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Bissy (Cola acuminata) fruit pod, seeds, and grated seeds, to make bissy tea, a morning tea and medicinal beverage

Caribbean traditional plant knowledge needs recognition or it’s lost: Study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Jan 2024
One of the six newly described chameleons from Tanzania

Photos: Top species discoveries from 2023

Liz Kimbrough 27 Dec 2023
Since 2014, Nerea Turreira-Garcia and Dimitris Argyriou have worked with Indigenous communities in Cambodia's Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary to identify species of flora and their uses to the communities. Image by Nerea Turreira-Garcia and Dimitris Argyriou.

‘Immense body of knowledge’ at stake in Cambodia’s Prey Lang as deforestation soars

Gerald Flynn 13 Dec 2023
Getting plant species on the Red List often leads to greater habitat protections and conservation funding. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Nearly half of the world’s flowering plants face the threat of extinction, study says

Joseph Howlett 4 Dec 2023
Mushrooms

Gone before we know them? Kew’s ‘State of the World’s Plants and Fungi’ report warns of extinctions

Liz Kimbrough 10 Oct 2023

‘Lost’ Brazilian holly tree species found again after nearly 200 years

Liz Kimbrough 21 Sep 2023

Transgenics contaminate a third of Brazil’s traditional corn in semiarid region

Adriana Amâncio 1 Sep 2023
Rafflesia flower.

Philippines research offers hope for conserving enigmatic Rafflesia plants

Mikael Angelo S. Francisco 3 Jul 2023
Two researchers measuring a Victoria boliviana leaf.

Kew Gardens joins local partners to save tropical plants from extinction

Sue Branford 15 Feb 2023
Gotu kola image by Shahidul Hasan Roman via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

‘War with weeds’ lacks ecological understanding and empathy (commentary)

Nimal Chandrasena 1 Feb 2023

Botanists are disappearing at a critical time

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Jan 2023

Top 15 species discoveries from 2022 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2022
Danaea alansmithii Colombia, Amazonas, Río Caquetá. PHOTO: HANNA TUOMISTO

Between six ferns: New tropical fern species described by science

Liz Kimbrough 19 Jul 2022

‘Right moon for fishing’: Study finds gravitational impacts on plants, animals

Sibélia Zanon 22 Mar 2022

Sixty of one, half a dozen of the other: Rare magnolias get a new start in Ecuador’s Chocó

Liz Kimbrough, Maxwell Radwin 31 Jan 2022

Not your ordinary houseplant: World’s tallest begonia found in Tibet

Liz Kimbrough 7 Jan 2022

Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2021

Light exhibits at Indonesian botanic garden spark commercialization concerns

Ahmad Supardi, Rahmadi Rahmad 19 Oct 2021

Follow the butterfly: Rediscovery of ‘extinct’ plants highlights Sri Lanka’s new red list

Malaka Rodrigo 12 Oct 2021

A bouquet of discovery: Three new orchid species described from Ecuador

Liz Kimbrough 20 Aug 2021

New species of “killer tobacco” found at Australian truck stop

Liz Kimbrough 11 Aug 2021

When it comes to carbon capture, tree invasions can do more harm than good

Liz Kimbrough 21 Jun 2021
Photo: The newly discovered orchid, Epidendrum katarun-yariku. Image courtesy of Mateusz Wrazidlo.

New orchid species from Guiana Highlands named by Indigenous group

Liz Kimbrough 15 Jan 2021
Pit Viper in striking mode. The 'mountain fer-de-lance' is a new species of pit viper that was discovered on the Zongo RAP survey. It has since been described as Bothrops monsignifer. Bothrops is a genus of pit vipers endemic to Central and South America. The generic name, Bothrops, is derived from the Greek words βόθρος, bothros, meaning "pit", and ώπς, ops, meaning "eye" or "face", together an allusion to the heat-sensitive loreal pit organs.

[Photos] Tiny frog, venomous viper among 20 new species described in Bolivia

Liz Kimbrough 14 Dec 2020

Podcast: Lemur love and award-winning plant passion in Madagascar

Mike Gaworecki 11 Nov 2020
Victoria amazonica. © Sir Ghillean Prance

Amazon botanist Sir Ghillean Prance: ‘The environmental crisis is a moral one’

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Oct 2020
Rainbow over the Colombian Amazon. Photo © Wade Davis

Colombia, ethnobotany, and America’s decline: An interview with Wade Davis

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Oct 2020
Cacao pod in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Latin America has twice the plant life of Africa, SE Asia

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2020
a tree fern savanna in the Cromwell Mountains of Papua New Guinea courtesy of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Study revealing New Guinea’s plant life ‘first step’ toward protection

John Cannon 25 Aug 2020

In the Scottish moorlands, plots planted with trees stored less carbon than untouched lands: Study

Liz Kimbrough 18 Aug 2020
This local guide located a Rhododendron in bloom in the Cromwell Mountains of Papua New Guinea. Credit RBG Kew

New Guinea has the most plant species of any island

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Aug 2020
Oil palm fruit in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Dayak women of Indonesia resist gender inequality exacerbated by palm oil production

Lauren Bowman 7 May 2020

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