The Week in Botany November 17, 2025
This week, life after fire, how history aids ecology and an arms race between plants and bugs.
This week, life after fire, how history aids ecology and an arms race between plants and bugs.
This week, a fertiliser time-bomb, a taxonomic mistake that led to some odd results, and the fascination of seeds.
For 20 years, Mexican communities accidentally planted millions of endangered trees, while simultaneously logging thousands in their natural habitat, without knowing it.
Long-term declines in nutrients, and soil damage, have been turbo-charged by the Russian invasion. But a new plan may help restore some of the world’s most fertile soils.
This week, toxic nectar, the hidden ecosystem and orchids.
This week, your sensory superpowers, an accidental community, the largest herbarium in Africa and more...
This week, the creepiest pollinator, ghost herbaria and the hidden world of fungi.
This week, an unusual shield, beads to save ecosystems, and what makes a plant a phoenix.
Jonathan Drori shows plants are worth treasuring, by treasuring his young readers.
This week, nature and nurture, the long life of a rose, and Dr. Stefanie Ickert-Bond on the importance of taxonomy.
This week, the complexity of plants, and the bodyguards that don't help you get pollinated.
This week, scary bodyguards, local references and why you should treat plants with kindness.
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