025. All knew that chitin was a component of fungal cell walls!
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🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🐝 Scores after first set of questions in Quarterfinal Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025. Every team knew what chemical was the source of oxygen released to the atmosphere during photosynthesis!
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Well - trichome is a term for all types of hair on a plant. Some will also have glands producing essential oils, some also sticky stuff (like those of sundew in the picture), but all the sorts of of hairs are trichomes.
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It's option 5
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D is phloem. This is one of a plant's vascular tissues, the one that transports sugars made by photosynthesis, mostly in leaves, to the rest of the plant as food. Also transports signalling molecules. It is in the vascular cylinder but is not the outermost layer.
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No, it is one of the 5 words in the list. Epidermis is an outermost layer, like the skin of a root that you peel off carrots. However, some outer layers have their own special name (as here). The question is about the outermost layer of an internal structure in the root, the vascular system.
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Thanks! The team names are one of the great things about the competition. If you want to, you can vote for your favorite. (What a long link!)
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🌾🌱🌍🍄🌺🌳🧪🐝Final questions answered Round 2 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025. 8 teams with highest scores into Quarterfinal 26 February. Aberdeen, Plymouth, Reading, Kew, Eden, Oxford, Galway, Queen Mary London. Others so close behind! See it again on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_rx...
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🌾🌱🌍🍄🌺🌳🐝Only one set of 10 questions left in Round 2 of Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025. Here's the scores after 4 sets of questions. Only top 8 teams go into quarterfinals on 26 February. Which will it be? Aberdeen, Plymouth, Kew and Reading ahead but 10 others very close.
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🌾🌱🌍🍄🌺🐝 Now 3 sets of questions answered in Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 Round 2. Aberdeen still leading closely followed by Plymouth & Reading, Kew & Galway. Only 4 points separate these teams!
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After second set of questions of Round 2 in Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025, still Aberdeen in the lead but now teams from Royal Botanic Gardens and Royal Holloway University of London close behind them. See scores after each set of questions:
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