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, March 27, 2014

New logo for botanical detectives...

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Botanical Accuracy has gotten a new custom-made logo designed by Clayton Leadbetter.  Love it! Thanks, Clayton!

Flowering ferns and other mythical greens

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The Philadelphia Flower Show is a paradise for winter-weary gardeners.  It can also be great fodder for botanical accuracy blog posts, but I...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Pollen allergy? Not from thistles

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This ad is marketing the allergy medicine Singulair (Merck) and it is titled 'go nose to nose with allergies'.  And right ne...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Are there cattails among the nymphs in the waterlilies?

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Sometimes you run into botanical mistakes that just makes no sense.  Mistakes that are so strange, that you wonder not just want the author ...
Friday, January 31, 2014

Teasels tousled with thistles

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Thistles are such familiar plants to most of us, these spiky, thorny, sharp-leaved plants with fuzzy purple or pink, or less commonly yellow...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Wanted: italics and correct capitalization

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As a botanists and scientists I am sure most of us have pet peeves on how scientific information is handled in everyday life.  One of mine i...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Beware of the wronged coconuts

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Coconut palms are the quintessential symbol of tropical paradise. Spindly, tall trees with large feathery leaves wisp in tropical breezes o...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Celery - stems, stalks, or sticks?

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Celery is a vegetable and plant that is prominent in American cooking, and infuses both cooked and raw dishes with its very special flavor. ...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Magilla Gorilla and shady cultivars

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[This is a guest post provided by Dr. Arthur O. Tucker, Delaware State University] I know that if you’ve gone to the garden centers in the...
Friday, January 10, 2014

Frosty fern? It is a variegated spike moss

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Before Christmas a fern-looking plant often shows up in the supermarkets and is marketed as 'frosty fern',  a name it gets from its ...
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