Use this handy guide (click to enlarge) for spotting the different Bauhinia trees most common in Hong Kong. Flowering period is a big giveaway with ‘purpurea’ stopping flowering just as ‘variegata’ starts. But notice that Bauhinia blakeana flowers the longest, from October to April – an incredible 6 months! That’s partly because of it being ... [Read more...]

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SCMP Bauhinia Cover Bags Bronze Hong Kong residents might be aware of the Bronze Order of the Bauhinia award, the most commonly handed out medal in the Hong Kong honours system, but now the Bauhinia flower itself has received a bronze gong.

Tis the (Bahinia flowering) season. On behalf of the Bauhinia Genome team we’d like to thank you for all your generous support. We eventually raised $2,608 USD ($20,215 HKD), which makes our efforts one of the largest “community genome” projects to date. While those of you who have contributed will have recently seen an email from Indiegogo that the crowdfunding campaign is officially now over, the hard work is only just beginning.

In our ongoing mission for citizen engagement, we’ve made a cute little video to tell people about #BauhiniaWatch. Bauhinia Watch is the part of this Bauhinia Genome science project that truly anyone can get involved with – that means you! An important part of science is to know about what’s happening outside of the lab… in the real world.

Since we launched a couple of weeks ago, we’ve had quite a lot of interest in this Bauhinia Genome project. The SCMP put us on their front cover (see pic above) and ran a great article that described our project and the historical mystery around Bauhinia blakeana and its discovery on a Hong Kong hillside ... [Read more...]

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We’ve just finished our official crowd-funding video with an all-star cast and with backing music – oh yes.

We are crowdfunding the Bauhinia genomes (3 species!) on Indiegogo and the project page launched yesterday! This ‘soft launch’ took place at BGI’s annual International Conference on Genomics (ICG10) that is currently taking place in Shenzhen during a special session on community science projects hosted by Scott Edmunds.

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