The Week in Botany
The Week in Botany October 13, 2025
This week, an unusual shield, beads to save ecosystems, and what makes a plant a phoenix.
The Week in Botany
This week, an unusual shield, beads to save ecosystems, and what makes a plant a phoenix.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week, nature and nurture, the long life of a rose, and Dr. Stefanie Ickert-Bond on the importance of taxonomy.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week, the complexity of plants, and the bodyguards that don’t help you get pollinated.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week, scary bodyguards, local references and why you should treat plants with kindness.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week extraordinary fungal knowledge, violas that survive arsenic, and Ramiro Aguilar on the importance of observation.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week, a loss of immunity, a gain of parasites and untold stories of plant evolution.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week, why Taylor Swift might be good for plants and why Northern Irish rock group Ash might not be.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week, urban biodiversity, logging into the Wood Wide Web, and an email bug.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week, Liedson Carneiro on networking, gunfire doesn’t stop Botany, how dinosaurs got along with each other, and more.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week, Juliane Ishida on her work with parasitic plants, how poor timing can spur flower evolution and a carnivorous plant that will you have your hand off, if you have tiny hands.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week we have a plant that’s gone its own way, how you can know a tree as an individual and Duarte Figueiredo on the hidden complexity of plant biology.
Alun Salt ·
The Week in Botany
This week we have a project to spotlight women’s role in botany, an interview with Ana Bedoya and her work on aquatic plants, and why flowers are about more than pollinators.
Alun Salt ·