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.

Friday, September 25, 2015

NYT taxonomic inaccuracies, again

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I just sent this letter to the Corrections office at NYT, a newspaper that " welcomes comments and suggestions, or complaints about err...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

Dear New York Times, when will you start to care about taxonomic accuracy?

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As a subscriber and frequent reader of The New York Times, it surprises and depresses me greatly that not more care is taken in checking fac...
Friday, July 10, 2015

No, you are not allergic to pretty flowers...

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During this year's pollen season, the usual misinformation about pollen allergies crop up and grow fast in the media, online as well as ...
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...
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