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Eucalyptus viminalis cygnetensis

Articles Tree Physiology

Within-species responses to water deficit vary more with traits than provenance

For one flower, bad hair days are the best days

Attack of the Dream Stealers!

We need Oddballs not Lunatics

Male fungus gnat (genus Mycomya) showing copulatory behaviour with the labellum of Pterostylis sanguinea. Photograph by R. D. Phillips.

Botanists uncover the secrets of sexual attraction

Pink Perfection Camellia

AmJBot explains Auxin to the perplexed

Clarkia flowers

Why would a plant make its pollination less efficient?

Drosera capensis

Snacking helps Drosera’s appetite

Diagram of forces on aquatic and terrestrial plants

Do changes in water levels in wetlands give plants a backbone?

Can intensification be sustainable?

Boswellia Trees

The hidden cost of frankincense

Ginkgo biloba

It’s fruit Jim, but not as we know it

Cost and Benefit models by Savage and Rudgers

One plus one does not always make two, when plants add up costs and benefits

An unwanted caterpillar

Sweet nectar gives ferns a bitter taste

The Dry Aral Sea

The ‘natural’ solution might not be best when your wildlife isn’t natural