Long before forests of tall trees covered the planet, Earth was ruled by something stranger: towering, trunk like organisms that rose roughly 26 feet into the air. New analysis of exquisitely ...

This collection consists of one plant catalog and one folder containing addenda to the catalog. Josephine Mason Milligan collected plants in primarily in Illinois, but no geographic locations are ...

Step inside Orlando’s Chocolate Museum & Cafe for chocolate sculptures, guided tastings, and a fun, family friendly ...

A teacher has won a significant legal battle in the Himachal Pradesh High Court. She was denied an assistant professor ...

The past month, stores and radio airwaves have been filled with Christmas music. Every year we hear our favorite holiday ...

Carnivorous plants look like botanical oddities, but their behavior is not a gimmick. It is a precise evolutionary solution ...

Some books don’t knock you over while you’re reading them. They slip in sideways. You finish the last page, put it down, and ...

Dan Henry Nicolson (1933-2016) was a curator at the U.S. National Herbarium, National Museum of Natural History, from 1964 to 2005. He specialized in the plant family Araceae, Asian botany, and ...

Ever thought about the relationship between trees and ships? Led by researcher and curator Abhishek Khan, the Botany of Ships ...

The story of dragon’s blood spans folklore, botany and biochemistry. Here’s how it teaches us how trees respond to injury with blood-red resilience.

A new bill in the Washington senate would require Washington State University to establish a heritage orchard program.

Citizen science platforms, including iNaturalist, are leading to major new discoveries and are becoming crucial to the work ...