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.

Monday, November 24, 2014

Linguistic tangles in Brazilian rosewood - is it rosaedora, rosaeodora, or rosidora?

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Recently I was asked to check the name for Brazilian rosewood, which is usually listed as having the scientific name Aniba rosaedora or Ani...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Fungi this and fungi that, fungi known and fungi what?

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All food products have to be marked with their ingredients, but it becomes a little complicated when what is in the packet of dried mushroom...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Mixed herbs - a trip out in the botanical unknown

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Baraka Mixed Herbs. (c) BotanicalAccuracy.com  A few days ago I found a very interesting bag of plant materials for sale in the local f...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Red berry, blue berry... cranberry, lingonberry?

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In Scandinavia many forest berries are wild-harvested and then used for home canning of jams and sauces, and also sold commercially to compa...
Saturday, October 18, 2014

Chamomile, what flower is on your tea box?

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What do you think - does this chamomile tea box from STASH show chamomile flowers or something else?   The medicinal plant chamomile has be...
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