How Do Plants Get Their Freak On? with Dr. Alex Monro

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Alex Monro is a botanist and research leader at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in the Americas Team of the Identification and Naming Department. After watching The Jungle Book at a young age, he became fascinated with tropical forests and has spent the last 20 years working as a taxonomist, systematist, and field botanist. Jonathan joined Dr. Monro in his office at the Royal Botanic Gardens to discuss the Millennium Seed Bank Project, stinging nettles, and all the different ways plants reproduce. Follow Dr. Monro on Twitter @alexmonro and the Royal Botanic Gardens on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @kewgardens. To find out more about Dr. Monro and RBG’s work visit tropicalbotany.wordpress.com and www.kew.org. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious.
0:03.0	I'm Jonathan Vines and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant
0:07.6	expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:11.0	On today's episode I'm joined by Bodnist and research leader at the Royal Botanic Gardens
0:15.2	Q, Dr. Alex Monroe, where I ask him, how do you plan to get their freak off?
0:27.1	Welcome to Getting Curious. This is Jonathan Vines. We are with Dr. Alex Monroe, who is
0:32.8	a Bodnist at the Royal Botanic Gardens. So, Petra, we're in London right?
0:40.4	Yeah, on the edge of London.
0:41.8	On the edge of London. And we're at Q Gardens, which is...
0:45.7	It's the world's biggest botanical gardens and botanical research institute. So it combines
0:51.3	an actual parkly landscape with amazing collections of living plants and then a giant
0:56.2	collection of dried, a barren plants, which for example, I study on.
1:02.0	I think I just saw a tree that was from 1775.
1:06.3	Yeah, you would have, yeah.
1:08.3	That is way... That's like... That was like the Boston Tea Party in the Battle of
1:12.9	Bunker Hill, not to bring up a store subject in the United Kingdom, but I think that
1:16.2	was like the same year.
1:17.8	Yeah, yeah, probably, yeah.
1:19.0	Like a wow! That's old.
1:21.5	Q Gardens has really been like a living breathing museum for plants where people can come
1:26.8	view them. You can see these big, beautiful, glass houses that have palm trees. And I also
1:32.7	saw this like one glass house place that looks... It makes like high altitude.
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