What training do botanists have?
Botany has the answers to what is cork and where we get vanilla, why rushes grow by streams and what makes tomatoes red. It also explains why crops fail and why we do not run out of oxygen. Teams of botanists have solved about a zillion important problems in our everyday lives. The field of botany has enough projects for almost everyone to select either a career or a hobby. Biology, of course, is the immense science of living things and botany is the branch of biology that copes with the plant kingdom. Its experts specialize as cultivators and classifiers, growers and gardeners, doctors and detectives to more than three quarters of a million different plants. Naturally, all living and non living things are directly or indirectly linked together. So specialized branches of botany dip into geology and geography, chemistry and physics and many other science fields. The number of fascinating careers in botany is past counting. But all of them begin in school with basic courses in math and
