SANTA CRUZ — Many might not immediately associate Sherlock Holmes with botanist Alice Eastwood, but to Santa Cruz author Peggy Townsend, there are a lot of parallels between detectives and scientists.

THESE delicately detailed representations of medicinal plants are the work of Leonhart Fuchs, a 16th-century German physician and botanist commonly considered one of the founding figures of modern ...

During the nineteen-seventies and eighties, a researcher at the University of Washington started noticing something strange in the college’s experimental forest. For years, a blight of caterpillars ...

Stephen Smith just wanted to study honeysuckle. As a new PhD student at Yale University in 2003, “I was going to do a strict monograph,” says Smith. But when he sat down to research the evolution of ...

If you are a proud plant parent in your home or at the office, it is very likely that you have come across the perfect succulent that is resilient and flexible to fit a variety of spaces. Chances are ...