Learn how to use rice water to fertilize plants, including three preparation methods and how often to apply it safely.

He may have started in music by buying the wrong instrument, and thrown his Grammy certificate in the garbage without ...

Most of us know a snake plant (Sansevieria or Dracaena trifasciata) for its ability to thrive indoors, near-immortal ...

Carnivorous plants look like botanical oddities, but their behavior is not a gimmick. It is a precise evolutionary solution ...

How do seedless grapes grow if they have no seeds? Seedless grapes don’t reproduce naturally by seed. They actually do contain seeds at some point, but they never form hard, outer ...

Black-bulb yam’s mimicry tricks birds into spreading its berrylike clones. The plant's novel strategy helps it spread without ...

Tiny soil animals survive harsh desert conditions, revealing hidden life and climate driven survival strategies underground.

University of Florida researchers have found key biological secrets behind the rapid spread of the short-spined thrips in the ...

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first glance. Its knobby flower stalks look more like a mushroom than a flowering ...

The seemingly innocuous alligator weed, or Alternanthera philoxeroides, poses a real problem, especially to rice farmers.

Learning how pronghorn survived the climate changes that ended the ice ages anddrove so many other large mammals to ...

More than 30 years ago, a group of scientists planted 4,200 seeds of the rare Pitcher’s thistle in the sandy dunes of the ...