Highway Ice Plant (Carpobrotus edulis) This low-growing succulent shrub, a member of the Fig-Marigold plant family (Aizoaceae), is native to South Africa. It was introduced as an ornamental plant and ...

Living stone plants, also called lithops plants, are succulents that nearly anyone can grow with a little patience. Named for ...

No matter what color your thumb, you likely already know that all plants need water to reach their full potential—after all, that basic knowledge goes back to introductory middle-school science ...

Oct. 3, 2024 — Pockets of microbes have been found living within a sealed fracture in 2-billion-year-old rock. The rock was excavated from the Bushveld Igneous Complex in South Africa, an area ...

Oct. 3, 2024 — According to a new study, colonies of ants began farming fungi when an asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago. This asteroid impact caused a global mass extinction but also ...

Every bite an herbivore takes comes at the expense of a plant. Are plants passive victims or do they actively resist these attacks? Some plants avoid herbivory by decreasing their apparency or ...

It is the chloroplasts that contain the green pigment chlorophyll which absorbs light. The plant uses this glucose to grow as well as make other useful substances, such as cellulose found in the ...

CHILD: There are some over here. NAOMI: A plant is a living thing that grows and makes new plants. There are many different types of plants around us, including plants that flower, grasses ...

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Only six years old at the time, I was at first put off by these garish plants. Such strange and vibrant flowers seemed out of place among the respectable beans, peppers, spinach, and other ...