Publicity for neglected species

Our friends at the Global Facilitation Unit for Underutilized Species have scored a minor publicity coup by getting a series of posts on the University of British Columbia’s Botany Photo of the Day web site. BPOD, as aficionados know it, is a daily source of stunning images and information to match. Sometimes the featured plant is economically important, and some of those are agricultural. But this is the first time I can remember a series devoted to agricultural biodiversity.

So far BPOD has covered Emmer wheat, ¹ bay laurel and maya nut. Who knows what tomorrow will bring?

1. I could actually quibble and insist, again, that farro is a mixture of hulled wheat species, but I wont.