Botany
Tom Mirenda on Orchids
The Natural History Museum's orchid expert talks about the beloved flowers
April 2011 |
By Megan Gambino
The Secrets Behind Your Flowers
Chances are the bouquet you're about to buy came from Colombia. What's behind the blooms?
February 2011 |
By John McQuaid
The Story of Bartram's Garden
Outside of Philadelphia, America's first botanical garden once supplied seeds to Founding Fathers and continues to inspire plant-lovers today
April 13, 2010 |
By Robin T. Reid
The Great British Tea Heist
Botanist Robert Fortune traveled to China and stole trade secrets of the tea industry, discovering a fraud in the process
March 09, 2010 |
By Sarah Rose
The Venus Flytrap's Lethal Allure
Native only to the Carolinas, the carnivorous plant that draws unwitting insects to its spiky maw now faces dangers of its own
February 2010 |
By Abigail Tucker
Cracking the DNA Code
On a small island near Washington, D.C., Smithsonian researchers have found a genetic code that could revolutionize botany
August 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
The Cahaba: A River of Riches
An unsung Alabama waterway is one of the most biologically diverse places in the nation, home to rare flora and fauna
August 2009 |
By Michelle Nijhuis
Flowers Writ Large
With his Botanica Magnifica, podiatrist-turned-photographer Jonathan Singer captures flowers on the grandest of scales
May 21, 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
What's Killing the Aspen?
The signature tree of the Rockies is in trouble
December 2008 |
By Michelle Nijhuis
Photo Find
With a rolleiflex camera, a pioneering botanist documented his fieldwork—and created art
August 2008 |
By Kenneth R. Fletcher
Arctic Dispatch: Thermokarst and Toolik
The team studies consequences of the Arctic’s warming temperatures
July 03, 2008 |
By Christine Dell’Amore
35 Who Made a Difference: Mark Plotkin
An ethnobotanist takes up the cause of rain forest conservation
November 01, 2005 |
By Elizabeth Royte
Fakahatchee Ghosts
But no exorcisms, please these rare orchids are the stars of a hit movie and a best-selling book
August 2003 |
By Jack McClintock
Sherlock of Spuds
In a case that could reveal the villain behind the Irish Potato Famine, the gumshoe is a plant scientist
December 2002 |
By T. Edward Nickens
