Tag: Botany Department

St. Remedius Medical College: "The Cure For Plant Blindness"

Plants Deserve Love, Too (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) The official term is “plant blindness”: “the inability of a person to notice plants and/or appreciate their significance.” For a significant proportion of the human population, plants are background: the trees, shrubs, vines, and other outgrowths that conceal the important things in the universe, namely us animals. Look at a diorama of a Carboniferous forest, and…