Carnivorous plants look like botanical oddities, but their behavior is not a gimmick. It is a precise evolutionary solution to surviving where soil offers almost nothing.

All of the different plants on Earth—from mango trees to marigolds—have come about thanks to the simple rules of genetic inheritance, which determine how traits are passed on from one generation to ...

Plants have got you surrounded. They’re in your toothpaste, your bedsheets, and your regular Taco Bell order. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll find out what botanists study and how ...

Despite the desert environment of the Coachella Valley, most of the landscaping here is predominantly made up of non-native and even tropical plants. Although aesthetically pleasing, these plants, ...

THESE delicately detailed representations of medicinal plants are the work of Leonhart Fuchs, a 16th-century German physician and botanist commonly considered one of the founding figures of modern ...

THE botanical side of palæontology has been passed over in general treatises and text-books in a manner that shows the authors had little, if any, personal knowledge of fossil plants. This has been ...

A Lanonia palm with mottled leaves is among the plant specimens in Lyon Arboretum’s collection. Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser ...