These are shrubs that do several things pretty well. Magellan barberry (Berberis buxifolia) and Darwin's barberry (B. darwinii) are multi-use shrubs that are easily grown. Magellan barberry makes ...

The Environmental Protection Authority is inviting submissions on an application to import and release two weevils for the biological control of the weed Darwin's barberry. The application is ...

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) wants people’s views on an application to release two biological control agents to combat Darwin’s barberry, an invasive weed. Environment ...

Published in England barely a month before, Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” was sent by the author himself to Asa Gray, a Harvard botanist who would become one of Darwin’s ...

Ironically, the actual mechanism of heredity—genetics—was revealed in Darwin's lifetime, though he never knew it. Working with pea plants, the Austrian priest Gregor Mendel discovered the ...