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Astronauts living and working on the Moon will need something to eat. The Growing Beyond Earth program supports international space crop research.
Scientists still report species as being ‘discovered’, even if they’ve been used by local populations for years.
The colonial history of botanical gardens encouraged pride in indigenous flora and culture.
A wood and glass case invented in the early 19th-century transformed the movement of plants around the world. In Melbourne, several thousand people greeted a primrose on its arrival from England.
Traditional botanists are in decline, but this isn’t the end of plant science.
The current debate led by Paul Keating about the Master Plan for Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens reminds us how patchy and inconsistent our democracy is in regard to the way we make our cities. The Royal…





