Botanical Accuracy

Welcome to the "Better Botanical Business Bureau", where botanical mistakes in commercial and public venues and products are showcased and corrected. It is not unusual with products, ingredients, and images used in media, design, and commercial works to be presented with the wrong common names, wrong species names, and/or wrong ingredients. This blog provides scientific and educational information to correct such mistakes as part of a global effort to increase botanical knowledge.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Lessonia: 'Marine lichen' is not a lichen, it is a red algae

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Lessonia is a company that provides ingredients to cosmetics companies.  They specialize in exfoliators and botanical extracts , including ...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

Greening Singapore with temperate weeds?

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2013 logo for Singapore's National Park Service © Singapore National Parks , fair use. I recently recieved an e-mail from Singapore ...
Monday, May 13, 2013

The difference between stems, stalks, and petioles in rhubarb

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This is the wonderful rhubarb season!  And for those of us that like the tart flavor, the red shiny stalks (or sometimes green) makes us ima...
Sunday, May 12, 2013

The New York Times: Restaurant NOMA in Copenhagen

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In July 6, 2010, The New York Times published an article by Frank Bruni about the amazing and world-renowned restaurant NOMA in Copenhagen ...

"Rosa arctica" - the Kiehl's plant that doesn't exist

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Rosa Arctica cream. © Kiehl's , fair use Instead of using the wrong name for a plant, you can invent a new scientific plant name to ...
Sunday, May 5, 2013

LUSH: Which bay leaf plant?

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 On the cosmetics company LUSH's web page they list information about all their ingredients.  Here is their information for " Fresh...

Gordolobo is or isn't mullein?

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 On a recent trip to Minnesota I bought a packet of Mexican herbs by the company Mi CosteƱita sold as Gordolobo, a common medicinal plant us...
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...
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