A Plant A Day

Most people judge herbal products by what is on the label, but almost nobody asks how those ingredients were actually […]

Among recent plant discoveries was a newly recognized plant lineage that lacks photosynthesis and depends entirely on fungi for nutrition.

This post series on botanical ingredient adulteration is inspired by the excellent work coming out of the Botanical Adulterants Prevention

Some striking statistics were shared by Mark Blumenthal of the American Botanical Council and Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program at this

One uncomfortable truth keeps surfacing: as an industry, we still invest far more in marketing than we do in science.

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