There’s always a table reserved for you at the Botany Bistro! Here you can munch on bite-sized botany as you savor the science of plants. In 2025, Season 2 of this free, virtual botanical banquet is focused on 24 different plant families, exploring their unique characteristics and ways they have adapted through time. New videos are uploaded on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at noon. Want a link to each video once it’s up? Sign up here!

This session is all about the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family. It consists of flowering plants that includes several agricultural crops, medicinal plants, spices, weeds and ornamentals. Members of this family include tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant and peppers.

Seasonally, Botany Bistro will also meet virtually “live” to celebrate the equinoxes/solstices, chat about our adventures, hear about Mary’s behind the scenes bloopers and address questions sent in via the form linked in each video’s description on our YouTube channel.

To see the full schedule, meet the instructor, access the Botany Bistro archive and sign up for email notifications, click on Learn More below.