Researchers discovered that living horsetails act like natural distillation towers, producing bizarre oxygen isotope ...

Deep in the Namib Desert, Africa's wildest wilderness, among the many interesting discoveries of the desert lives a remarkable survivor. Known in Afrikaans as "tweeblaarkanniedood" meaning, "two ...

Low nitrogen availability is the number one limitation to plant growth in most ecosystems. Farmers compensate by adding nitrogen-rich fertilizers to their crops, which is expensive and harmful to the ...

A place unique to Tucson held a sale over the weekend featuring unique plants. The Tucson Botanical Gardens, at 2150 N. Alvernon Way, attracted green-thumbed folks from all over the area interested in ...

"This unique book explores a fascinating world in which plants trick, kill, steal and kidnap--plants you could scarcely imagine even exist: carnivores that drug, drown and consume unsuspecting insect ...

One appears to be masquerading as a baseball. Others look more like rocks than living things. We're talking weird plants - and they're the stars of an upcoming Weird Plant Sale at the Tucson Botanical ...