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.

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

New York State goes after mislabeled herbal supplements

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Big news in the herbal supplement world today: Four large US companies are told to stop selling mislabeled herbal supplements after DNA barc...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

Kissing under the mistletoe, or is it holly?

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Kissed someone recently under a mistletoe?  Did you check, maybe it was holly? The tradition of hanging a little bouquet of mistletoe in t...
Friday, December 5, 2014

White lichens, green mosses, and Swedish Christmas...

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It is Swedish culture time! During the four weeks before Christmas, many Swedes light four advent candles, one at a time for four Sundays...

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This blog just passed 100,000 page views yesterday. Thanks everybody for visiting!
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Why does the medicinal plant Astragalus membranaceus need to change its name? (updated)

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(Please see nomenclature update at the end of this post) One of the commonly used herbal medicines in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) a...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Are you having dinosaur for Thanksgiving? I hope so.

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This is a little detour out of the botanical world into the zoological realm. In three days Thanksgiving feasts are served all over USA, a...
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