The history of the gardenia in this country is intertwined with the botanical investigations of Alexander Garden.

Additions to the Flora of Ceylon’ is a landmark in Sri Lanka’s botanical history which reveals nearly 200 plant species, ...

It was during this period that the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus began to give genus and species names, in Latin, to plants and animals, a system that would become known as binomial nomenclature.

In addition to his medical practice, Garden became an avid plantsman and sent local specimens he discovered back to Europe. It was during this period that the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus began ...

When the government of Sri Lanka published the  National Red List of threatened plants in 2020, my eyebrows shot up. We’ve all become accustomed, after all, to the grim news these reports periodically ...