Plant of the Week
Bombax ceiba
The Red Silk-Cotton Tree of Southeast Asia.
Puzzles
Plant Hunt
馃嚢馃嚳 Tulips of Kazakhstan
Puzzles
Sudoku Garden
100 years since Luther Burbank
Plants & People
The Invasive Species Message That's Missing Its Audience
Tell gardeners not to plant alien species and they shrug. Give them practical advice about problem plants and they listen.
Ecosystems
The Safest Place in the Pyrenees Is a Cliff Face
Century-old photographs reveal that a Spanish national park's most treacherous terrain is doing more for rare plants than a hundred years of protection.
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany April 6, 2026
This week: the marks of footprints on lichen, difficult seeds in Chile, native knowledge adding a fizz to the drinks industry, and more.
Plant of the Week
Tulipa cypria
A plant that lives in a small part of time and space.
Puzzles
Plant Hunt
馃嚞馃嚪 A trip through some of the flora of Crete
Puzzles
Sudoku Garden
馃嚫馃嚦 Happy Birthday Senegal
Ecosystems
The Ecological Experiment 2000 Years in the Making
Thousands of megalithic jars in Laos were carved for burial rites. Two millennia later, they're miniature ecosystems, and ecologists have started taking notes.
Plants & People
Herbarium Sheets Are Holding Secrets Their Makers Never Intended
When you mount a plant on a sheet, you capture more than botany. A new paper reveals the unexpected historical treasures hiding in herbaria, and why closing them is a mistake.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Why Would the Plant Next Door Smell Different?
Two populations of the same plant, just 4 km apart in the Italian mountains, produce different perfumes and attract different pollinators. Why?