#botanical accuracy

Book Review: What Weeds Are Thinking

Plant intelligence is a burgeoning field of research. Despite being predominantly sessile organisms, plants are able to sense their surroundings and make decisions based on environmental cues. In a certain sense, they can see, hear, smell, and remember even though they don’t have eyes, ears, noses, or brains. Not surprisingly, these fascinating findings have spawned books, podcasts, documentaries

Latin name or scientific name, where do you stand?

Recently, the gentlefolk who oversee the Annals of Botany blog site and Mr Cuttings have been engaged in good old-fashioned healthy debate about what to call scientific binomials, those two word official names that every described organism has. And that debate has revolved around whether they should be referred to as ‘Latin names’ or as ‘scientific names’. One of the bilingual English and Latin…

Whither botanical accuracy? ***

By Rkitko – cobbled together by User:Rkitko from images available on Wikimedia Commons., GFDL, Ever-mindful of the pernicious malaise that is ‘plant-blindness’, we at Cuttings HQ are passionate about spreading the word that plants are important, etc. And we rightly applaud attempts that others – non-botanists but generally well-meaning entities such as newspapers or purveyors of plant products,…