Anyone seeing a white jacaranda (Jacaranda puberula), also known as caroba, blooming in the sandbank forest might assume that the leafy tree could not survive in such sandy soil. They would be right.

Agriculture, from the outset, has been made possible by humans tweaking the genes of plants to make them grow faster, produce ...

Even though they're tropical plants, poinsettias don't like it hot. "We recommend keeping them in indoor temperatures between ...

Henon bamboo, a species that blooms every 120 years, faces an uncertain future after a massive flowering and the death of its ...

A plant that looks like a fungus, lives like a parasite, and clones itself in the dark—Balanophora may be one of evolution’s ...

Some plants produce heat, which has long puzzled botanists. But a new study suggests that infrared radiation is an ancient ...

Learn how to plant, care for, and force the bulbs of your paperwhites. They're great gifts for the holidays or all year long.

Cycads use infrared heat to guide beetle pollinators, revealing an ancient plant communication system that predates flowers.

While many modern plants use colorful flowers to attract pollinators, ancient palm-like plants called cycads lure them by ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Moon gardens, or arrangements of white-flowering and silver-leaved plants that seem to gleam under the ...