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    Welcome to Plant Love Stories!! And: How I became a botanist in New Jersey
    • Feb 14, 2018
    • 2 min

    Welcome to Plant Love Stories!! And: How I became a botanist in New Jersey

    by Becky Barak Many of my plant love stories are actually stories about teachers that helped me see the world in a new way. High school biology class was maybe the first time I started thinking about plants as really, truly alive (and now I’m a botanist, so I guess we all grow up). My teacher had taught us about transpiration -- the flow of water up from the roots of a plant all the way up to the leaves -- against gravity and driven by evaporation. On the way home from scho
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