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
Horn Farm is now offering a new eight-week training program with intensive foraging classes that cover botany terminology, plant identification, safety best practices, culinary uses and more.
From Salon ● May 30, 2024
And in Vienna—the very place where Mendel had failed his botany exam in 1856—another young botanist, Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg, also rediscovered Mendel’s laws.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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It is to be presumed that it has an unwieldy scientific cognomen in the botanies; but I heard of no common one, except that given by the poet.
From A Bird-Lover in the West by Olive Thorne Miller
The fruit-bearing palms require a chapter to themselves in the botanies, and are a source of surprising wealth.
From Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis
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 Neltje Blanchan
From it I have sent to scientists flowers and vines not then classified and illustrated in our botanies.
From Moths of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
In one season I have located here almost every flower named in the botanies as native to these regions and several that I can find in no book in my library.
From At the Foot of the Rainbow by Gene Stratton-Porter
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