Scientists at the Salk Institute are buoyed after a first-of-its-kind study provided further clues on how plants in later stages of life protect themselves from environmental threats. Their findings ...

Flowers have long inspired artists, but could they be artists themselves? A new Saatchi Gallery exhibition explores their ...

Why Are Anthurium Plants Popular? The exotic-looking heart-shaped “blooms” that make anthurium irresistible as houseplants are, in fact, spathes, or modified leaves surrounding the spadix, a stem ...

A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes, among other ...

University of Queensland researchers have for the first time introduced genetic material into plants via their roots, opening ...

Researchers and citizen scientists took samples of environmental DNA from saliva on backyard hummingbird feeders and agave ...

New “slow flower” farms grow beautiful blooms—without health-harming chemicals used by overseas operations that dominate the ...

Scientists studied plant DNA to understand past extinctions. They found that warming climates increase competition, ...

Researchers at the Bayreuth Center for Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER) at the University of Bayreuth have found ...

Shower plants are a thing. You’ve seen online lists of tropical plants to keep in the shower and Instagram feeds of walk-in showers that are so full of tropical plants they look like large ...

If plant breeders had to wait for a plant to clone itself the natural way, the supply of rare houseplants would be extremely limited. This would cause the consumer to have to pay an exorbitant ...