Sabrina Hahn explains the secret to avocado success — and the reason your tree might be failing.

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Nature is brimming with color in almost every season. While the majority of colors are matte, some are shiny. Evolutionary ...

Corpse plants definitely earn their nickname. Their pungent odors attract not only the carrion insects – beetles and flies normally drawn to decomposing meat – that pollinate the plants, but also ...

A team of Colombian botanists has issued an urgent wake-up call after discovering a remarkable new orchid species, only to ...

The Conversation By Sarah Venter BAOBABS are sometimes called “upside-down trees”, because their branches look like roots reaching skywards. Of the eight species of baobab in the world, six are ...

Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Misasagi, Yamashina-ku, Kyoto 607-8412, Japan, and Pharmaceutical Research and Technology Institute, Kinki University, 3-4-1 Kowakae, Higashi-osaka, Osaka 577-8502, ...

Hybridization experiments with peas, pioneered by Gregor Mendel in the 19th century, laid the foundation for modern genetics.

If you live in an area where it rains often and the soil is usually damp as a result, you'll want to focus on fruit trees ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — While Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is known for its tradition of celebrating the lives of loved ones who have passed away, the flowers used during the holiday tell their own ...