Quotes About Botany

Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me.

Working on the native-herb garden in the front corner of the yard. Already thriving: thyme, hyssop, spearmint, lemon balm, fennel, chamomile, marjoram. Must add: lavender, ambrosia, valerian, mugwort, pennyroyal, gillyflower, and (when it's warmer) sweet basil.

Did I know any useful spells? Why no, I sure didn't. But go on, ask me the Latin name of, like, foxglove. Digitalis purpurea. You're welcome.

Ginger is often called a root, but it is actually a rhizome, which means it is an underground stem that sends shoots and roots laterally in all directions. This is why ginger often looks so gnarly and knobby, making it tough to know where to get started when prepping it.

Algunas de las plantas tienen nombres de esquela necrológica: luisa, rosa, ruda, melisa. Algunas, como la reina de los prados y la vellorita, la caléndula o la eufrasia, parecen nombres de hadas de Shakespeare. La lengua cerval con su olor a vainilla dulce. El olmo escocés, otro astringente natural.

Delphinium scopulorum, better known as Rocky Mountain larkspur, wasn't just cardiotoxic; it had neuromuscular blocking effects, shutting down a body limb by limb until paralysis set in. Then death.

While we've taken seeds into space, and astronauts on the International Space Station have eaten lettuce they've grown, we haven't produced fruit in space, so we can't pollinate something.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.

When Wilde composed his works he surrounded himself with books. A friend remembered him writing a poem 'with a botanical work in front of him from which he . . . [selected] the names of flowers most pleasing to the ear to plant in his garden of verse'.5 Aubrey Beardsley's caricature of Wilde, 'Oscar Wilde at Work', shows the author at his desk surrounded by mountains of books.

Those are the little seed-producing flowers, and the long catkins, they only produce pollen, to fertilise them.' 'Do they, do they!' repeated Hermione, looking closely. 'From those little red bits, the nuts come; if they receive pollen from the long danglers.

It all began with the word itself. Grass. Gramina. The family Gramineae. Grasses. Oh, I responded doubtfully. The picture in my mind was only of a vague area in parks edged with benches for the idle.

To make collections of wild flowers for the several months, press them, and mount them neatly on squares of cartridge paper, with the English name, habitat, and date of finding each, affords much happy occupation and, at the same time, much useful training: better still is it to accustom children to make careful brush drawings for the flowers that interest them, of the whole plant where possible.

Plants — light and life grown green

Welwitschia mirabilis.

We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.

Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well.

By sniffing and licking anything that oozed from trees, colonial botanists found that Australia abounded in interesting exudates.

Roses belong to the set R

Has any botanist set down what the seed of love is? Has it anywhere been set down in how many ways this seed may be sown? In what various vessels of gossamer it can float across wide spaces? Or upon what different soils it can fall, and live unknown, and bide its time for blooming?

I don't know a thing about cats. I know everything else, life and its archipelago, seas and unpredictable cities, botany, the pistil and its scandals, the pluses and minuses of math. I know the earth's volcanic funnels and the crocodile's unreal shell, the fireman's unseen kindness and the priest's blue atavism. cat leave But a cat I can't figure out. My mind slipped on its indifference. Its eyes hold ciphers of gold.

Each little flower has a history and cultural references, is a superstition or a cure for something.

I was looking down at a little sprig of mahonia growing out of the turf, its oxblood leaves like buffed pigskin.

What an enthusiastic devotion is that which sends a man from the attractions of home, the ties of neighbourhood, the bonds of country, to range plains, valleys, hills, mountains, for a new flower.

The table gives major crops, of five crop classes, from early agricultural sites in various parts of the world. Square brackets enclose names of crops first domesticated elsewhere; names not enclosed in brackets refer to local domesticates. Omitted are crops that arrived or became important only later, such as bananas in Africa, corn and beans in the eastern United States, and sweet potato in New Guinea. Cottons are four species of the genus