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…
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Carnivorous plants lack genes to host arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
When friends abandon them, some plants go on a killing spree.
Plants & People
They thought they were growing fruit. They accidentally grew a neighborhood.
Swedish urban forest gardens, created for sustainable food, surprisingly became valued more for fostering community connections and social cohesion than producing crops.
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Paul M. Kirika: Botany as a Legacy and Vocation
Botany One interviews Dr. Paul M. Kirika, the curator of the largest herbarium in tropical Africa.
Growth & Development
Botanists track where a plant thief hides
Advanced imaging captures the growth of a parasite inside its host.
Plants & People
Your Eyes and Ears Are Better At Detecting Biodiversity Than You Think
People’s impressions of forests often match scientific measures of biodiversity, with big implications for conservation and well-being.
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany October 20, 2025
This week, the creepiest pollinator, ghost herbaria and the hidden world of fungi.
Taxonomy & Evolution
Nigeria’s Silent Libraries of Plant Life
Thousands of overlooked plant specimens from this country could fill critical gaps in global biodiversity knowledge.
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Patricia Silva-Flores: “A Whole Hidden World Waiting to Be Discovered and Admired!”
Botany One interviews Dr Patricia Silva-Flores, a Chilean biologist whose work brings attention to the vital, overlooked role of fungi in ecosystems and society.
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.
Ecosystems
Eccentric Pollinating Mates for An Eccentric Flowering Plant
Science has just proven the most despised bugs in human history to be key pollinators of some of the most bizarre and fascinating plants on Earth.
Reviews
The Stuff That Young Botanists Are Made Of
Jonathan Drori shows plants are worth treasuring, by treasuring his young readers.