plants

English taxonomist John Ray’s History of Plants classified biological species in a new systematic way.

Due to the breadth of its content and illustrations, this book becomes a bestseller of the seventeenth century.

First contact of Europeans with potatos in the Magdalena Valley in the Colombian Andes

Early modern European voyages to the New World led to the globally transformative exchange of people, plants, ideas, and diseases.

The first nicotiana tabacum (tobacco) plants are cultivated in Jamestown, Virginia.

This South American cactus moth is used to combat the spread of the prickly pear.

The career of the word “ecology” takes off. The term will increasingly be used to describe all aspects of interaction between living creatures and their environment.

Today’s Royal National Park, which lies south of Sydney, is Australia’s first explicitly designated national park.

European settlers introduce European species of flora and fauna into Australia and New Zealand.