I’m probably not alone in associating ethnobotany with tales of derring-do, usually involving arduous treks through unbearably hot, mosquito-infested, disease-ridden, swamps or jungles in far-flung corners of the tropics in search of ‘goodness-knows-what-but-we’ll-recognise-it-when-we-find-it’. Well, ethnobotany – which attempts to ‘document, describe and explain complex relationships between cultures and (uses of) plants, focusing primarily on how [...]