Featured Plant Narratives {.cards}

Cacao: Indigenous Network to Global Commodity

• Rebecca Friedel

Sunflower: Knowledge, Myth, and Meaning

• Kristan M. Hanson

Heliconia: Evolution at Work

• W. John Kress and Yota Batsaki

Peony: Pretty and Powerful

• Ashley Buchanan

Cinnamomum verum: Discovering “True” Cinnamon

• Wouter Klein

Bananas: Chaos out of Order

• Ashley Buchanan

All Plant Narratives {.cards}

Agave: A Plant with an Intoxicating History

• Ashley Buchanan

Arbor Vitae: In Search of the Tree of Life

• Ashley Buchanan

Bananas: Chaos out of Order

• Ashley Buchanan

Boxwood: A Plant That Took Over the Garden World

• Anatole Tchikine

Cacao: Indigenous Network to Global Commodity

• Rebecca Friedel

Carolina Rice: An Agricultural Legacy of Enslaved Peoples

• Julia Fine

Cassava: From Toxic Tuber to Food Staple

• Christina Emery, Rachel Hirsch, and Melinda Susanto

Cinnamomum verum: Discovering “True” Cinnamon

• Wouter Klein

Dittany: Women’s Herbs and Reproductive Control

• Ashley Buchanan

Dracaena draco: The Mystery of Dragon's Blood

• Thomas C. Anderson, Cati Kalinoski, and Lucas Mertehikian

Heliconia: Evolution at Work

• W. John Kress and Yota Batsaki

Mint: The Ubiquity of a Commercial Crop

• Victoria Pickering

Pelargonium: By Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet?

• Daisy Reid, Verónica Matallana Chaves, Yao Jiang

Peony: Pretty and Powerful

• Ashley Buchanan

Sunflower: Knowledge, Myth, and Meaning

• Kristan M. Hanson

Turmeric: Herb of the Sun

• Julia Fine

Watermelon: Stereotypes of Race and Class

• Anna Lawrence, Camilo Uribe Botta, and May Wang