Goth Rabbits spread Vampire Plants
Rabbits tend to nibble on vegetation rather than dry fruits, but the black Amami rabbits of Japan seem to be eating the fruits and spreading the seeds of an unusual plant.
Plant Science from Cell Biology to Ecosystems
Rabbits tend to nibble on vegetation rather than dry fruits, but the black Amami rabbits of Japan seem to be eating the fruits and spreading the seeds of an unusual plant.
The fungus Botrytis cinerea can infect many plants, but how can it get past so many different defences? Does it have a variety of tools or one highly effective tool?
A bee can approach a flower from any direction, but markings on the flower help guide bees in the most effective way, like a natural air traffic control.
Scaldweed, Cuscuta grovonii, can prevent an invasive plant from using soil microbes to help invade territory – and the parasite can even become more vicious by using those same microbes against its invasive host.
The Titan arum produces a smell like rotting flesh. Now botanists have analysed the chemicals and found that the smell changes over the two days that the plant flowers.
If you wonder how cool cool is, it’s at least -196 ℃ (-320 ℉).
Biologists have talked about bringing back extinct species like the dodo, but now botanists have drawn up a list of extinct plants that might be able to return to the wild.
The long days of summer are stretching into winter, with LED street lights replacing the retreating sun.
Hikori Sato explains why a living forest isn’t just a collection of trees.
April Windle presents The Wonderful World of Lichens: Introduction to Saving Devon’s Treescapes
It’s not your imagination, some plants are prepared for your hoe when you try to eradicate them from your garden.
The best botanist on YouTube gives a guided tour of the Chihuahua Desert.
We’ll be aiming to expand the range of what we can share.
When plants in the Namib desert suffer from water stress, strange things happen.