Baobabs are among the most recognizable plants on Earth, yet their biology challenges many assumptions about what a tree is.

The sundew is a carnivorous plant covered in sticky tentacles that actively trap and digest insects. While its basic feeding ...

A Michigan dairy farm took a gamble on a new kind of soybean—and it paid off fast. After feeding high-oleic soybeans to their ...

A plant thought extinct for 58 years has been found again in Australia after a chance upload to a citizen science mobile app.

Science is the force that makes Longwood's gardens flourish. A new scientific plan will launch along with events for the ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

The team concluded that SafeWax is “an innovative technology with the potential to become a breakthrough in the field of ...

Traces of plant poison on ancient African arrowheads provide the oldest direct evidence of poisoned weapons. Scientists have ...

The aggressive Mauritius thorn is forming dense thickets along watercourses, reducing stream flow and accelerating the ...

This web of food-centered relationships will take center stage at the California Native Plant Foods Celebration and Symposium, a first-of-its-kind event at the University of California, Davis. It will ...

UF scientists are developing high‑tech, gene‑edited citrus varieties to help Florida growers fight citrus greening and speed ...

FILE: Dave Rempel, 28, a biologist with the Institute for Wildlife Studies, carries a juvenile bald eagle in a kennel to a ...