Saturday, March 23, 2013

Neutrogena: INCI and scientific species names

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Screenshot of Neutrogena Naturals Lip Balm, from Neutrogena's website (c) Neutrogena , fair use. Neutrogena properly lists the sci...
Friday, March 22, 2013

eHow: yellow thistle is a burdock, and more problems

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eHow.com has an article about ' Thistle Plants with Yellow Flowers & Purple Leaves ', where they say: "The thistle is a c...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Aveda: The lipstick plant

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The plant Bixa orellana (family Bixaceae) is commonly called 'lipstick plant' and it is the plant we get the red coloring annato an...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Weleda: Wrong centaury

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Weleda is a company providing skincare, health, and beauty products based on natural ingredients and biodynamic principles.  They list their...
Monday, March 18, 2013

Apple's Siri ad: wrong poison oak

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Ad for Siri and iPhone 4 in The Economist.  Photo by Vilseskogen on Flickr, Creative Commons license. In July 2012 Apple ran a print-a...
Saturday, March 16, 2013

Burt's Bees: Canola oil plant

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The beauty and skin product company Burt's Bees gets a lot of their botany fully correct in their online ingredient list, but manage to ...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Royal Copenhagen: Flora Danica (example 2)

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In this earlier post I explained the background of the Flora Danica series produced by Royal Copenhagen.  Here is another new design from 2...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Canada's government: Wrong maple on the money

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Canada's new $20 bill, 2012. Copyright: CBC. As reported by CBC Canada a little while ago, botanists in Canada have shown that the ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Royal Copenhagen: Flora Danica (example 1)

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One of the most expensive china sets in the world, Flora Danica , is produced by the renowned company Royal Copenhagen , and the designs ...
Monday, March 11, 2013

LUSH: Kaffir Limes and Lime trees (Example 1-4)

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LUSH with its fragrant, colorful, and funky beauty products uses a lot of natural, plant-based ingredients.  They provide excellent informat...