The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany November 24, 2025
This week, why seeds aren’t spreading, the deep roots of modern wheat and deceitful orchids.
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany November 17, 2025
This week, life after fire, how history aids ecology and an arms race between plants and bugs.
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany November 10, 2025
This week, a fertiliser time-bomb, a taxonomic mistake that led to some odd results, and the fascination of seeds.
Plants & People
The Trees That Were Saved and Destroyed by the Same Mistake
For 20 years, Mexican communities accidentally planted millions of endangered trees, while simultaneously logging thousands in their natural habitat, without knowing it.
News in Brief
War is turning Ukraine’s fertiliser problem into a catastrophe
Long-term declines in nutrients, and soil damage, have been turbo-charged by the Russian invasion. But a new plan may help restore some of the world’s most fertile soils.
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany November 3, 2025
This week, toxic nectar, the hidden ecosystem and orchids.
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany October 27, 2025
This week, your sensory superpowers, an accidental community, the largest herbarium in Africa and more…
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany October 20, 2025
This week, the creepiest pollinator, ghost herbaria and the hidden world of fungi.
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany October 13, 2025
This week, an unusual shield, beads to save ecosystems, and what makes a plant a phoenix.
Reviews
The Stuff That Young Botanists Are Made Of
Jonathan Drori shows plants are worth treasuring, by treasuring his young readers.
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany October 6, 2025
This week, nature and nurture, the long life of a rose, and Dr. Stefanie Ickert-Bond on the importance of taxonomy.
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany September 29, 2025
This week, the complexity of plants, and the bodyguards that don’t help you get pollinated.