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botany

A new fountain bush population for Tokai Park

Magazine

A new fountain bush population for Tokai Park

By Zoë C Poulsen

The ‘corpse flower’ bloomed, smelled and collapsed – what’s next for this titan?

Our Burning Planet

The ‘corpse flower’ bloomed, smelled and collapsed – what’s next for this titan?

By Jamie Venter

Now this is worth making a stink about – southern Africa’s only ‘corpse flower’ to bloom this weekend

Our Burning Planet

Now this is worth making a stink about – southern Africa’s only ‘corpse flower’ to bloom this weekend

By Jamie Venter

A past buried in the Karoo town of Sutherland holds portents for our survival as a species

South Africa

A past buried in the Karoo town of Sutherland holds portents for our survival as a species

By Jamie Venter

Nikolay Vavilov: the Russian who tried to feed the world — and starved to death

World

Nikolay Vavilov: the Russian who tried to feed the world — and starved to death

By Don Pinnock