UnbeLEAFable Botany
A brand new podcast being launched by Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum as part of our 400th year celebration, aiming to inspire young people with the wonderfully weird world of plants.
Currently, we have these ideas for potential episode titles and we would love your feedback or suggestions.
- Killer plants: the carnivores, vampires and parasites of the plant world
- Perfect by design: exploring the world of orchids, the masters of deception
- Let's Re-Peat: everything you need to know about peat
- Crucial conservation: Plants that are saving the world and how we can save them
- Murder most foul: how plants are helping solve crimes through forensic botany
- Wait, so plants can talk?: Plant communications
- Plant and plantibility: Plants and literature
- Bringing your garden indoors: your guide to houseplants
- Toxic, psychedelic or medicinal: an exploration into plant biochemistry and medicine
- Delicious and addictive: a look at some of the most addictive plants including coffee, sugarcane and cacao
- Awesome astrobotany: how do we grow plants in space and what does it teach us about agriculture on Earth
- Nature based solutions: biomimetics and how plants are inspiring engineers to solve some of our biggest problems
- Plant top trumps: the oldest, smallest, tallest, rarest, etc.
- Plants in a changing world: the impact of climate change
- The root of it: Exploring the crucial relationship between plants and fungi
