Theobrominated

I'm writing this in Melbourne, where I'm about to fly home after a wonderful three weeks in Australia . I wasn't specifically on...

This week I’m on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, visiting family before the Australasian Systematic Botany Society ’s conference in Sydney ...

In New Zealand, the forest we typically identify with— the “bush”— is the lowland mixed conifer-angiosperm forest, with a canopy usually ...

The word weed  can be a hard one to define.  Most people accept that a weed is a plant growing where it’s unwanted, something that’s in t...

Bird-dispersed woody weeds are some of the worst, and many in New Zealand are escapes from horticulture.  Sometimes there are similar native...

Chance can be an important aspect of biological discovery, even very minor discoveries such as I'm describing today, but a prepared min...

(Note: I've updated this post on 28 September, giving the name of the botanist whose advice led me to these two Veronica s and whose col...