Plants & People
By examining how artists portrayed potatoes across cultures and centuries, researchers show how our relationship with one of the world’s most important crops has shifted from reverence and reliance to convenience and comedy.
Plants & People
Urban biodiversity is changing around us, forcing us to decide when to resist change, when to accept it and when to guide it.
Plants & People
Urbanization leads to a 50:50 ratio of native to non-native plant species
Plants & People
Over 80,000 accidental plant exposures in France, and the deadliest mistakes were mostly made by people who thought they knew what they were picking.
Plants & People
A survey of 421 plant biologists found the strongest recruiter for botany isn't argument. It’s contact.
Plants & People
Apps are getting better and better at identifying plants, but are they ready for surveys in the field?
Digital Botany Focus Issue
Digitising a collection is easy. Deciding who owns the knowledge inside it is the hard part.
Digital Botany Focus Issue
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.
Plants & People
New research shows that economic value, not conservation urgency, is the strongest predictor of which Brazilian plants attract scientific study.
Plants & People
State flowers and insects are meant to represent a place, but climate change may soon test how long those living emblems can remain in place.
Plants & People
Could perfumes help save endangered plants? A new initiative combines fragrance technology, conservation funding, and ethical sourcing to protect some of the world’s rarest species.
Digital Botany Focus Issue
Why digital botany matters now