The aim was to clarify the environmental conditions under which sunlit water drops can cause leaf burn. These experiments found that water droplets on a smooth surface, such as maple or ginkgo ...

"In sunshine water drops residing on smooth hairless plant leaves are unlikely to damage the leaf tissue," Horvath and colleagues conclude. "However water drops held by plant hairs can indeed ...

Plants draw water from their roots and circulate it up ... and that’s where the trouble begins: Their seeds, which drop onto the soil, can remain viable for as long as 40 years.

An evergreen desert shrub common in the Middle East excretes salt crystals onto its leaves that may help the plant absorb moisture from the air. “Not only does the plant use some water ...