. Mill-frott ta' din l-ispeċi jsiru żewġ ħwawar importanti;  l-aril aħmar (mace) li qed jghatti wiċċ l-ghadma tal-frotta. Filwaqt li mill-ghadma tal-frotta jsir in-[[noċemuskata]].]]
'''Il-botanika''', imsejħa wkoll '''ix-xjenza tal-pjanti''', hija qasam fix-[[xjenza]] dwar l-istudju tal-ħajja  tal-pjanti u fergħa mill-[[bijoloġija]]<ref>{{Ċita web|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/botany|titlu=Definition of BOTANY|data=2023-07-29|sit=www.merriam-webster.com|lingwa=en|data-aċċess=2023-07-29}}</ref>. Filwaqt li l-'''Botanista''' jew '''fitologu''' huwa xjenzat li jispeċjalizza f'dan il-qasam<ref>{{Ċita web|url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/botanist|titlu=BOTANIST - English meaning Cambridge Dictionary|kunjom=Cambridge University Press & Assessment 2023|data=2023|sit=dictionary.cambridge.org|lingwa=English|data-aċċess=2023-07-29}}</ref>. Il-kelma "botanika" ġejja mill-kelma Griega tal-qedem βοτάνη li tfisser " mergħa "," ħaxix ", jew " għalf "<ref name=":0">{{Ċita web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=bota/nh|titlu=Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, βοτάνη|sit=www.perseus.tufts.edu|data-aċċess=2023-07-25}}</ref>; il- kelma βοτάνη  min-naħa tagħha hija mnissla minn βόσκειν, li tfisser "biex jitimgħu" jew " jirgħu ". <ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Ċita web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908201347/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=botany&searchmode=none|titlu=Botany|kunjom=Harper|isem=Douglas|data=2023|sit=www.etymonline.com|lingwa=en|data-aċċess=2023-07-29|arkivju-url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=botany&searchmode=none|arkivju-data=2017-09-08}}</ref><ref>{{Ċita web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d0XSwMJLDg4C&q=botane%20boskein%20botany&pg=PA134|titlu=A Dictionary of Entomology - Google Books|data=2023-02-10|sit=web.archive.org|data-aċċess=2023-07-25|arkivju-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210172545/https://books.google.com/books?id=d0XSwMJLDg4C&q=botane%20boskein%20botany&pg=PA134|arkivju-data=2023-02-10|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>Tradizzjonalment, il-botanika kienet tinkludi wkoll l-istudju tal-fungi u tal-[[alka]] li illum huma ikklassifikati u s f'renji separati u studjati separatament<ref>Scamardella, J. M. (1999). Not plants or animals: a brief history of the origin of Kingdoms Protozoa, Protista and Protoctista. ''International Microbiology'', ''2''(4), 207-216.DOI:10.2436/IM.V2I4.9219</ref>. Ilum il-ġurnata, il-botaniċi jistudjaw madwar 410,000 [[speċi]] ta ' pjanti terrestri li jinkludu pjanti vaskulari (391,000) u pjanti tal-fjuri (369,000)<ref>{{Ċita web|url=https://stateoftheworldsplants.com/report/sotwp_2016.pdf|titlu=The State of the World's Plants Report- 2016 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|kunjom=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|data=2016|sit=kew.iro.bl.uk/concern/reports/f931f1de-72c7-46b4-b57c-28eb417c53ec?locale=en|lingwa=en|data-aċċess=2023-07-09|arkivju-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160928190506/https://stateoftheworldsplants.com/report/sotwp_2016.pdf|arkivju-data=2016-09-28}}</ref> filwaqt li madwar 20,000 minnhom huma brijofiti<ref>{{Ċita web|url=http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/B/|titlu=Bryophytes (Mosses and liverworts) — The Plant List|sit=www.theplantlist.org|data-aċċess=2023-07-25}}</ref>.