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Plant • Environment • Climate • Interaction
A citizen science project investigating how plants adapt to a rapidly changing environment
● How can plants adapt to climate change?
● How do plants cope with extreme environmental conditions in the cities?
● In which plant communities and habitats can the plant species be found?
Become part of a dedicated community of citizens who discuss and investigate relevant research questions within this PUKI project.
“Our mission is to promote interest in wild plants and to explore the fascinating adaptations of plants to urban environments and climate change.”
Read our press release, newspaper articles, and blog!
Participate in our data collection
Collect plant data the whole year and throughout the EU in just 15-30 minutes (introductory video).
Get to know the Flora Incognita mobile phone app, which can be used to identify almost all plant species, and try to find one of our five target species.
These small, inconspicuous brassicas are all of great interest to current scientific research.
Activate the PUKI project within the Flora Incogita app
Send us a short email to mailto:puki(at)hhu.de
including the address you want the collection materials sent to, as well as the number of bags you need.
The first few hundred participants in our data collection will receive a PUKI sticker and a PUKI seed paper. You can plant the seed paper in moist soil and beautiful wildflowers will sprout. Find all the details at Join us!
Prof. Dr. Petra Bauer
Head of Institute
Institut für Botanik
Heinrich Heine Universität
Universitätsstr. 1
40225 Düsseldorf
Dr. Lilli Pazurek-Weber
Research associate
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