Category Archives: MSc Plant Diversity

MSc Plant Diversity – Plant families ID test – Samples 11-40 (Books and notes allowed) – Answers

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Alastair Culham

The plant families samples 11-40 belong to are listed below (using APG2/3 for flowering plants)

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MSc Plant Diversity – Plant families ID test – Samples 11-40 (Books and notes allowed)

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Alastair Culham

The second phase of the ID test allows books and lecture notes but time remains pressing.  Whatever remains of the three hours after samples 1-10 have been identified is very much needed for the last 30 samples.  Some of these … Continue reading →

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MSc Plant Diversity – Plant families ID test – Samples 1-10 (Closed book exam) Answers

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Alastair Culham

The Family names for each of the forst ten samples are given here: Number Genus species Family 1 Crassula muscosa Crassulaceae 2 Nepeta nepetoides Lamiaceae 3 Begonia cv. ‘Cleopatra’ Begoniaceae 4 Equisetum hyemale Equisetaceae 5 Centaurea clementei  Morocco Asteraceae 6 … Continue reading →

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MSc Plant Diversity – Plant families ID test – Samples 1-10 (Closed book exam)

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Alastair Culham

Close on the heels of the MSc fieldwork comes the final assessment for the MSc module BIMPB12 Diversity and Identification of Plants.  This module runs over the Autumn and Spring terms and aims to give the knowledge structure needed to … Continue reading →

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MSc Plant Diversity Field ID test

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Alastair Culham

The MSc Plant Diversity students spent the afternoon of field day 9 walking the Lizard coast doing a field ID test.  While they identified I photographed – all photos taken in the field on a sunny but windy day so … Continue reading →

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MSc Plant Diversity Field Course – Day 7 Gwendreath, Cornwall

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Alastair Culham

Since Monday the MSc Plant Diversity group has been travelling along the southern coast of England on its Summer Term field trip.  After 5 nights in youth hostels in Dorset and Devon we have now settled in static caravans at … Continue reading →

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MSc Plant Diversity visit to RHS Wisley 2015

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Alastair Culham

The RHS garden at Wisley has one of the best curated plant collections in the UK so provided the ideal venue for today’s MSc plant family revision. After a tour of the herbarium and meeting some of the RHS botany … Continue reading →

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ETHNOBOTANY 2014 – The richness of a legacy – Conference

Posted on November 22, 2014 by Irene Teixidor

On Monday the 17th November the conference Ethnobotany 2014: la riqueza de un legado got started in Córdoba, Spain (http://www.etnobotanica2014.com). Its opening lecture, entitled ‘The transformation of ethnobotany’ was given by Vernon H. Heywood, Emeritus Professor from the University of … Continue reading →

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MSc Plant Diversity 2013/14 dissertation submission Today

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Alastair Culham

Today was submission day for the MSc in Plant Diversity research dissertations.  Some students submitted early as they had commitments in other parts of the world but our last few stalwarts celebrated their achievement with a choice of Champagne or … Continue reading →

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How to write your science: a dissertation is a story

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Alastair Culham

This is the season in the academic year when I spend much of my time reading and commenting on MSc dissertations and draft PhDs.  Each year I remind my students that a thesis is like a novel, you need to … Continue reading →

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