Illustrations by Liz Zonarich/Harvard Staff Science & Tech Can you tell an amorphophallus from an aspergillus? Sy Boles Harvard Staff Writer September 15, 2026 1 min read Word nerds, classicists, and botanists, it’s your time to shine in etymology quiz inspired by Div School book Can plants see? Can they pray? If trees could make music, what would it sound like? Those questions and others are explored in “Thinking with Plants and Fungi,” a collection of essays from botanists, anthropologists, artists, and theologians inspired by a conference of the same name, hosted at the Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions. At the core of the book is an inquiry into how we sho...