Not to be confused with the famous tree varieties of the same name native to the Chicago area or the Sonoran Desert, this ironwood (also called ironweed) refers to the South Asian Memecylon umbellatum ...

They are also high in antioxidants that protect against cellular damage and inflammation. Pili nuts are edible tree nuts from the Canarium ovatum tree, a tree native to rainforests in Asia, Africa, ...

Rudbeckia hirta. Solanum lycopersicum. Acer saccharum. Have you ever seen these names on plant tags or seed packets and wondered where they came from? We can thank Carl Linnaeus for taxonomy, the ...

When I looked more closely at the seed packet, I noticed that the botanical, or scientific, name was actually Solanum scabrum, not the Vaccinium ovatum I was hoping for. Next time you spot an ...