The vanilla species grown for its flavoring is finicky. Genes from its wild relatives could help make it hardier — but not if those cousins go extinct.

The study of plant life by Stopes, Marie Carmichael, 1880-1958 Publication date 1910 Topics Botany Publisher London : Blackie and Son Collection cdl; americana Contributor University of California ...

Scientists at the University of Helsinki discovered how plants heal their protective outer layer, the periderm. The diffusion ...

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens.

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants ...

1 College of Life Sciences, Xinjiang Normal University, Ürümqi, China 2 Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes of Ministry of Education, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Institute of ...

Much of the distant history of fungi remains a mystery, however. While they branched off from animals more than 1 billion years ago, making them more closely related to us than plants are, there ...

When you imagine intelligent life you probably think of humans, apes, even dogs. However, a new study from Cornell chemical ecologists outlines how we might have to change the way we think about ...

Central Citrus Rotary Club recently planted a Peace Pole at Daystar Life Center in Crystal River and had a dedication ceremony on Wednesday, June 11. Steve Howard, Citrus County Administrator, was in ...