The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany August 17, 2026
This week: A sneaky orchid, the two sides of a leaf, and why a plant needs the bear necessities.
The Week in Botany
This week: A sneaky orchid, the two sides of a leaf, and why a plant needs the bear necessities.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
Lemurs, people-pleasing flowers, interactions between plants and pollinators, an interview with Larissa Verona and more.
Sarah Covshoff ·
The Week in Botany
Photosynthesis hidden in hornworts, who works to sustain the Amazon rainforest and why plants aren't passive.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
Calling in the Dark, Plants and Microbes Healing Soils and Discoveries Everywhere.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
An ancient spiral, arctic palms, tomato's dawn and more.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week: We introduce Paleo Week and recap how a plant long thought to be extinct was recently rediscovered in the wild
Sarah Covshoff ·
The Week in Botany
This week: Our Digital Botany Month draws to an end, how plants remember stress and more.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week: The human connection to digital botany and what we know about the plants closest to extinction.
Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra ·
The Week in Botany
This week: The human connection to digital botany and what we know about the plants closest to extinction.
Sarah Covshoff ·
The Week in Botany
This week: Tools for digital botany, secret photosynthesis and the shifting habitats of state flowers.
Sarah Covshoff ·
The Week in Botany
This week: the first week of our Focus Issue on Digital Botany, perfumes to save endangered species, plus urban byrophytes and lichens.
Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra, Sarah Covshoff ·
The Week in Botany
This week: Sweet potatoes on Mars, floral snouts, and a researcher working on nature-based solutions for controlling nematodes.
Carlos A. Ordóñez-Parra, Sarah Covshoff ·