Round 1 in Quarterfinal Botanical University Challenge. Starting with an attractive plant. But what is it?
Botanical University Challenge 2024 Quarterfinal. Teams asked which of 5 plant families have species that use RNase in their self-incompatibility breeding systems. Botany is not just pretty flowers! #BUC2024
Botanical University Challenge 2024 Quarterfinal. A cultural question about plants. Who is this historical figure? Team from University of York knew! #BUC2024
Botanical University Challenge 2024 Quarterfinal. #BUC2024 Joy on the faces of team from University of Reading at a question about pomelo, ancestor of grapefruit. @drmgoeswild
@drmgoeswild Botanical University Challenge 2024 Quarterfinal. #BUC2024 Audience & team from Royal Botanic Garden Kew fascinated to learn that Marie Stopes was a leading UK paleobotanist, lecturer at University of Manchester. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Sto…
@drmgoeswild Botanical University Challenge 2024 Quarterfinal. #BUC2024 Trinity College Dublin spot the origin of the systematic name of garden plant Elecampane.
@drmgoeswild Botanical University Challenge 2024 Quarterfinal. #BUC2024 University of Plymouth team recognise world distribution of savannah.
@drmgoeswild Botanical University Challenge 2024 Quarterfinal. #BUC2024 Final scores - York, Cambridge and RBG Edinburgh - and Reading & Plymouth on same score. After 7 - SEVEN - tiebreakers - Reading finally in 4th place and through to semifinal. Plymouth so good!
Apologies folks, RBG Kew, not RBG Edinburgh, are in the final. Too much excitement at the end of Botanical University Challenge Quarterfinal!