A Digital Botanic Garden

This strange mutant of the greater plantain Plantago major has been documented for over 400 years. It's commonly known as the rose plan...

I like a nice cup of cacoa - and this is where it comes from. This is the flower of cacao, Theobroma cacao , source of chocolate. These flow...

In 1825 a French nurseryman called Monsieur Adam grafted a purple-flowered specimen of broom Chamaecytisus purpureus onto a yellow laburnum...

I can't remember how long I've had this Aeonium - it must be a decade at least - and throughout that time it has produced nothing b...

I've had this specimen of fork-leaved sundew Drosera binata for about a decade and it now fills a 10 inch pot and carries about 200 sti...

I've waited a long time for this. I bought this Strelitzia reginae as a small plant several years ago and made the fundamental mistak...

A few years ago I was given some seed of Puya chilensis that germinated quickly and produced attractive small pot plan...