About 80% of the green foliage sold in bouquets across the U.S. and Canada comes from northeast Volusia County. Companies growing ferns are watching the weather closely because freezing conditions can ...

Join Violet Moon ( @witchcraft_apothecary ) as she talks about working with grief and the importance of plant medicine and ritual in moving through and healing our grief on the individual and ...

Learn exactly what skeleton flower needs to produce its unique and otherworldly petals.

KUALA LUMPUR: YTL Power International Bhd is embarking on the construction of a US$2.7bil (RM11.6bil) 1,320MW coal-fired power plant in Cirebon, West Java – its second investment in Indonesia. The ...

A few years ago, it finally happened: I got a truly bad haircut. I naively thought it would never happen to me, but a few too many snips landed me with way-too-short curtain bangs for my wavy hair.

In plants, de novo synthesis of all three basic amino acids (Arg, His and Lys) occurs entirely in the plastid stroma. Therefore, export of these essential primary metabolites via membrane-intrinsic ...

Despite theoretical expectations of balanced 1:1 sex ratios between females and males, many dioecious plant species exhibit sex ratio distortions. A recent study in persimmon shows how this can be ...

There are enviable individuals who acquire skills and knowledge effortlessly, others are more orderly and achievement-focused than are their peers, and still others who exhibit unusual talents. While ...

As a beginner urban forager, I want to keep a list of native plants that are edible and/or medicinal that are found in Southern California. I was given a text file with a list of plant names, along ...

In ferns grown in Purdue, male gametophytes can convert to hermaphrodites when antheridiogen is absent This conversion requires localized auxin production, creating a peak of auxin signaling at the ...