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cquave March 5, 2017 March 5, 2017Etnobotanica.us News, Quave Research News antibiotic resistance, bioprospecting, drug discovery, drug resistance, medicinal plants, MRSA, philanthropy, research, students

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    Meet the loneliest plant in the world 🌿 At @durba Meet the loneliest plant in the world 🌿

At @durbanbotanicgardens, one of the garden’s wonderful local guides introduced us to Encephalartos woodii, Wood’s cycad. In 1895, John Medley Wood found a single plant growing in the Ngoye Forest of KwaZulu-Natal. It was a male. No female has ever been found.

Cycads have separate male and female plants, so this species can’t reproduce sexually. Every Wood’s cycad alive today, around 500 of them in gardens worldwide, is a clone grown from offshoots of that one male. The trunks here in Durban are some of the original stems, collected over a century ago, and Wood’s cycad is now the garden’s emblem.

The search continues. Since 2022, researchers have been using drones and AI to scan the Ngoye Forest for a female, and most of the forest has yet to be surveyed. Somewhere out there, one may still be waiting. 💚

Huge thanks to our guide for sharing this story so beautifully!

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    Today we celebrated some extraordinary women in sc Today we celebrated some extraordinary women in science, exploration and conservation at the 2026 WINGS Women of Discovery Awards! 🌍✨

WINGS is the only organization that exclusively supports women breaking barriers and pioneering the frontiers of discovery. This year’s honorees:

🪐 Dr. Ellen Stofan, a planetary geologist exploring the potential for life beyond Earth, including Titan, where rivers of methane flow

🧊 Dr. Alison Criscitiello, whose ice-core research reveals the history of our changing climate

🦅 Bayarmaa Chuluunbat, a wildlife ecologist and conservationist in Mongolia who is pioneering an early-warning system for wildlife crime and mortality using high-tech devices mounted on cinereous vultures

🐝 Dr. Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, a chemical biologist bridging ancestral knowledge and cutting-edge science, whose work helped win legal protections for stingless bees in the Amazon

🐒 We also heard from Dr. Mireya Mayor, whose science communication took the public on a journey to witness the discovery of the smallest primate on Earth!

For too long, women in science haven’t received the recognition they deserve, yet their impact on science, conservation and exploration has been outsized. Imagine what they could achieve if they were fully funded.

If you’re looking for a cause to support, this is one you can really feel good about: the women changing the world for a better future. Visit the WINGS website (https://wingswomenofdiscovery.org) to learn more about the Fellows and Flag Carrier programs and how to donate to the mission. 💛 @wingswomenofdiscovery 

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On Friday, Nov 13, I'll be at the University of Arizona's Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine for a free talk on The Plant Hunter. I'll share stories from fieldwork around the world and how plant chemistry could help us fight drug-resistant infections, followed by Q&A and a book signing. Seating is limited to 100, so RSVP via the QR code in this post. Want a signed copy? Reserve it on the form by Nov 12.

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Go find your wonder. ✨

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    Home sweet home… if she approves! 🐦🌾 Meet the mas Home sweet home… if she approves! 🐦🌾

Meet the master builders of the wetland: Yellow Weavers (Ploceus subaureus), also called Eastern Golden Weavers, filmed in the reed beds of iSimangaliso Wetland Park at St. Lucia, South Africa.

The bright yellow males do all the construction. Using only their beaks and feet, they strip long ribbons from reeds and grasses, then loop, weave, and tie knots to build an intricate hanging nest.

Then the female arrives for inspection. 🧐 She hops inside, tugs at the walls, and checks the workmanship. If it passes, she moves in and lines it with soft grasses. If not, she simply moves on, and the male often tears the nest down and starts again. A determined male may build several nests in a season to win a mate.

🌿 Plant connection: Remember the common reed (Phragmites australis) from my hippo video? These reed beds are prime real estate. Nests hung over water are harder for predators to reach, and the reeds supply the building materials. Here at the estuary, weaver colonies stretch for kilometers, sharing the reeds with hippos and crocodiles!

📍 iSimangaliso, “place of wonder” in isiZulu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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    Snack time for a hungry hippo! 🦛🌾 These giants of Snack time for a hungry hippo! 🦛🌾
These giants of the wetland usually leave the water at night to graze for their main meal, but this one opted for a midday snack. On the menu: common reed, Phragmites australis, filmed here at St. Lucia in iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site.

This reed is a star of this ecosystem:

🌊  Built for brackish water. It tolerates salinity up to about 22 parts per thousand, so it thrives where freshwater rivers meet the salty estuary.

🏞️ An estuary engineer. Its dense roots and rhizomes bind the sediment, holding the banks together and protecting them from erosion.

🐦 A home for many. Reed beds give birds safe nesting sites and shelter a whole world of invertebrates.

Local people have long valued it too. In isiZulu the reed is called umhlanga, and it’s woven into mats and baskets and carried in the Reed Dance ceremony that bears its name.
One plant feeds a hippo, holds the shoreline together, shelters wildlife, and connects to culture. 🌿

📍 St. Lucia Estuary, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu-Natal
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