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Botanical University Challenge
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Annual plant knowledge quiz among UK and Irish Universities. For more information https://botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/
🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝What was the Third Student Botany Festival like? See the highlights video on our YouTube channel!

Lively, informative, scientific, FUN!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmfO...

#BUC2025 #plants #loveplants
November 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🪾🍂🍁🌳🌱🌾🌸🌼 Autumn/fall leaves. Once everything useful stored by tree/shrub, leaf itself has to go. Cells change so leaf breaks loose easily. Abscission zone. Deciduous tree now ready for winter storms. #BUC2025
October 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🐝How to get into Botany? We asked students at 3rd Botany Festival in August from 30 UK and Irish universities and other plant-focused institutions.

Andre Parise can't remember; Brazilian Atlantic rainforest has always been around him! Now doing PhD at University of Reading. #BUC2025
October 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🪾🍂🍁🌳🌲🌼🌷🌱🌾🌹Another interesting row of street trees. Acers going yellow for autumn, but one does not follow the rest. Why? Different variety? Location? Younger? Just being stubborn? #BUC2025 #autumncolour
October 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝 What makes students study plants at university? Interest within family is often a big thing that gets them started, but then students find their own way. Listen to Lyd Taylor, Conservation Biology at University of Plymouth. In runner-up team, Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025.
October 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM