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Beautiful images illustrate the dawn of modern botany

9 March 2022

These delicately detailed representations of plants by a founding figure of modern botany are given a new lease of life in the book Leonhart Fuchs: The New Herbal

The spiky but stunning burrs that litter the South African coast

4 April 2018

Walk barefoot through the grass in South Africa and you may step on one of these spiky seeds, which lie in wait, hoping to catch a ride to someplace new

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Beautiful images illustrate the dawn of modern botany

The spiky but stunning burrs that litter the South African coast

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