Botany

Though often overlooked because of their gender, women botanists have made huge contributions to our knowledge of the natural world over the last 300 years. Audio

A botanist on the West Coast wants locals to start planting growing edible perennials that are growing in his nursery and food forest. Audio

Claire Concannon meets with some of the people working to protect New Zealand's naturally rare ecosytems and the endangered plants found within them. Audio

In this Voices podcast, botanist and associate curator at the Auckland Museum, Yumiko Baba, shares her long-standing love for a particular native tree. Produced and presented by Kadambari Raghukumar.

When Christchurch's Hagley Park was created in the late 19th century native plants such as ferns, cabbage trees and flax were replaced by English plants like beech, elm and oak. As part of the Scape… Audio, Gallery

Claire Concannon hits the Central Otago hills with Botany PhD student Ben Teele to imagine the landscape as it use to be, and to follow the clues to find leftover pockets of tōtara trees. Audio

Claire Concannon hears how the the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network's favourite plant competition is shaping up, while Katy Gosset learns about research to improve the quality and growth… Audio

An endangered plant and a rare butterfly are both being carefully nurtured at a Christchurch restoration project. For this week's Our Changing World, Katy Gosset visits the Charlesworth Reserve and… Audio

Rogue MP Jami-Lee Ross has done a u-turn on his decision earlier in the week to resign instead vowing to stay on in Parliament as an independent in his Botany electorate. Lisa Owen joins us in the… Video, Audio

There will be a by-election in the safe National seat of Botany, following Jami-Lee Ross' dramatic resignation on Tuesday. Mr Ross will stand as an independent and believes his track record will gain… Audio

Spider orchids that smell like mushrooms are fooling fungus gnats into pollinating them, and Carlos Lehnebach wants to find out more about this botanical deception. Video, Audio

Are many of us not seeing the wood… or the trees? ‘Plant blindness’ is a phrase used to describes the general failure of modern people to notice the plants around them. Audio

Poet Janis Freegard reads 'Dimorphism', from her poetry book The Glass Rooster, comparing divaricating plants to cushion plants. Audio

Auckland Botanical Gardens curator Bec Stanley shares the secret world of plant communication - above and below ground. Audio

Linda Tyler is the Director of the Centre for Art Studies at The University of Auckland. Her chosen masterpiece is this work, by Scottish botanist and draughtsman John Buchanan from 1863. Audio

Auckland Botanical Gardens curator Bec Stanley on the chlorophyll-filled bio-mass that photosynthesises around us. Audio