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Jewels from the Mud: The Elegance of Water Lilies
The Cactus’s Doppelgänger: Convergence in the Desert
Chasing the green fairy: Absinthe, fact and fiction
Was Chicago named after a wild onion?
Lush Vegetation: 5 Questions with Amy Stewart, Author of The Drunken Botanist
The Little-Known History of the Logan Square Catalpa Trees
Tree Planting Event Will Bring Fresh Beauty, Urban Vitality to Logan Boulevard
Botanical Barbarity: 9 Plant Defense Mechanisms
The myth of the Chilean plant that supposedly murdered sheep
The curious case of the Osage orange and the megafauna extinction
What makes ricin toxic: A complicated history
The mysterious origins of patchouli
The tumbleweed invasion
The revery alone won’t do: Restoring America’s prairies
What is it about baobab trees that makes them so captivating?
The Botany of Sustainability – the three species defining our future
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