Australia
The eighth international “Fascination of Plants Day” 2026 (FoPD 2026) will be launched by plant scientists across the world under the umbrella of the European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO).
The goal of this activity is to get as many people as possible around the world fascinated by plants and enthused about the importance of plant science for agriculture and sustainable production of nutritious food, as well as for horticulture, forestry and the production of plant-based non-food products such as paper, timber, chemicals, energy and pharmaceuticals. The role of plants in environmental conservation is also a key message.
Presented by Veit Braun.
Animals, Claude Lévi-Strauss famously said, are not just good to eat but good to think with: they elucidate the structure of social relations. But what about plants? In this talk I argue that the ways we relate to plants on the one hand and the matrix of people and things on the other offered by property thought are a bad match. Much of what plants are and do does not neatly fit into the categories of subject and object or body and idea; nor can the problems caused by intellectual and tangible property in plants easily be addressed by the critique of property. To elaborate this point, I want to sketch the trajectories on which plants go astray and slip through our matrices of property (including my own) by exploring some of what has happened in the legal landscape of especially European plant breeding over the last 20 or so years. Whether we should run after plants and leave property behind or, conversely, try to patch up the structure of property relations depends on what we care about more: saving plants or saving property.
The theme for Eucalypt Australia’s 2026 photo competition is “Our Eucalypt Home”. We look forward to how you interpret this in terms of amazing eucalypt photos. Just remember the eucalypts need to be a significant feature in the photo, but with this year’s theme, we understand that a creature may be the 🌟 stars 🌟 of your photo. If that is the case, there should be a demonstration of the importance of the eucalypt.
Please let us know what makes this image special to you.
📸 Entries open Monday 18 May 2026 – Fascination of Plants Day
📸 Entries close Tuesday 30 June 2026
📍 Open to all photographers in Australia
🌿 Max one photo per entry and three entries per person.
🥇🥈🥉Prizes will be announced on 🌳 National Tree Day 🌳 27 July 2026
🥇$300 1st Prize
🥈$200 2nd Prize
🥉$100 3rd Prize
🌿 The photo must be the original artwork of the entrant (no AI please).
🌿 Eucalypts for the purposes include the genera Eucalyptus, Corymbia and Angophora.
🌿 Entrants agree to Eucalypt Australia using the photos across our social media platforms and websites. All images will receive attribution.
🌿 If entering multiple images, only one will be chosen for a prize – it’s important for us to share the love 💚
🌿 Eucalypt Australia will notify winners by email and announce in our stories on social media on National Tree Day 27 July 2026.
🌿 Please refer to our privacy policy: https://eucalyptaustralia.org.au/privacy-policy/
🌿 Questions or need help? Contact Linda: executive@eucalyptaustralia.org.au or 0477 958 493.
Enter at: https://eucalyptaustralia.org.au/photo-competition-gallery/
or
https://form.jotform.com/Eucalypt/our-eucalypt-home-photo-competition