This week, we’re talking about noble rhubarb and an amazing story of a female adventurer, botanist and tavern owner, Jeanne Baret. Plus speculations about the moon, a lot of great inventions and a parrot who likes crisps.

• Rheum nobile – Wikipedia
  • Rheum nobile was a top find on our… – Alpine Garden Society
  • Noble Rhubarb — In Defense of Plants
  • Flavonoids in translucent bracts of the Himalayan Rheum nobile (Polygonaceae) as ultraviolet shields
  • A new pollinating seed‐consuming mutualism between Rheum nobile and a fly fungus gnat, Bradysia sp., involving pollinator attraction by a specific floral compound
  • Ultraviolet screening increases with elevation in translucent bracts of Rheum nobile (Polygonaceae), an alpine ‘glasshouse’ plant from the high Himalayas
  • Optical and anatomical characteristics of bracts from the Chinese “glasshouse” plant, Rheum alexandrae Batalin (Polygonaceae), in Yunnan, China
  • Pollen development of Rheum nobile Hook.f. & Thomson (Polygonaceae), with reference to its sterility induced by bract removal 
  • More images on twitter
• Jeanne Baret – Wikipedia; The Discovery of Jeanne Baret 
• Things Women In Literature Have Died From
• Bias: Escalation of commitment
• Moonstruck sleep: Synchronization of human sleep with the moon cycle under field conditions
• Women temporarily synchronize their menstrual cycles with the luminance and gravimetric cycles of the Moon
• A robot arm toting a Venus flytrap can grab delicate objects 
• Gardyn: The 100 Best Inventions of 2020 | TIME
• 100 Best Inventions of 2020 | TIME – TIME 
• Seeds transfer their microbes to the next generation
• There is more to flowering than those DAM genes: the biology behind bloom in rosaceous fruit trees
• Eloisa James – Wikipedia
• Akito Arima – Wikipedia
• How to pick the perfect avocado
• CRISPARROT

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