Botanic Notables: The Largest Genome
A genome is an organism's hereditary information—its DNA—and Biologists have been studying them since the early 20th century. Genome sizes vary a lot, and the numbers can be very surprising. To wit,...
View ArticleArt & Botany: Endangered, Illustrated & Inked
An endangered species is threatened with impermanence; its inked likeness is not. This is the founding metaphor of extInked, a project conceived by the Ultimate Holding Company, an art collective in...
View ArticleBotanic Notables: Minnesota's Showy Lady's Slipper Orchid
If you're planning a wild orchid hunt, you could paddle through the mangroves of Papua New Guinea, or adventure into the Colombian rainforests. Or, you could consider a trip to Minnesota.read more
View ArticleArt + Botany: Plants in Peril
If you're in or around London this weekend, consider a visit to Plants in Periland Losing Paradise, two exhibitions at Kew Botanical Gardens. Curated from the Shirley Sherwood Collection at Kew, the...
View ArticleBotanic Notables: Albino Redwoods
If you wander long enough in California's redwood forests—long enough to believe that the color spectrum has been condensed into infinite shades of greens and browns—you might stumble on an anomalous...
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