Sometimes, technology makes our lives better. On other occasions, it makes it much harder. This week was one of those times, the recording equipment failed on us. We still did a fun show full of cool plant science, it just doesn’t sound as nice. Sorry!

• Indigofera tinctoria – Wikipedia
• Isatis tinctoria – Wikipedia
• Indigo dye – Wikipedia 
• Eliza Lucas – Wikipedia 
• South Carolina Gardener, Botanist, & Agriculturalist Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793)
• The Gullah: Rice, Slavery, and the Sierra Leone-American Connection 
• Phytotelma – Wikipedia
• Aquatic islands in the sky: 100 years of research on water‐filled tree holes – Petermann – 2022 – Ecology and Evolution – Wiley Online Library
• Facts Are No Longer Convincing. Research Suggests You Should Say This Instead
• Personal experiences bridge moral and political divides better than facts | PNAS  
• Flower shape and size impact bees’ chances of catching gut parasites | Science News
• Effect of water availability on volatile‐mediated communication between potato plants in response to insect herbivory – Vázquez‐González – Functional Ecology – Wiley Online Library 
• An oxygen-sensing mechanism for angiosperm adaptation to altitude | Nature
• The US Navy Put Cameras on Dolphins And The Results Are Wild : ScienceAlert

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