This week’s Mystery Plant is sometimes called “Beefsteak plant”, so the common name is not a mystery. But what a really interesting plant it is, in part because of its common name. I’m not really why, ...

What’s in a name? If it’s two varieties of Perilla, potentially a lot of confusion. Even growers and trusted internet resources (I’m looking at you, Wikipedia) get them wrong, muddling images of shiso ...

Perilla is often used in cuisines in several Asian countries. It is also a salad green. Photo: ibuki Tsubo/Unsplash Despite the delightful name of this plant, it must be uprooted in an attempt to save ...

The average American’s simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak. John Nelson is the retired curator of the Herbarium at the University of South Carolina, in the ...

I am sad to say that one of my best friends and botany buddies died last year. Steve W. Leonard was a Tarheel from Davidso cOunty NC, who graduated from UNC-Chapel with his bachelor’s and later master ...