ok8679 / plant-humanities

The Plant Humanities Lab is an innovative digital space that supports the interdisciplinary study of plants from the various perspectives of the arts, sciences, and humanities, to explore their extraordinary significance to human culture.

Featured Plant Narratives {.cards}

Cacao: Indigenous Network to Global Commodity

• Rebecca Friedel

Sunflower: Knowledge, Myth, and Meaning

• Kristan M. Hanson

Heliconia: Evolution at Work

• W. John Kress and Yota Batsaki

Peony: Pretty and Powerful

• Ashley Buchanan

Cinnamomum verum: Discovering “True” Cinnamon

• Wouter Klein

Bananas: Chaos out of Order

• Ashley Buchanan

All Plant Narratives {.cards}

Agave: A Plant with an Intoxicating History

• Ashley Buchanan

Arbor Vitae: In Search of the Tree of Life

• Ashley Buchanan

Bananas: Chaos out of Order

• Ashley Buchanan

Boxwood: A Plant That Took Over the Garden World

• Anatole Tchikine

Cacao: Indigenous Network to Global Commodity

• Rebecca Friedel

Carolina Rice: An Agricultural Legacy of Enslaved Peoples

• Julia Fine

Cassava: From Toxic Tuber to Food Staple

• Christina Emery, Rachel Hirsch, and Melinda Susanto

Cinnamomum verum: Discovering “True” Cinnamon

• Wouter Klein

Dittany: Women’s Herbs and Reproductive Control

• Ashley Buchanan

Dracaena draco: The Mystery of Dragon’s Blood

• Thomas C. Anderson, Cati Kalinoski, and Lucas Mertehikian

Heliconia: Evolution at Work

• W. John Kress and Yota Batsaki

Mint: The Ubiquity of a Commercial Crop

• Victoria Pickering

Pelargonium: By Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet?

• Daisy Reid, Verónica Matallana Chaves, Yao Jiang

Peony: Pretty and Powerful

• Ashley Buchanan

Sunflower: Knowledge, Myth, and Meaning

• Kristan M. Hanson

Turmeric: Herb of the Sun

• Julia Fine

Watermelon: Stereotypes of Race and Class

• Anna Lawrence, Camilo Uribe Botta, and May Wang