A Garden of Marvels is a history of botany for those who spaced out during high-school biology class. Leading with examples from everyday life, journalist Ruth Kassinger makes the study of plants a ...

What it is: Right there on the cover of “Flora Mirabilis,” we read that this is an illustrated timeline, which it is indeed. But even more it’s an elegantly written tracing of the history of botany, ...

Our beloved Botany Pond has been part of the UChicago landscape and student experience for 121 years. First opened to the public in 1903, it was the result of professor John Merle Coulter’s vision of ...

EDISTO BEACH, S.C. (WCIV) — Deep into Edisto Island lies the Botany Bay Heritage and Preserve Wildlife Management Area, now owned and operated by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources ...

THE recent review by Prof. F. E. Fritsch 1 of "A Forgotten History of Botany" by Karl F. W. Jessen has reminded me of another little-known book on the same subject, published in 1871 in Paris, under ...

We’ve learned a lot about plants throughout this series, but there’s much more to discover. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll peek into the future of botany. We’ll consider current plant ...

Rebecca Hamilton received fellowship funding from The State Library of NSW for this work. Shane Ingrey is a member of the Gujaga Foundation and the La Perouse Aboriginal Community led research team.

Three researchers have prepared a delightful concoction: equal parts plant science, cultural history and recipe book. The result is Botany at the Bar, an introduction to the fascinating world of ...

“I wish you had been with us last Tuesday down at the Peat Swamp, there are such splendid flowers down there …. We got the smallest and rarest variety of Ladies Slipper or Indian Moccasin plant … the ...