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Topic: Botany

A man measures the leaves of the Rafflesia Arnoldii flower at Palupuah Forest, Agam District, West Sumatra, Indonesia on September 16, 2024. (Getty Images / Anadolu / Contributor)

Flowers that stink: It's science!

Troy Farah
A Palestinian woman shakes olives to filter off leaves during the olive harvest at a grove outside Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on November 11, 2023. (ARIS MESSINIS / Getty Images)

The archeobotany of occupation

Rae Hodge
Colorful poppies and other wildflowers at the Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve one hour north of Los Angeles, drawing visitors to a "super bloom" on March 31, 2019, near Lancaster, California. (George Rose/Getty Images)

Tourists could ruin Cali "superbloom"

Troy Farah
Small sack of coffee (Getty Images/A. Martin UW Photography)

Why coffee could go extinct

Troy Farah
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Brain Shaped Bonsai Tree (Getty Images/Viaframe)

The new science on plant consciousness

Matthew Rozsa
Triceratops grazing on a magnolia tree next to cycas (Getty Images/Stocktrek Images)

When dinosaurs died, plants thrived

Matthew Rozsa
Saguaro cactus blooming flowers (Margaret Kurzius-Spencer)

Saguaro cactus are flowering "wrong"

Matthew Rozsa
Jane Colden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/WikiCommons)

The botanist snubbed by Linnaeus

Brittany Kenyon-Flatt - Massive Science
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House plants in pots with a bee sitting inside one of the flowers (Getty Images/Shraddha Dharmameher/FOAP)

Finding nature in quarantine

Keith A. Spencer
(Getty Images/knape)

Matthew Rozsa
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Joanna Rothkopf
(AP/Ted S. Warren)

Jacob Leland - Alternet
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Chrisanne Grise - The Fix
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