ROVING REPORTERS Oppenheimer research grant winner tackles invasive plants with game-changing science 7 min 1 By Matthew Hattingh
BOOK EXCERPT The humble Karoo bloom that went global, transforming window boxes around the world 5 min 4 By Julienne Du Toit
DEATH WARMED UP The ‘corpse flower’ bloomed, smelled and collapsed – what’s next for this titan? 3 min 0 By Jamie Venter
PUSHING UP DAISIES Now this is worth making a stink about – southern Africa’s only ‘corpse flower’ to bloom this weekend 3 min 1 By Jamie Venter
ROCK SOLID WARNING A past buried in the Karoo town of Sutherland holds portents for our survival as a species 4 min 1 By Jamie Venter
NATURE’S DEFENDERS Nikolay Vavilov: the Russian who tried to feed the world — and starved to death 6 min 2 By Don Pinnock
