South African Young Academy of Science

Seeing the wood for the trees

Seeing the wood for the trees
July 2, 2020 HaysHarvest
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What is plant blindness? Take a moment to look at the image below and think about what you see. If the first thing you saw was a giraffe on a cloudy day, you might be suffering from a phenomenon known as plant blindness. That giraffe is but one of hundreds of individual, and equally important,…