Plants

Ancient trees, some close to 1,000 years old, may have a big impact on the forests where they grow.

Researchers in China have uncovered the oldest example of a fossilized flower bud ever.

It's the size of a human and smells of rotting flesh.

Officials have returned stolen cactuses to Chile, after recovering the rare plants during two raids in Italy in 2020.

The blooming process of a moonflower cactus has been captured on video for the first time and was watched by over 400,000 people online.

Orchids are usually prized for their loveliness, but a newly described species is no beauty.

Streaming video from NYC offers a stink-free view of the notoriously malodorous corpse plant in bloom.

Carnivorous plants began evolving about 70 million years ago, when an ancestor duplicated its entire genome, allowing some genes to be repurposed for hunting.

You can talk to your plants — but they won't care.

Three new plant species have disappeared from Earth every year since 1900, an alarming new analysis found.

China managed to grow some tiny cotton sprouts on the moon, but it killed them. Here's how.

A new study of how plants grew in the environments of the dinosaur age offers some new clues about their populations.

A strange plant that needs no sunlight and sucks on underground fungi for nutrients has turned up in Borneo, Malaysia, 151 years after the last time a scientist found it.

Ancient rocks from a remote Canada island contain the oldest algae ever discovered.

Trees generally snap, or at least lose a few branches, when faced with hurricane-strength winds. Not palm trees. These staples of the tropics typically bend during gusty weather.

Vegetables are good for your health, but now there's a whole new way that one veggie could help your heart: Spinach leaves can be used as a scaffold for beating human heart cells, a new study finds.

Scientists have discovered what may be the world’s oldest plant-like fossils, estimated to be 1.6 billion years old.