Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't

Da Sticky Plant Episode Nice & Pleistocene Ground Sloth Turds


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In this episode (after a 35 minute rambling rant about West Texas Archaeology, the joy of holding 31,000 year old ground sloth shit, obscure Chihuahua Desert Sunflowers, and rich freaks, we talk with Dr. Eric Lopresti about sticky plants and the evolution and adaptive benefits of glandular-ass trichomes in plants, namely the genus Abronia (sand verbena) and the flower structure of the Bougainvillea Family, Nyctaginaceae.
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Crime Pays But Botany Doesn'tBy Tony Santore

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