A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

Professor John Wiens from the University of Arizona has shed new light on the pace of new species discoveries — and how it ...

Have you noticed some curly, spiky, gray-green, alien-like plants resting in a shell, hanging from a ceiling, perched on ...

Some plants produce heat, which has long puzzled botanists. But a new study suggests that infrared radiation is an ancient ...

Experts want to combat new species of plants that are moving around within the United States, and coming from around the world, before they get a foothold. By Margaret Roach When it comes to invasive ...

If you have ever wondered why your plants look droopy even though you water them all the time, you are not alone.

Call them nature’s own luxury high-rise condo rentals. Squamellaria plants, from the same family as coffee and quinine, are fat aerial tubers perched high in tropical trees. In Fiji, one of the ...

While some plants might be important cultural, family and emotional touchstones for us, they can be dangerous when ingested.