EditorialLynn Jacobs smells a native black cohosh flower on her Long Island property in Wading River, N.Y., Oct. 9, 2021. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
EditorialBugbane or cohosh, Actaea cimicifuga, Cimicifuga foetida, Cimicaire fetide. Handcoloured steel engraving by Alphonse-Leon Noel after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Re...
EditorialBugbane or cohosh, Actaea cimicifuga, Cimicifuga foetida, Cimicaire fetide. Handcoloured steel engraving by Alphonse-Leon Noel after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Re...
EditorialBlack cohosh, Actaea racemosa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J.S. Leitner from a drawing by B. Thanner from Johannes Zorn's "Icones plantarum medicinalium," Germany, 1796. Zorn (1739-99) was a German pharmacist and botanist who travelled all ov...