Common names for plants often lead us astray. Go shopping in seed catalogs for bachelor’s buttons and you are liable to end up with a cool-season, northern European weed also known as corn flower ...

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Best wishes to Centaurea and basil on this happy occasion. Now what the heck is that about? Well, each year the National Garden Bureau designates one annual and one edible as plant of the year and ...

The Sichuan button is a small, yellow flower bud that, when eaten, creates a strong tingling sensation in the mouth — not unlike biting down on an iPhone — and a sudden increase in salivation. The ...