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Before John James Audubon ever sketched a feather, and before Carl Linnaeus created a tidy classification system, British naturalist Mark Catesby spent more than 10 years, over two separate journeys, traveling through more regions of North America than most single individuals would have ever seen. With meticulous delicacy, he documented its brilliantly colored birds, beasts, ...

Nothing creates a soothing atmosphere or adds life and movement to a home landscape quite like a water garden. In this blog, the home gardening experts share inspiration, ideas, and guidance for novice waterscapers.

Waterscaping encompasses the design, installation, and maintenance of ponds and...

Each summer when the heat and humidity make St. Louis feel like the tropics, giant Amazon Victoria water lilies at the Missouri Botanical Garden seem right at home.

These large lilies, whose pads can grow up to ten feet across in their natural habitat, have been a...

As the Amazon rainforest experiences higher temperatures and longer, more intense dry seasons, individual trees in the Peruvian Amazon are acclimating, but experiencing more stress, according to a new study by Missouri Botanical Garden scientists and collaborators.

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A team of researchers from the Missouri Botanical Garden and the University of Wisconsin–Madison identified a new species of baobab in Madagascar. Scientists preliminarily classified the new species, Adansonia bozy, as critically endangered due to its population size and threats like deforestation.

“It’s exciting that use of genetic data coupled with tradi...