Fairchild’s Mule

When nurseryman Thomas Fairchild created the world’s first man-made hybrid flower he set botany a challenge to discover how plants breed and how they are related.

08 June 2011

2 minutes

This clip is from

Botany: A Blooming History—A Confusion of Names

Thomas Fairchild - speciation and evolution
Duration: 06:43
Linnaeus and the first system of classification of plants
Duration: 03:21
The binomial system of classification
Duration: 04:52
Classification techniques and the search for useful plants
Duration: 04:36

Muriel Wheldale and complex gene interactions—Hidden World
Duration: 03:32
How plants are adapted to survive—Photosynthesis
Duration: 02:47
Thomas Fairchild - speciation and evolution—A Confusion of Names
Duration: 06:43
Linnaeus and the first system of classification of plants—A Confusion of Names
Duration: 03:21