Close to 8,000 varieties of apples grow in orchards around the globe.

This member of the pea family (the Fabaceae, also Leguminosae) sports tall spikes of flowers in a stunning depth of the colors mauve, blue, pink, even white. . . .

Why is so much of the good stuff always sold in grams? . . .

When the term “vulgaris” forms the second half of the given Latin name of a plant, as it very often does, we understandably might think it gives a negative connotation. . . .

We say Fahrenheit, miles and cilantro. Nearly everyone else on the globe says Celsius, kilometers and coriander. . . .