Ecosystems
How Climate and Pollinators Shape the Colour Palette of Brazilian Mountain Ecosystems
By seeing flowers through the eyes of bees and hummingbirds, researchers show why the campos rupestres remain so colourful from mountain base to peak.
Ecosystems
A New Hope for Contaminated Soil: Wild Plants and Microbes Can Work Together to Clean Up Oil Spills
Native plant species adapted to oil seeps can cooperate with their local microbial communities to remove toxic petrochemicals from their soil environment
Meeting Plant Scientists
Alyssa Stewart: "There’s a New Discovery to Be Made Around Every Corner!"
Botany One interviews Dr Alyssa Stewart, an ecologist studying the diverse and sometimes surprising pollination systems of tropical plants.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
Does a Moss From Antarctica Hide New Weapons Against Cancer?
Polytrichastrum alpinum has shown promising anticancer activity in laboratory tests, reducing the survival and spread of canine mammary tumour cells.
Ecosystems
The Banksia That Calls Beetles in the Dark
Just like birds and mammals, nocturnal beetles can be key pollinators, helping to pollinate one of Australia's best-known native plants.
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany July 20, 2026
An ancient spiral, arctic palms, tomato's dawn and more.
Plant of the Week
Nesiota elliptica
The Saint Helena olive went extinct in 2003 due to human activity.
Digital Botany Focus Issue
The Digital Biodiversity Revolution Needs More Than Data (Part 2)
Digitising a collection is easy. Deciding who owns the knowledge inside it is the hard part.
Puzzles
Plant Hunt
⚽ From North America to the World
Science Shared
Science Shared: July 18
This week: complicated sex, habitat succession, pathogen recognition and more.
Digital Botany Focus Issue
The Digital Biodiversity Revolution Needs More Than Data
At Kew’s State of the World’s Plants and Fungi Symposium, digitisation promised new science, sharper conservation and faster AI. But the hardest questions were about people, power and who benefits.
Puzzles
Sudoku Garden
📷 The anniversary of the photographic <IMAGE> on the web.