Pictures teams Reading, Aberdeen Eden Project and Plymouth as well as Prof Jennifer McElwain who asked the questions. Prof John Warren and Dr Jonathan Mitchley came up with the idea of BUC.

🌱🌾🌍🍄🌿🌺🐝🧪 Last view of the teams who will be in Semifinal Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 - Reading, Aberdeen Eden Project and Plymouth! Competing live at 3rd Student Botany Festival in August 2025. Also will be streamed round the world on YouTube!

Do you want to join the UKs biggest botanical quiz? @bucbotany.bsky.social starts tomorrow.

Soon jealous!

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Four smiling adults standing in a building next to a parlour palm.

Congratulations to Tomos Jones, University of Reading, Biology for passing his PhD on gardens as a source of invasive plants. #gardenescapers #invasives
@herbarium.bsky.social @drmgoeswild.bsky.social

A Rum affair book cover.

In flight reading on journey for fieldwork in Crete to collect for @herbarium.bsky.social 🌱🌿 #Botany