A major study of botanic gardens around the world has revealed their struggles with one fundamental aim: to safeguard the world's most threatened plants from extinction. Researchers analyzed a ...

The world's botanic gardens must pull together to protect global plant biodiversity in the face of the extinction crisis, amid restrictions on wild-collecting, say researchers. A major study of ...

Medicinal plants have historically played a vital role in veterinary practices across the globe. Over the past century, European veterinarians have ...

Recently, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York, I had a dream come true. I got a whiff of one of the world’s stinkiest ...

A major study of botanic gardens around the world has revealed their struggles with one fundamental aim: to safeguard the world’s most threatened plants from extinction. Researchers analysed a ...

A university plant quiz competition has helped to address the decline in botanical education, a new study shows.

at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The rare plant smells of rotting flesh to attract pollinators like beetles and flies that are typically drawn to dead animals. It only flowers every three to five ...

Putricia the big stinky corpse flower which bloomed at the botanic gardens in Sydney on Thursday has been visited by almost 20,000 people. Almost a million more have followed the plant's journey ...

It was the first time in 15 years that a corpse flower has bloomed at the Royal Sydney Botanic Garden. That plant’s flower was also spotted in December, when it was 10 inches (25 centimeters ...

Illinois College's orchid research continues to bloom with a new book release and international collaborations highlighting ...

More than 16,000 people have already visited Putricia since Friday, and the Botanic Gardens will stay open ... who are interested in this plant and how it’s growing”. “As you can see ...

NEW YORK — A rare corpse flower has bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden ... for the odor emanating from the plant, named "Smelliott" by staff and the garden's social media followers.