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Women, Plants, and the Power of a Name
Researchers uncover the real women behind botanical names, turning obscure eponyms into powerful stories of recognition and representation.
Plants & People
Plant Thieves Target Everything From Gardens to Botanic Collections
Insurance data suggests plant theft is increasing, spanning local garden crime to international poaching networks threatening conservation efforts and botanic gardens.
Cells, Genes & Molecules
A rare plant with a taste for toxic soil is getting some help from unexpected allies with green fingers
Czech gardeners helped protect an endangered flower from extinction using their backyards. The simple trick could aid plant conservation worldwide.
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.
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.
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.
Plants & People
Early Agriculture Was About Innovation Not Desperation
Isotope analysis reveals agricultural transition in the Andes was marked by remarkable stability, not the crisis archaeologists long assumed drove farming elsewhere.
News in Brief
The Swindle That Left Tea With a Bitter Taste
How did a fake Scottish tea plantation fool the finest hotels?
News in Brief
Fronds with Benefits
New research reveals how plant leaf shapes affect your mood. Small, complex leaves calm while large leaves energise our spaces.
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The re-discovery of an endemic Hawaiian plant in an unexpected spot
A plant hidden in a herbarium may prove to be unique to Hawai’i.
Plants & People
Snap, Upload, Save: How Citizen Photos Are Rescuing Mediterranean Pollinators
By taking and sharing photos of insects on flowers, citizens are helping scientists protect pollinators and plants
Close Encounters
Want More Bees in Your City? Mix Up Your Flowers
A new study finds that cities can support more wild bee species by planting a greater variety of flower shapes—not just more flowers.