The findings have been published today in the Nordic Journal of Botany. The team of botanists, from Oxford University and the University of the Philippines Los Baños, made the discovery during an ...

Botanists have voted to change the name of more than 200 plants to remove a word associated with a racial slur. Following a six-day session involving more than 100 researchers, it was agreed as ...

How does the same plant grow in both North and South America, but on either side of the tropics? Join the Del Mar Garden Club ...

In the few remaining patches of cloud forest in western Ecuador, a team of botanists and ecologists just found a flowering herb that scientists hadn’t seen in 40 years. Its extinction seemed so ...

Botanical exploration in all manner of vegetation (especially exciting in the lush rainforests of Borneo!), specimen curation ...

CHINA DAILY While the majority of Chinese botanists have directed their research efforts toward studying the rich flora of China, a select few have ventured into the unexplored realms of African ...

New Guinea has the highest plant diversity of any island in the world, botanists have discovered. The first full inventory of plants on the world's largest tropical island reveals a treasure trove ...

I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host of golden ...

Borneo. (Credit: Alastair Robinson.) An international team of botanists report they have just described a new species of giant pitcher plant that lives in a tiny area in the mountains on Borneo.

Botanists José Luis Fernández-Alonso, of the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid, and Ernesto Campos, research technician at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama ...

The team of botanists made the discovery during an expedition to the remote Barangay Balbalasang rainforest on the island of Luzon in 2022. This almost impenetrable wilderness takes days to reach ...

Researchers have named six new tree species based on comparisons made among collections of dried plant specimens from across the Neotropics. Of these six, three of the new species have only been found ...