The BriefFour new species of Epiphytes or airplants have been discovered in the jungles of South America.This is a discovery ...

There are five plants you can grow in your garden to create a tropical heaven ... Musa basjoo will grow quickly to produce large, exotic leaves and will thrive with regular watering and feeding ...

A new plant-leaf-poking sensor could soon help them do so, by sending an alert as soon as the plant gets stressed. Plants of all types continuously produce hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as part of ...

Tropical plants in the genus Heliconia attract hummingbirds, bats and other creatures in the wild — and intrigue plant collectors, who prize them for their intense colors, dramatic beak-like ...

Dead leaves on woody tropical plants, such as hibiscus, tibouchina, angel trumpet, croton, ixora, schefflera, copper plant and rubber tree, can be picked off to make things look neater.

An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest ... Rakus the orangutan pluck and chew up leaves of a medicinal plant used by people throughout Southeast ...

"This is the Allspice leaf," she said, handing me a leaf to ... the Jim Strickland Youth Education and Tropical Plant House. The 3,400-square-foot exhibit opens next month. The Memphis Botanic ...

The discovery “was completely serendipitous,” says James Dalling, a tropical forest ecologist ... fronds out of the way and found that the leaves were rooted in the ground.

In a study published recently in the journal Nature, scientists concluded that tropical forests could be drawing closer to the temperature threshold where leaves ... Many plants in some regions ...

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, ...

Like people, leaves ... plants could survive up to 50° Celsius, only to perish beyond that threshold. More than 150 years later, researchers are making similar findings. In 2021, a study of 147 ...

A new study conducted by the Graduate School of Human Life and Ecology at Osaka Metropolitan University demonstrated the potential antiobesity effects of Mallotus furetianus (MFE),a tropical plant ...