The Year of the Dragon is almost upon us, and there’s no shortage of ways to celebrate, from a festival at the Peabody Essex Museum to a cultural village in Chinatown.
When plant systematist Elliot Gardner first began collecting samples of a fruit-bearing tree in Malaysian Borneo, he thought he was looking at just one species. Western taxonomists had long considered both the cultivated and wild types of Artocarpus odoratissimus, a close relative of breadfruit and jackfruit, as a single species. But time and again, Indigenous […]