A Plant A Day

Often called “Peruvian Ginseng”, Maca (Lepidium meyenii, syn. L. peruvianum) is a herbaceous biennial in the Brassicaceae family (the same […]

We’re staying ‘hot and heavy with hormones’ this month, and today it’s the men’s turn. ➡️ Testosterone is having a

In 2022, botanists officially described Victoria boliviana, a spectacular new species from the wetlands of Bolivia that now holds the

Tribulus (aka Gokshura, Puncturevine; Tribulus terrestris) is used for sexual support in Chinese Traditional <edicine, Ayurveda, and herbalism across south‑eastern

An herbaceous perennial native to North America, Black Cohosh (Actaea racemosa, syn. Cimicifuga racemosa) has a rhizomous root system that

Today I am kicking off a month that will be *Hot and Heavy with Hormones. ➡️ A month of posts

Fish Mint (aka. The Chameleon Plant, Rainbow Plant; Houttuynia cordata) native to Southeast Asia is used as a leaf vegetable

Native to E. Asia, India, Japan, China, Korea and Vietnam, Mondograss (Ophiopogon japonicus) is a turf-forming perennial with linear grass-like

In a landmark study, researchers reconstructed what happened to South America’s flora after the fateful asteroid impact 66 million years

Prebiotics used to be easy to define: they were the fibers we couldn’t digest, but our microbes could. Today that