MACABRE BOTANY

Course Description

From flowers that mimic corpses to flesh dissolving enzymes, plants provide a unique perspective to explore the biology of life and death. This course integrates plant physiology, toxicology, and evolution in order to ask exactly how and why plants evolved these insane characteristics, and how we can incorporate this knowledge into our own lives. We will investigate the poisonous, carnivorous, intoxicating, and just flat out gross photosynthesizers that are often overlooked

Interested L&S students should reach out to Ava Jolly at avajolly@ucsb.edu.

This is a student-led colloquium led by Ava Jolly under the supervision of John Latto.