It's hard to spread the idiot fruit
- Written by Stuart Worboys, Laboratory and Technical Support Officer, Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University
Idiospermum is otherwise known as "idiot fruit" or ribbonwood.via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA
Sometimes, in rainforest research, the only way to go is up. Twenty years ago I chose the rare rainforest tree Idiospermum australiense as a research subject for my Master’s degree, and some months into the project I discovered it only produces...