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A Conversation about the Wild Sh1t going on in South African ”Daisies”
A Conversation about the Wild Sh1t going on in South African ”Daisies”
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Length:
108 minutes
Released:
Nov 8, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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Note : Interview starts around minute 24:00Recording quality on first 9 minutes of interview is lousy but improves after there after so sit still and wait it out ya schmuck. The sunflower family, Asteraceae, does some wild things - morphologically, evolutionarily and ecologically speaking - in the Southern Part of the African continent, especially in the tribes Calenduleae (think trichomes & stinky, oily glands), Gnaphalieae (paper daisies), and Arctotideae (the infamous "beetle daisies"). In this episode, I speak with Nicola Bergh, the curator for the family Asteraceae at the Compton Herbarium at Kirstenbosch Botanic Garden in Cape Town, to explore just what the hell has gone on with this family in the evolutionary past and how various tribes and subfamilies have dispersed and radiated in Southern Africa.
Released:
Nov 8, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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