The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction ...

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Some types, like Erica carnea, are especially good at surviving cold Canadian winters. They grow low to the ground and don’t need much protection. Planting a group together creates a colorful carpet ...

Balanophora lost photosynthesis long ago but kept tiny plastids that run key chemistry and shows how forest parasites adapt ...

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

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

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At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...