botany

The history and mystery of these botanicals go way beyond the Magi.

The specimen had been sitting at the Field Museum since the early 1970s.

This North American herb uses its glistening, reddish hairs to snare bugs.

Murraya paniculata shared a piece of the limelight with the winner, Zaila Avant-garde.

Really this says more about how strange the category "vegetable" is than about corn itself.

The alpine plant shoots the substance out of holes in its cell walls.

It took 13 years to confirm the weird appendage wasn’t a genetic anomaly.

These resilient plants are part of a centuries-long experiment at Michigan State University.

When languages die, so do entire generations of botanical knowledge.

The future is fungal.