What was the result of Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025? 31 teams from UK and Ireland entered. Final overall winner was amazing team from University of Aberdeen who led in almost all the rounds. Runner-up was University of Plymouth team, so close behind.

Here's a past Botanical University Challenge question: The distinctive flavour of brown sauce is from tamarind. Which plant family is tamarind from? Five choices: Fabaceae, Polygonaceae, Rosaceae, Apiaceae, Brassicaceae. #BUC2025

Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 Who was the first woman botanist elected #FRS to Royal Society? Agnes Arber - in 1946! Royal Society started 1663. Botany was major area of science. How many other women should have been elected over the centuries. Much wasted talent!

Plant and fungi have so many close relationships: fungi making soil; mycorrhiza fungi feeding and being fed by plants; fungi recycling dead plants; fungi causing disease on plants. #BUC2025 #ukfungusday @ukfungusday

Result of team name competition announced at Botanical University Challenge 2025. Winner was Team 'Plantastic Five', University College Dublin. Runner-up Team 'Pain in the Grass', University of Portsmouth. All teams think of such great names! @drmgoeswild

Student Amy Beach, studying Plant and Soil Science at University of Aberdeen - and in team winning Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 - on what got her into Botany. Influence of father, gardening and being around nature. @BotSocScot @UoABioSci

Great to have a street tree as UK Tree of the Year 2025. The Argyle Street Ash. Looks in good health. We need many more street trees. #BUC2025

Third Student Botany Festival August 2025. After a workshop about orchids, say 'hullo' to one in a glasshouse at Cambridge University Botanic Garden @CUBotanicGarden

Third student botany festival had undergrad & postgrad students from over 25 institutions, and botanical scientists. Gave students chance to talk with botanists they would not otherwise meet. Great for inspiration, contacts and realising there are #careerswithplants! #BUC2025

What better way to look round a glasshouse full of exotic plants than with one of its curators? Part of workshop at Third Student Botany Festival 2025 in Cambridge University Botanic Garden @CUBotanicGarden #BUC2025

Nurturing botany - what Botanical University Challenge is all about. Information in October about entering your team of degree-level students for #BUC2026. Institutions in UK or Ireland that havn't entered a team before, contact us for more information! https://t.co/5TalCqLKrZ

3rd Student Botany Festival #BUC2025 was next to Cambridge Botanic Garden @CUBotanicGarden. Excellent to make use of plants in it during workshops and just to admire!

Amazing number of enthusiastic students keen on #botany at Third Student Botany Festival; 94 from UK and Ireland. Thinking about #careerswithplants & here listening to @CIEEMnet @BSBIbotany @spununderground @UNEP @drmgoeswild

Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025. After, 3rd Student Botany Festival. Included workshop on orchids. About 10% of the seed plant species, monocots but so much diversity: colours, scents, sizes, habitats, lifestyles, fungal partners. Exciting to hear from an expert!

Why do people get into plants at university? Listen to James Ashford in his second year of B. Sc. Biology at University of Aberystwyth. Short answer: Fun and employment prospects. #BUC2025

Other ways people get into #botany are through family influence. Here Ellie Defty, now at University of Leeds explains how her mother's art led her to plants. Member of first team from Leeds to enter Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 talking at 3rd Student Botany Festival.

How do people get into #botany? Here's Sophie Ball, now studying Global Health at Royal Holloway University of London. She explains at 3rd Student Botany Festival what started her journey into #plants. #BUC2025 @drmgoeswild @RoyalHolloway

Name 2025 winning team of Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025 has now been inscribed on the Sid Thomas Trophy. Team Taxon, Taxoff from University of Aberdeen, Scotland. For information about this trophy, see Issue 3, The Thymes, newsletter BUC. https://t.co/v9v6BAaJdy

Third Student Botany Festival after Botanical University Challenge #BUC2025. Introduction to insects! Why? Where do many live, hover, display, eat but plants? Pollination by insects! Carnivorous plants eat insects!!

3rd Student Botany Festival, held last week at @CUBotanicGarden had so much for student plant lovers. Wonderful glasshouses.

Final thought-provoking lecture ended 3rd Student Botany Festival. Inspirational finale. Jonathan Silvertown, University of Edinburgh, 'Separating plant myth from plant science'. @BotSocScot https://t.co/V7Ls5WMYsW