Theobrominated

Veronica colostylis from near Arrowtown, New Zealand. In autumn 2011 I wrote about Lammas flowering, when spring- or summer-flowering p...

Every so often there's a bit of a fuss over some nightshade berries found in peas, and it's made worse by people confusin...

A while ago, I wrote about the spectacular Lobelia physaloides and its relationships to other New Zealand Lobelia s. At the time I didn...

Brassica fruticulosa , Karori, Wellington Mediterranean mustard ( Brassica fruticulosa subsp. mauritanica ) is a characteristic Welling...

Many people think of botanists simply as people who can rattle off the Latin names of plants.  Charles Dickens seemed to be reflect...

A couple of my favourite blogs and websites have regular weekly features.  Pharyngula has Mary's Monday Metazoan , Friday Cephalopod , ...

Read any Flora, and you'll find each plant species' description starts with a statement about what kind of plant it is (tree, shrub,...