Today’s episode of “Matt About Town” explores the Smithsonian Gardens Botany Research Greenhouse, filled with rare plants ...

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When you eat a salad for lunch, you’re digging into a giant pile of plant organs. That’s right—plants are made up of organs, only theirs follow a totally different set of rules from our own. In this ...

Hawaii is home to some of the most rare and stunning plants in the world. They may be uncommon and wild, but there are lookalikes you can grow at home.

Glandular trichomes on the leaf tip of the sundew plant (Drosera filiformis) resemble dewdrops. In some lineages of plants, hairs do not provide protection. They function as a tool to gather essential ...

A new species of succulent with mutant flowers, hidden for decades and key to the island's biodiversity, has been discovered ...