Introducing a new citizen science nature app that's geared towards the scientific community

Identifying weeds, checking out the pollen map, or discovering new plant life-forms are among the promising wealth of data ...
Tallahassee Democrat

Breaking the spell: Learn the trick of decoding scientific plant names

Passiflora incarnata, Nymphaea odorata, Chamaecrista fasciculata, Asclepius incarnata! Sounds like spells from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, doesn’t it? While these words could come ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A New, Endemic Tree Species Discovered in an Indigenous Area is Already Threatened

Botanists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) named the new species, Clusia nanophylla, because of the tiny size of the leaves, the smallest within the genus. This species has only ...
Business Wire

LeafWorks Expands Botanical Species ID Testing to Cover the Top 75 Herbs and Fungi for Natural Products and Foods

SEBASTOPOL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LeafWorks, a trailblazing botanical genomics and testing company for natural products, today announced the expansion of its DNA-based species identification ...