Corpse Flower Queen: Meet Emily Colletti
Any buyer who has been to the Missouri Botanical Yard to see a corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) bloom has seemingly met Emily Colletti. Emily Colletti explaining the corpse flower’s improvement…
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Yarrow (Achillea): The 2024 Herb of the 12 months
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium ‘Pretty Belinda’) blooms inside the William T. Kemper Center for Residence Gardening. Image by Karen Fletcher/Missouri Botanical Yard. Yarrow (Achillea spp.) has been named the 2024 Herb…
5 Vegetation Symbolic Of the Olympic Video video games and Paralympic Video video games
From the oldest Olympiads to in all probability essentially the most fashionable competitions, vegetation have carried out a symbolic and ceremonial perform throughout the Olympic Video video games and Paralympic…
Saving Spring: Rising Unusual and Endangered Magnolias
A magnolia tree blooms inside the Japanese Yard. Image by Kent Burgess. An emblem of spring, magnolias are celebrated for his or her beautiful white and pink flowers that bloom…
Kernels of Custom: Maize Spherical The World on the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum
Kernels of Custom: Maize Throughout the World is the interdisciplinary exhibition at current on present on the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum, open for visitors every day from 11:30 a.m.…
Yard Plans Restoration After Fire Burns 35 Acres of Priceless Forest in Madagascar
When Dinasoa Tahirinirainy acquired a cellphone identify in early October telling him there was a fireplace at a Missouri Botanical Yard conservation house in Madagascar, he wasn’t too frightened. Tahirinirainy…
10 New Plant Species Described by the Missouri Botanical Yard in 2020
Yearly, the Missouri Botanical Yard’s Science and Conservation workers uncover and title about 200 plant species new to science. That’s roughly 10 p.c of all plant species discovered by scientists…
Yard Scientists Describe Unusual New Species of Leafless Orchid
With such a robust distinction from a typical orchid, the other-worldly translucent pink stem and petals of this leafless species are undoubtedly placing. Truly, João Farminhão was so struck by…
Strategies and Strategies for Greater Tree ID
Plant identification is probably going one of many commonest questions acquired by the Horticulture Reply Service on the Missouri Botanical Yard. And it’s an essential one, too. Sooner than you…
Woodlands and Forests of Shaw Nature Reserve
An important habitat of Shaw Nature Reserve consists of woodlands and forest. This habitat affords beautiful sights all yr spherical, nonetheless is perhaps at its most magical throughout the fall.…