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Spines or sausages? Two very different Moroccan species in the alphabetically challenged Zygophyllum

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By Tim Entwisle

The Sceptical Botanist

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Three Worlds Oak

[click to order in UK, Europe etc.; available 1 September 2026]

Other places to order 'Three Worlds Oak':

USA: University of Chicago Press [available October 2026]
Australia: NewSouth [link to come; books available December 2026]

The Sceptical Botanist: Separating Fact from Fiction

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To order 'The Sceptical Botanist' outside Australia:

USA: Stylus Publishing
UK, Europe and elsewhere: CSIRO Publishing

Evergreen: The Botanical Life of a Plant Punk

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ASA Cultural Tours Leader

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Jon Baines Tours Leader

Botanical Histories in the Kingdom of Flowers (Yunnan, southwest China), June 2026

Evergreen media

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Evergreen Playlist (YouTube Music)

Soundtrack to my book (a few of the bands seen live)

... roughly in this order ...

Winner of inaugural Blog Laurel 2018

Typing plants

By Jerome Entwisle (2015)

Entwisleia bella, Entwisleiaceae, Entwisleiales

Photo by Fiona Scott (2012)

More to read from Tim

Stupid Plants [pdf] (2017)
Weed is Good [pdf; seaweed as fertiliser] (2017)
^Australian Freshwater Algae [website]
^Facebook (Tim Entwisle)
^Twitter (@TimEntwisle)
^Talking Plants Too [blog scrapbook]
*Gardening Australia Magazine [subscribe]
*Sprinter and Sprummer [buy the book]
*The Skeptic [subscribe]

Listen to Tim (ABC RN podcasts)

*TALKING PLANTS (Series 1 & 2)
*IN SEASON
*BLUEPRINT FOR LIVING (selection)
Bill Henson's garden
Botanic gardens top tourist destination
Botanical names
Botanist and birder
Can plants learn?
Feral fruit
Five plants to save the world
Green walls
Indoor plants and VOCs
John Wolseley on art and beetles
Plants in space
Titan Arum
Tree songs with Martin Friedel
Trends in garden design
Trope l'oeil

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