Addisonia
Addisonia: Colored Illustrations and Popular Descriptions of Plants was a journal published by…
Frances W. Horne
Frances Horne was an academic, an artist and a botanist. She earned her…
Augustine Henry
Augustine Henry was one of the first and most prolific western botanists to collect in Central China,…
Jeanne Baret
CollectorsWomen in ScienceExpeditions
Jeanne Baret was the first woman ever to circumnavigate the globe, but…
The Lemmons: Partners in Botany
Sara Plummer met John Gill Lemmon in 1876 when he came to…
Pitcher Plants
Pitcher Plants sometimes attract insects to their specialized leaves with nectar or…
Sundews
Sundews. Drosera is the largest genus of carniverous plants, with almost 200…
Venus flytrap
Even though Venus Fly Traps are widely available as cultivated plants, they…
Mary Emily Eaton
Mary Emily Eaton was an accomplished natural history illustrator employed at the…
Fig family, Moraceae
Ficus carica L., the edible common fig has been cultivated for millenia.…
Corpse Flower
Another famous plant in the Araceae family is the Titan Arum or…
Air plants
Specimen StoriesFocus on Science
The little air plant in your house that you mist every day could…
Spider Plant
The spider plant is in the genus Chlorophytum which contains almost 200 species, mostly originating…
Begonias
The genus Begonia contains over 1800 species. They are native to tropical…
Marantaceae, Arrowroot family
Marantaceae, the Arrowroot family, is thought to have originated in Africa, though much of…
Skunk Cabbage
Specimen StoriesFocus on Science
A locally occuring arum in the northeast U.S., skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus…
Philodendron
Specimen StoriesFocus on Science
Greek: Philo- (love) dendron (tree) There are close to 500 species of…