Environment
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass is still an essential read
This 2013 book by an Indigenous botanist is a quietly urgent act of healing that forces Western science to look at the world in a different way
Culture
Life
Paramotorists collect rare plant species from Peruvian desert oases
Video
Life
Rare corpse flower that stinks of rotting flesh blooms at Kew Gardens
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Life
Orchids feed their young through underground fungal connections
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Life
Is it time to do away with species names that honour odious people?
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Life
Odd parasitic plant with fleshy flowers identified as new species
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Environment
The surprising origin of sprouts, the vegetable we either love or hate
Features
Humans
Don’t Miss: A fantastical journey through The Science of Middle Earth
Culture
Humans
Planting Clues review: Intriguing tales about plants’ role in crime
Culture
Life
Hurricane that hit Jamaica helped low-lying trees spread to mountains
Hurricane Gilbert struck Jamaica in 1988, and the damage it left in its wake might have allowed warm-adapted trees that normally grow at low altitudes to take root on the island’s mountains
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Life
Newly identified species is the world’s largest known giant water lily
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Life
Rediscovered orchid was presumed extinct for almost a century
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Life
Beautiful images illustrate the dawn of modern botany
Regulars
Life
Newly identified tree species named in honour of Leonardo DiCaprio
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