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Identifying plants: a life teaching plant taxonomy - Richard Milne

We can tend to think of plant identification or taxonomy as a Victorian pursuit; the intrepid explorer scouring jungles for new and exotic plants species. There's even the idea that we've discovered all the plants in the world; while we've discovered almost 400,000 different plant species, we still identify hundreds of new species each year. Here we interview plant taxonomist Dr Richard Milne about his work in teaching others how to identify other plants... 0:00 Introduction 0:11 Biogeography & nettles crossing the ocean 0:50 What is hybridisation? 1:06 A life identifying plants 2:32 From rhododendrons to teaching 3:29 The joy of teaching Speaker profile: Richard is a senior lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences. He manages to balance his own creative interests with his teaching and research in plant biology. An extremely creative person; he has created a satirical comic series on social media and has also published a comedy thriller. His creative approach also influences the way he teaches, and as a three-time winner of a Teaching Award – it must be working! His aim is not only to teach but more importantly, to inspire. "I am a senior lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences. My interests are, broadly, plant evolutionary biology, hybridisation, and plant movements - plants in general, but I’ve done a lot of work on rhododendrons specifically. Right now, I’m creating a plant identification tool for complete beginners. This involves me walking around Scotland in my free time and taking pictures of every type of plant that I encounter. Just yesterday, I was in the Cairngorm mountains hunting for plants with my wife and a couple of keen students. I love walking and finding new plants; that’s probably the most defining hobby I have. When I was seven years old, I started picking up flowers and wondering what they were. At first I would keep them in water, but quickly switched to pressing them and keeping them in books, which I still have to this day. It’s a passion that started early and is still going strong to this day. " Filmed at the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School, 2023. #plantscience #plantid #planttaxonomy