Close Encounters
Tracking and Conserving an Endangered Plant from Brazil’s Rocky Outcrops
A multidisciplinary hunt uncovers new populations of an endemic plant, while exposing the fragile balance that keeps it from disappearing.
Ecosystems
Eau De Fourmi Mourante: A Bizarre Floral Fragrance To Attract the Right Lover
When it comes to flower scents, it’s not always roses and rainbows. It can be anything from sweaty feet to the chemical cries of suffering bugs, as recently shown by science.
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany March 16, 2026
This week: far-red lettuce, how sunbirds turn plants into phoenices, a moss with an unexpected problem and more.
Puzzles
Sudoku Garden
How do you feel about forests?
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Between Drought and Rain: How a Tropical Moss Teaches Us To Survive in an Increasingly Unstable Climate
A tiny tropical moss defies expectations by suffering more cell damage during the rainy season than the dry. Now scientists think they know why.
Ecosystems
Climate Change Threatens Alpine Plants Before They Ever Get the Chance to Grow
New experiments in the Australian Alps reveal how warming, drought and fire quietly undermine plant survival.
Meeting Plant Scientists
Bianca Schindler: Vellozias and the Biodiversity Puzzle
Botany One interviews Bianca Schindler, a Brazilian botanist whose PhD research aims to document the diversity of the "canelas-de-ema" from Central Brazil and conserve them.
Ecosystems
Rising From the Ashes with the Sunbirds
A study from South Africa reveals that plants that flower after fires are not taking a gamble but are relying on an unexpectedly resilient alliance with sunbirds.
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Light of the Future
Lettuce grown in plant factories benefit from far-red light
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany March 9, 2026
This week: butterfly eyes in the tropics, seeds of the arctic, shifting time to watch blooms, travelling in time to see authentic flora, and more.
Puzzles
Rootle
More than a Dinosaur
Puzzles
Sudoku Garden
National (US) Cereal Day