Tag: History
You can’t beat a good book
This plant book is amazing
A book that considers not only how plants have nourished the body, but also the soul.
Sketch by Goethe may be first depiction of intraspecific trait variation
Though the phenomenon was known in Goethe’s time, research didn’t start in earnest for another century.
Tackling plant blindness: Botany by stealth…
School lessons devoted to plants may be off-putting to those students who are already plant-averse. So, why not smuggle bits of plant information into lessons on topics as diverse as Geography, History, Art & Design, and Computing to show how relevant plants are?
One hundred and twenty-five years of the Annals of Botany
By August 2012, the Annals of Botany had been published without a break for 125 years.