This robust, easy-to-grow tropical indoor plant can grow up to nine feet. Needs: Bright light and 11 inches of space on either side of the plant so the glossy leaves have room to grow outward.

Some leaves in tropical forests from South America to South East Asia are getting so hot they may no longer be able to photosynthesize, with big potential consequences for the world’s forests ...

Temperatures high enough to cause “irreversible damage” to a plant’s ability to photosynthesise are already impacting a small portion of tropical forest leaves, new research finds. The study, ...

By performing laboratory leaf experiments at 3.6, 5.4 and 7.2 F (2, 3 and 4 C) of warming, the researchers found that temperatures around some of the leaves peaked much higher than the air ...

But large leaves can cope in hot, wet, tropical climates because they counteract the daytime heat-trapping effect using transpiration – something desert plants cannot do because they cannot ...