Meeting Plant Scientists
Chris Thorogood: "We Can’t Live Without Plants"
Botany One interviews Dr Chris Thorogood, who aims to foster a greater care and attention for plants through science and art.
Taxonomy & Evolution
How Seeds Travelled Through Plant History
From fruit-eating animals to wind and self-launching seeds, flowering plants have changed their travel strategies as climates shifted over millions of years.
Digital Botany Focus Issue
Editorial Reflection: Digital Botany, One Story at a Time
As Botany One’s Digital Botany Focus Issue comes to a close, this reflection looks back at the people, platforms and hidden labour behind the digital biodiversity revolution.
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany June 29, 2026
This week: The human connection to digital botany and what we know about the plants closest to extinction.
Digital Botany Focus Issue
The Ecology of a Herbarium: How Te Papa connects plants, people, and data
From seaweed watercolours to global biodiversity databases, Te Papa’s herbarium shows how digital botany can make plant collections more accessible, connected and alive.
Plant of the Week
Sphagnum palustre
Our first moss for Plant of the Week: the blunt-leaved bog moss.
Puzzles
Plant Hunt
⚽ From Europe to North America
Science Shared
Science Shared: June 27
This week: Lichen genomics, AI in ecological research, organelle positioning and more.
Puzzles
Sudoku Garden
🇩🇯 Happy Birthday Djibouti!
Digital Botany Focus Issue
How Your iNaturalist Photos Feed the Digital Botany Revolution
Every plant photograph you upload to iNaturalist holds an untapped scientific superpower, thanks to PhenoVision. This new framework has processed nearly 40 million iNaturalist images.
Ecosystems
High in the Mountains, Every Degree Matters for Pollinators
Research from the Australian Alps reveals that some mountain flowers act as miniature solar heaters, providing pollinators with warm refuges when cold conditions would otherwise keep them grounded.
Ecosystems
Scaled Gardeners: How Fish Dictate the Future of the Amazonian Flooded Forest
When Amazonian forests flood, fish take over the work of seed dispersal, carrying viable seeds through rivers and helping plants colonise new areas.