Growth & Development
High-Speed Analysis Reveals Squirting Cucumber’s Ballistic Precision
High-speed cameras capture squirting cucumbers shooting seeds at 29 mph across 12-meter distances using perfectly angled, pressurised fruit explosions.
Plants & People
Rome’s Deadliest Botanist
The Emperor Caligula wasn’t just interested in plants as poisons, he also knew of their healing properties. It seems that he just preferred the poison side of pharmacology.
Ecosystems
Bats, Birds, and Blossoms: The pollinators of Merremia platyphylla
From bat visits at dusk to hummingbird sips at dawn, this plant’s clever pollination strategy reveals the power of flexibility in nature.
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany July 14, 2025
This week, there’s a lot of heat with tropical plants, dead plants that lived in cooler climates and a sweet way for plants to sense heat.
Plants & People
Wikidata for Botanists: Connecting People, Plants, and Data
Wikidata is a global, open database that can help connect botanical data, such as species, collectors, and collections, and anyone in the botanical community can help improve it.
Ecosystems
What Dead Plants Tell Us About Living Through Climate Change
Scientists analysing 2,000 herbarium specimens discovered jewelflowers survive new climates not by evolving, but by engineering their own familiar microenvironments
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Laura Lagomarsino: An Endless Passion For Tropical Plants
Botany One interviews Dr. Laura Lagomarsino, a plant evolutionary biologist that once she fell in love with tropical plants, she never looked back.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
The Surprising Way Plants Really Sense Heat
The sweet molecules plants make during photosynthesis double as sophisticated thermometers, revealing a hidden layer of plant environmental sensing.
The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany July 7, 2025
This week, nectar with colour, plants with none, how small differences foster biodiversity and small gardens that bring us together.
Plants & People
Researchers find social bonds grow in the soil of Warsaw’s gardens
Polish researchers discovered the secret to thriving urban gardens isn’t green thumbs or good soil, it’s the social networks gardeners build together.
Ecosystems
Mapping Microclimates Could Transform Pollinator Conservation
Researchers discovered that tiny temperature differences within single farm fields can be more important than entire landscapes for bee foraging success.
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Kenji Suetsugu: Combining Childhood Curiosity with Scientific Rigour
Botany One interviews Dr Kenji Suetsugu, a Japanese plant ecologist fascinated with plants that completely abandoned photosynthesis.