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Ugly plants have higher pollen counts!

15/07/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  3 Comments

The uglier the plant or flower, the more allergy-inducing its pollens tends to be! What a lovely neat theory being propounded by Dr Robert Valet, assistant professor of Medicine and an allergist at Vanderbilt University – and reported in Science Daily. Although it seems rather …

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