While they occupy a large section of most produce departments in every large grocery store in America, most of us are fairly unaware of the great benefits that mushrooms have to offer. We may have eaten mushrooms on our pizza or enjoyed them in our stir fry, but view them solely as a culinary delight […]
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Binomial Nomenclature: What is it and why is it important?
From before the time of Christ when Latin was the literary language in Europe, botanists have attempted to both classify and name plants in a way that both organizes the plants and describes the nature of the plant. It wasn’t until the mid-1700’s that a Swedish botanist by the name of Carl Linnaeus simplified and […]
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