Collection Highlights
March 10, 2025
An ethnobotanical gem growing in the Virginia Haldan Tropical House, provides the dye used in many products
March 3, 2025
Southern Africa Collection Highlight
Fleshy leaves, seeds and unique storage structures. Plant survival strategies in harsh conditions
January 3, 2025
A coast-to-coast collaborative effort that solved a mystery in the Garden's collections.
August 2, 2024
Virginia Haldan Tropical House reopens!
The Virginia Haldan Tropical House reopens to the public on Sept. 7, 2024
January 1, 2024
The UC Botanical Garden has a small but remarkable collection of Banksia species flowering now in the Garden’s Australasian Area.
November 1, 2023
Pollinator training strategies
Colorful ways that plants entice pollinators to stick around
April 28, 2023
How do plants thrive in the dense understory beneath redwood trees?