I asked my first year #botany students to find botanical anomalies in movies, comics, book, etc. And WOW, they found a LOT! Some of my highlights:

I find floral prints on wallpaper, Hawaiian shirts, etc almost triggering. Different species on the same vine, etc…

A classic in European medieval movies : #tomatoes#potatoes#squashes where not in Europe at that time ! Here an example from Shrek

I see so many illustrations where trees are blossoming and fruiting at the same time - I can excuse this for botanical illustrations where they want to show the plant and save space, but for stuff like fairy tales where there's a picture of someone plucking an apple from a blossoming tree? What?

Horse Chestnut trees in so many films set in pre-17th century Britain

I use the example Russel Crowe as the gladiator walking through knee high wheat in my food security lectures - to explain semi dwarf wheats - key to the green revolution - only came in the 1960s

Biology instructor here, I frickin' LOVE this assignment!

What a great assignment for your botany students 🤩 The crappy research/knowledge on botany/horticulture /farming among movie makers is a constant irritant for me watching films/series 🤓🙈😅