Say you walk into an office building. On the reception desk is a nice, lush, green-leafed plant with white dots on it. You think, “how nice and outdoorsy.” Chances are it's a deathly, toxic plant ...

The Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh has appealed to the Pakistani government to release more than 4,000 copies of a botany text book destined for Afghanistan. The 10 tonnes of books have been held ...

THE want of special works introductory to the study of the botany of the principal tropical and southern countries of the globe has long been felt. The medical man, the student, and the amateur ...

Gardeners who have resolved this year to delve deeper into how horticulturists and botanists identify and group plants may be interested in a book that is something of a tutorial in classification ...

WE do not think that botany can be taught with advantage to children from books. No method of teaching seems so well adapted to the wants of junior students as that of demonstration. A flower pulled ...

Botany Library hosts book launch for The Maket Whitebait - Ngati nanga n Maket Botany Library is delighted to host the launch of local author Candice Reading's children's picture book The Maket« ...

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When I was a kid, the plant world was a narrow and unlovely terrain enclosing only weeding (yuck) or soppy love poems (double yuck). But if "The Big, Bad Book of Botany" had come my way, I would have ...

A historian has added another portrait to the collection of portraits of William Shakespeare, who is not known to have commissioned even one over the centuries, but is best known by the image that ...