A Plant A Day

What continues to stand out is how naturally systems thinking & complexity science is converging with the way many of […]

The voucher specimen: a pressed plant, carefully preserved and archived, serving as a permanent reference point for identity. In an

One of the hot topics on day two of ICSB: functional mushrooms; and more specifically, the need for proper reference

ICSB is one of the few conferences that truly brings both sides of the conversation into the same room: scientists

Adulteration is the practice of substituting, diluting, or otherwise manipulating a botanical ingredient so that what’s sold is not what

There’s a part of Stefan that secretly wants to be an investigative journalist… In this clip taken from our conversation

The False Daisy (aka. Bhringaraj; Eclipta prostrata) is a small perennial herb in the Asteraceae family originally from the Americas

In this new Explorer’s Way Episode we dive into the dark arts of adulteration. Stefan Gafner walks us through some

In 2025, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew highlighted a remarkable new fungus from Brazil that parasitizes trapdoor spiders, earning it a

Tonic water has its roots in the tropics, where British colonials mixed bitter quinine from cinchona bark into water as