CUBG stands for Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Botanic gardens and arboreta always are great places to study plants, to follow their changes over the cycle of seasons and to get excited about biodiversity—or phytodiversity in this case.
What is so special about the CUBG is that it is backed up by a chemical trail: a virtual trail that provides quick access to a detailed, web-based description of selected flowers and trees and further identifies some plant ingredients, chemical compounds, that play a role in and have been extracted for human uses. Drugs, dyes, and natural food additives are just a few examples. To explore the featured plants and substances, I recently published a post and some visual navigation tools:
Question: Are there other gardens of this kind? See ResearchGate Question.
What is so special about the CUBG is that it is backed up by a chemical trail: a virtual trail that provides quick access to a detailed, web-based description of selected flowers and trees and further identifies some plant ingredients, chemical compounds, that play a role in and have been extracted for human uses. Drugs, dyes, and natural food additives are just a few examples. To explore the featured plants and substances, I recently published a post and some visual navigation tools:
- List of chemical plant ingredients in my post A walk through plant chemistry,
- Plant Life board with pictures and links for the chemical trail plants: pinterest.com/axeleratio/plant-life/,
- Learn chemistry while traveling board with the molecular structure of phytochemicals: pinterest.com/axeleratio/learn-chemistry-while-traveling/.
Question: Are there other gardens of this kind? See ResearchGate Question.
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