There's some interesting botanical forensic evidence in this video.

What is/are the plants? (prob. something growing close by)
If they were grabbed from the yard, then did the suspect leave footprints in the soil?

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They should check the diatom flora in the femur, liver, and lungs to help determine if the victim was drowned in the river or was already dead and dumped. See Figure 10 in my book Planting Clues: How Plants Solve Crimes.

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Something must be right when your students are dragging 40kg mannequins through the woods to comments of “oh, it’s just forensics”!

This might look sus, but ever ones to #innovate, Drs Chris Aris and Viv Heaton are actually teaching our #ForensicScience students about #ForensicBotany fieldwork.

Anyone know of any legal cases where #forensicbotany #forensicecology evidence would have been useful?

I'm seeking to promote #forensicscience.

Eg: Davis v. Ducart 2015 - defendant argued counsel failed to call expert witness to ID leaves on hoodie that placed him at scene with gun found in bush.

#Pollen 🌼 in clothes or hair indicates where someone was.

The #ForensicBotany 🌿 uses microscopes to trace regions by specific grains. #Nature is a silent witness of the crime!

#ForensicBotany uses pollen and plants to locate crime investigation places in time and space.

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A cacti-smuggling case with a prickly end: the novel way courts are making poachers pay Two Italian cacti smugglers have been fined for illegally trading plants from Chile – and for the cost of restoring the environment. Conservationists hope more cases will follow

Combating wildlife poaching with conservation mitigation.
Make the poachers pay for habitat restoration. Brilliant idea!

I talk about poaching in Ch 7 of Planting Clues: How Plants Solve Crimes (OUP 2022).

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Botanical potpourri No. 1 This post explores various plant-based topics, focusing on newly discovered species and their significance. It highlights the discovery of the “Ghost palm” and critically endangered spe…

Nigel Chaffey's recent blog highlights a couple of interesting #forensicbotany articles. I like how he's expanded the definition of "forensic botany" to include archeological investigations and tracking fungal dispersal by butterflies.

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