During May 2010, sporocarps of what appeared to be an Armillaria sp. were found in large clumps in historic Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens on the foot of Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa. These sporocarps could be physically linked to the roots of unidentified dead trees and Protea spp. The aim of this study was to identify the Armillaria sp. found fruiting in Kirstenbosch. To achieve th...

Botanical gardens have contributed to plant conservation through the maintenance of both living and preserved specimens for decades. However, there is still a large gap in literature about potential value that botanical could provide local pollinators. We investigated how plant-pollinator interaction network structure diversity may differ between native habitats by sampling comparing two enviro...

Abstract Food gardens are an underdeveloped resource for teaching and research in Australian universities. While some campuses have food or botanical gardens, outside the biological physical sciences growing is not routinely incorporated into mainstream curricula. This article investigates why how we might change this. It examines universities’ traditional reliance on classroom-based, non-exper...

Archibald Menzies, the 2nd son of a Highland gardener, was born in 1754. His father was the head gardener at Castle Menzies near Loch Tay, and the clan leader's distant relative. From him Archibald learnt respect for authority and the joy of growing things. In an atmosphere of secure prosperity young Archibald had a good practical and general education, working in the Castle gardens and grounds...

(Ethnobotany of rural people from the boundaries of Carlos Botelho State Park, São Paulo State, Brazil). In this article we describe and analyze the use of plant resources in a region nearby a conservation area. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, in which we asked the interviewees to free list the plants known. Species cited were identified through collection of botanical s...

Living botanical collections include germplasm repositories, long-term experimental plantings, and botanical gardens. We present here a series of vignettes to illustrate the central role that living collections have played in plant biology research, including evo-devo research. Looking toward the future, living collections will become increasingly important in support of future evo-devo researc...

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William J. Baker1,*, Maria V. Norup1,2, James J. Clarkson1, Thomas L. P. Couvreur3, John L. Dowe4, Carl E. Lewis5, Jean-Christophe Pintaud6, Vincent Savolainen1,7, Tomas Wilmot1 and Mark W. Chase1 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB, UK, Department of Biological Sciences, Aarhus University, Building 1540, Ny Munkegade, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark, The New York Botanical Garden, 2...

—The African diaspora to the Americas was one of plants as well as people. European slavers provisioned their human cargoes with African and other Old World useful plants, which enabled their enslaved work force and free maroons to establish them in their gardens. Africans were additionally familiar with many Asian plants from earlier crop exchanges with the Indian subcontinent. Their efforts e...

Understanding plant evolution and diversity in a phylogenomic context is an enormous challenge due, in part, to limited availability of genome-scale data across phylodiverse species. The 10KP (10,000 Plants) Genome Sequencing Project will sequence and characterize representative genomes from every major clade of embryophytes, green algae, and protists (excluding fungi) within the next 5 years. ...