Seven Delta State University students and recent graduates contributed to research presented at the Botanical Society of ...

This video explores the tobacco plant Nicotiana rustica, also known as Aztec tobacco or strong tobacco. It belongs to the ...

In 1875, Darwin published a treatise on carnivorous plants that featured several species he thought could be flesh-eating ...

100 million years ago, long before human intervention, ancestors of grasses, including wheat, rice and maize, developed ...

A small, yellow-flowered plant that grows in the mountainous forests of China may not look intimidating. This plant species ...

In an extraordinary turn of events, the elusive Australian shrub Ptilotus senarius has emerged from the shadows of extinction ...

A new study found Saxifraga candelabrum to be a carnivorous plant, proving true Charles Darwin’s hypothesis that some plants of its genus lure, trap and eat insects.

Scientists have confirmed the discovery of the first carnivorous plant in the Saxifragales order — a group of non-woody flowering plants widely spread across temperate and cold mountain regions. The ...

One hundred million years ago, long before human intervention, ancestors of grasses, like wheat, rice and maize generated "bypasses" of chemical ...

In some parts of the world, species have evolved to adapt to extreme heat and drought. However in Britain, which has a ...

Scientists have proved that a species of plant covered with sticky hairs is carnivorous, confirming Darwin’s 150-year-old hunch.

AI optimists will be encouraged by a recent report on the state of the world's plants and fungi by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.