Chloroplastic

Spring planting season? Not that long ago! Ellis and Justin are easily distracted and talk about gardens, seed dormancy, vernalization, but also get sidetracked multiple times to chitchat about everything from haskaps to dire wolves to mushrooms to science fairs to Lamarckian evolution and epigenetics.

In this episode, Ellis and Justin discuss the bane of hikers in the Pacific northwest, a species known as Devil's Club (Oplopanax horridus). Along the way we lightly touch on sequencing for phylogenetics, ethnobotany, and endangered relatives.