The Second XTBG Field Botany Course was held during April 4-22, with 22 trainees from 7 countries participated. The course was for non-plant taxonomy majors and aimed at arming students with an ability to identify plants in the field, thereby enhancing the quality of observations they may make in the course of their research. 

Prof. Jim LaFrankie and Prof. Ferry Slik, two renowned tropical Asia ecologists and botanists were major lecturers for the course. Other guest lecturers like  Prof. Xu Zengfu, Dr. Xiao Longqian, Dr. Lin Luxiang, Dr. Uromi Goodale, and Dr. Mareike Roeder from XTBG taught components on their focal taxa or subjects.  

The trainees used the materials at http://xtbg-botany.wikispaces.com/, which was established by Prof. Ferry Slik in 2012 for the field botany course. 

During the course, students learned to recognize about 200 plant species in 137 genera, belonging to 43 plant families. 

Group photo of the teachers and trainees