ALT The cover image shows Leontice incerta, a desert plant of Leonticeae (Berberidaceae) from Xinjiang, China. The bladderlike inflated fruits of L. incerta enable seed dispersal as tumbleweeds, which may be responsible for the extensive distribution of this genus across the open and dry habitats of Central Asia. [See Wei et al., pp. 1182—1193.] Photo credit: Boka Li, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

ALT Promotional graphic from Annals of Botany for the Virtual Collection ‘Plant Reproductive Biology’, featured article #1: ‘Sexually deceptive orchids with distinct flower morphologies elicit different behaviours from a shared pollinator’, by de Jager et al. Text reads: ‘Two orchids, one wasp, two different tricks. Both species sexually deceive the same pollinator, but attract it to different parts of the flower.’ On the right is a photo of a spider orchid with long, thin cream petals striped with red and a dark red, fringed central lip. Top left shows the collection cover, with a hawkmoth feeding on purple verbena flowers.