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, November 29, 2016

Anatomy of artichoke heads

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This educational and interactive image from the artichoke company Ocean Mist Farms in California on the Anatomy of an Artichoke made me scr...
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Don't sneeze your weedy seeds

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The confusion in what causes hay fever allergies has been a hot topic on this blog.  Despite modern medicine and pharmacology being rooted ...
Sunday, August 28, 2016

Bad taxonomy can kill world records

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Or, When the world's tallest dandelion isn't a dandelion.  The motto of The Guinness World Records is OFFICIALLY AMAZING .   ...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Lichen or Moss - that is the hard question... also for science editors

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It appears that New Scientist needs to rename their recent story " Without oxygen from ancient moss you wouldn’t be alive today " ...
Saturday, January 9, 2016

Fine cooking out in the cabbage patch

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In the most recent issue of the fine cooking magazine Fine Cooking, the writers have gone out on a somewhat thin taxonomic limb. The Bras...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

Trader Joe's Real Mistletoe: a study in realness

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This holiday Trader Joe's have been selling 'Real Mistletoe' in cute little old fashion-inspired boxes.  On the back of each box...
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...
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