Greg Jordan

@brhollan Try Parasitaxis. It's purple parasite that lives off other conifers in New Caledonia.

So what is the weirdest conifer in the world?

What a brilliant paper...

Just an incredible breach of our civic norms from Obama here, and I don't see how the Republic survives this denigration of the presidency

How good are ancestral state reconstructions? If you use reconstructions please read this new open access paper: rdcu.be/b3Zh0...

Whoo-hoo...

New paper on the evolution of stomatal size and its relationship to climate rather than CO2. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

PhD opportunity in fire refugia and relictual plant species in Tasmania. Very interesting. Details at utas.edu.au/research/degre… or contact greg.jordan@utas.edu.au

nice

@theotheroad Always vernicosa. Acid rain from the Queenstown mine and fire sterilised Mt Owen, except for vernicosa. Is the world's toughest plant?

Brilliant. I wonder what the biomechanics of the wood is. twitter.com/MRossettoEvoEc…