When strolling through a garden center or flipping through a plant catalog, you’ll often notice two distinct names on each tag: a common name and a botanical name. While the common name feels friendly ...

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 ...

Interested in tracking down some of the zoo's plants for your own garden or greenhouse? To make it easier, here are the botanical names of the plants we found during our visit.

Since the mid-1700s, researchers have classified life on Earth with scientific names, a two-word moniker like Homo sapiens. But some of these names are weighed down by problematic histories and ...

During any time of the year when you are shopping for plants, you might find the names of the plants hard to understand or confusing. This is because every plant has two completely different types of ...

There is a tree-like plant in our ecosystem that grows rapidly and reaches heights of up to thirty feet, and produces giant, sweet neon-orange fruits that contain a lot of meat-tenderizing enzymes in ...

Scientific name of Tulsi: Walk into any traditional Indian home, and chances are you’ll spot a lovely, aromatic herb thriving in the courtyard or on a balcony. We're talking about Tulsi, or Holy Basil ...