This week’s Gardeners of the Galaxy Mission Report has algae that could survive on Mars, astrobotany in the SAM analog and AI-generated images causing problems for gardeners.

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Luis Mendonça de Carvalho, Francisca Maria Fernandes, and Ana Paula Figueira are three of the author of a paper dedicated to "a centuries-old woodworking tradition that has stood the test of time": the wooden locks and keys of the island of Corvo (Azores).

#OpenAccess: https://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/6408

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This week’s Gardeners of the Galaxy Mission Report has a Canadian botanist exploring fictional astrobotany, houses built with fungi and extraterrestrial floating vegetation!

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This week’s Gardeners of the Galaxy Mission Report has the cows of the future grazing on Moon grass, space faring Fast Plants and extraterrestrial pierogi!

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Hmm, interesting story about a variety of hot pepper revived, thanks to someone's grandfather, seeds in the bottom of a freezer, and treating arthritis with beestings. Also connected with slavery and Haiti.

BBC: The US pepper that was nearly lost

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240216-the-us-pepper-that-was-nearly-lost #gardening #ethnobotany #seeds #food

This week’s Gardeners of the Galaxy Mission Report looks into at what’s been happening on the ISS, China’s deep sea “space” station and more fossils that have been to space!

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#SpacePlants #astrobotany #gardening #botany #ethnobotany

Switzerland mulls legalising recreational cannabis | National https://www.byteseu.com/744941/ #cannabaceae #Cannabis #Cannabis(drug) #Drugs #DrugsActingOnTheNervousSystem #Entheogens #ethnobotany #Health #HealthCare #HealthPolicy #IndividualPsychoactiveDrugs #MedicalCannabisInTheUnitedStates #partners/afp #pharmacology #PsychoactiveDrugs #ReligionAndDrugs #SocialAspectsOfPsychoactiveDrugs #Switzerland #tetrahydrocannabinol

This week’s Gardeners of the Galaxy Mission Report includes sci-fi Dyson trees, another aquatic ecosystem headed for space and some blasts from our astrobotany past!

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This week's Mission Report newsletter included a seed bank heading for the Moon, the deployment of a wooden satellite, and an update on India’s POEM-4 experiments.

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Periwinkle flower. Known anti cancer plant from Madagascar.
#ethnobotany
#ethnomedicine