“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction ...

There are plants that are neither green nor sexually reproductive, but precisely because of that they teach us a lot about ...

There are plants that are neither green nor sexually reproductive, but precisely because of that they teach us a lot about what it means to be a ...

Some plants lack both green pigments and sexual reproduction, yet these unusual traits reveal important insights into what defines plant life. A new ...

Surely this ends well.

Balanophora species are parasitic plants that live underground and emerge above ground only during the flowering season — and some species even reproduce exclusively asexually. This collage shows ...

Cycad cones aren’t always hot. Instead, they follow daily cycles of heating and cooling: Pollen-laden male cones produce a big burst of heat in the late afternoon, and then ovulating female cones warm ...

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...

Presumed extinct for nearly a century, one of the world’s rarest insects was quietly clinging to life in a place no one ...