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A University Challenge-style event focused entirely on weird and wonderful plants was hosted by the University of Reading to kick of a year-long celebration of its botanical expertise.<\/p>\n

The University of Reading hosted the event on February 20 which saw delegates from Southampton, Kew, Edgehill, Liverpool and Manchester Metropolitan University go head-to-head in a range of topics including botanical terminology, Chinese medicine and alien plants.<\/p>\n

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An early round from Botanical University Challenge 2019<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a fiercely fought contest, the home side of MSc Plant Diversity and\u00a0BSc ecology students faced off against Liverpool, with the University of Reading team emerging victorious after a nail-biting sudden death tie-breaker final.<\/p>\n

The Botanical University Challenge was created by Dr Jonathan Mitchley, Associate Professor in Field Botany at the University of Reading, and Dr John Warren from Aberystwyth University as a way of celebrating botanists and the importance of plants in the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century, with the first event being held at Kew in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The event marked the start of the University\u2019s year-long celebration of 50 years of offering botany at a master\u2019s level, which will also include a Harris Garden open day in April, a Fascination of Plants day in May, and a Golden Jubilee Reunion in July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr Mitchley said:
\n\u201cThe general consensus was that our wonderful and enthusiastic audience and our awesome botanical teams were treated to a great afternoon celebrating the beauty, fascination and importance of plants and the botanists who study and teach it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a fantastic start to Reading Botany 2019 celebrating 50 years of masters teaching at Reading and an overall and outright victory for botany.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look forward to the next contest, and rumour has it this will be in 2020 and held at the home of our awesome runners-up Liverpool.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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