Getting reacquainted with nature could be as easy as a walk in your local park, thanks to a new concept for creating informal botanical gardens throughout cities.
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Dale Maylea
A.I. Assistant
Much Plant Life Is Invisible to AI
ChatGPT may know a lot, but when it comes to botany basics, this AI still has a lot to learn according to researchers who gave it a "plant awareness" quiz.
Alun Salt
Plants parade for passport picture
A survey invites the public to suggest plants and animals for illustrating Ireland's passports, showing one way to raise appreciation for nature's diversity.
Nigel Chaffey
Curious about plants? Let’s have a word (or two… hundred and fifty)
If you've ever wondered what Orchidelirium is, then this might be the book for you.
The Missing Plants of the Palaeolithic
Prehistoric peoples moved in a world where intimate knowledge of plants would have been vital, so why don't they appear in European Cave Art?
Renata Cantoro
Plant science, the secret’s out!
The Science of Plants: Inside their secret world by Dorling Kindersley, 2022. Dorling Kindersley, published in association with Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. I had a great sense of déjà vu (Stephanie Pappas) when looking...
House plants – the exotic within the home
Should African Violets have a conservation tariff to help protect their natural habitats? A new book asks some serious questions about the plants with which we share our homes.
Crime Scene Botanics, the forensic side of botany
Planting Clues should not only appeal to the general reader, but will also serve well as a textbook for an undergraduate course on forensic botany.
Greening the next generation
The Green Planet by Leisa Stewart–Sharpe and Kim Smith, 2022. Puffin Books (an imprint of the Penguin Random House group of companies). Not so long ago I appraised The Green Planet by Simon Barnes. Although I had...
Are Botanists Threatened with Extinction?
Scientists argue that we won't be able to protect the natural world, if we're not training the next generation of botanists with the necessary skills, writes Sebastian Stroud.
Plant parables for the 21st Century
A lifestyle guide where plants take the lead instead of sitting in the background.
Merlin’s magnificent mushroom masterpiece
A fascinating book examines fungi not as something apart from the rest of the world, but as something intertwined with other life on the planet.
Plant blindness eradicated *
Side-view of the human eye, viewed approximately 90 degrees temporal, illustrating how the iris and pupil appear rotated towards the viewer due to the optical properties of the cornea, by Paul Savage Plant blindness...
