Botany & Plant Sciences

An illustrated guide to the most spectacular floral region on earth The Silk Road - a name that has enchanted for centuries. Yet a well kept secre...

Most people can readily identify a forest, or a grassland, or a wetland - these are the simple labels we give different plant communities. The aim ...

Wild Plants for a Sustainable Future is an output from The Useful Plants Project, managed by Kews Seed Conservation Department through the Millenni...

In the mysterious and pristine forests of the tropics, a wealth of ethnobotanical panaceas and shamanic knowledge promises cures for everything fro...

At the tips of our forks and on our dinner plates, a buffet of botanical dalliance awaits us. Sex and food are intimately intertwined, and this rel...

Many a beautiful plant cultivated to deformity, and arranged in strict geometrical beds, the whole pretty affair a laborious failure side by side w...

Since 1621, and the foundation of the Oxford Botanic Garden, Oxford has built up an outstanding collection of plant specimens, botanical illustrati...