From sticky “flypaper” to lightning-fast suction, carnivorous plants have evolved various ingenious traps for finding the ...

We haven’t been giving the Plant Kingdom enough credit. Plants can move, attack, communicate, and adapt — even though they don’t have what's normally defined as a brain. So are plants intelligent?

Two botanical luminaries – Carl Linnaeus and David Fairchild – never met, but both were stunned by the beauty of palms, considering them the best the plant kingdom had to offer. Linnaeus (1707-1778) ...

Talk about shock and awe: Stories abound that describe northern botanists’ first encounters with plant life in tropical climes. The sheer mass and diversity of Equatorial jungles has been ...

The capacity of bacteria to spread disease across the Plant Kingdom may be much more widespread than previously suspected, according to new analysis. The capacity of bacteria to spread disease across ...

From morning glories spiraling up fence posts to grape vines corkscrewing through arbors, twisted growth is a problem-solving tool found throughout the plant kingdom. Roots "do the twist" all the time ...

Passiflora incarnata, Nymphaea odorata, Chamaecrista fasciculata, Asclepius incarnata! Sounds like spells from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, doesn’t it? While these words could come ...

The tiny bladderwort plant may not be much to look at – and yeah, its name is beyond silly – but it’s the deadliest hunter in the plant kingdom. It can trap prey in less than a millisecond, over a ...

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of algae called Protocodium sinense which predates the origin of land plants and modern animals and provides new insight into the early ...