botany
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Helen Litchfield, secretary of the botany section at La Société Guernesiaise, said the team's efforts in propagating the dwarf pansy meant it was no longer at risk.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
"Through this paper, we aim to raise awareness of forensic botany and encourage law enforcement to recognize the value of even the smallest plant fragments during investigations."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 1, 2026
First, a botany crash-course: You can’t just plant a seed from your favorite apple to grow more of them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
"It covers a very significant amount of area," Naomi Fraga, director of conservation at the California Botanic Garden and research assistant professor of botany at Claremont Graduate University, told Salon.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2024
She saved me with never asking questions, with instead reading to me about bees and botany and evolution.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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From it I have sent to scientists flowers and vines not then classified and illustrated in our botanies.
From Moths of the Limberlost by Stratton-Porter, Gene
The fruit-bearing palms require a chapter to themselves in the botanies, and are a source of surprising wealth.
From Modern India by Curtis, William Eleroy
The "virtues of flowers" took a prominent place in the descriptions in old-time botanies.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse
With a sentiment of wonder and inquiry, not unmixed with mystery, do we regard many flowers, which are described in our botanies as Garden Escapes.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse
It was the germander speedwell that in literature and botanies alike was most commonly known as the forget-me-not for more than two hundred years, or until only fifty years ago.
From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Blanchan, Neltje
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