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Surviving or Thriving Exhibition

Wakehurst Place https://www.kew.org/wakehurst/whats-on/surviving-or-thriving-an-exhibition-on-plants-and-us

I was interested to go to this exhibition to see if there was any information relating to native Downland plant species and extinction. I found the exhibition ineresting overall as it dealt with threatened plant species and habitats and what human interventions are possible through scientific surveying, plant discovery and species naming, seed collecting and seed banking in order to study, protect and preserve threatened species. There were examples of plants that humans rely on for medicines, materials and food and what threats some of those may be facing.

It had a global focus but, in the permanent exhibition details, I found the  interesting information seen in my photos above.

The biggest realisation for me having seen this exhibition was that when I think about the South Downs, I have been general in my viewpoint and can now be specific as I realised that the landscape that I have in mind and memory is classified as ‘Chalk grassland’. That helps me to focus on research that I might include in patterns about this landscape.

I also discovered that plants fungi and humans share molecules of Adenine, Thyamine, Cytosine and Guanine in our DNA. We made of the same molecules. A modular design states that “a product is made of subsystems that are joined together to create a full product” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_design).