But what makes one plant more likely to survive than another? We’ve uncovered some strange and surprising facts about some of our hardiest plants. Scientists in Germany think they’ve ...

Mistletoe, a group of plants in the order Santalales, are found around the world. Only some species of mistletoe are parasitic. The traditional parasitic mistletoe we think of is Viscum album. Most ...

From a flower which resembles a brain to a three-metre-tall plant that smells of rotting flesh, sometimes the natural world is more horrifying than any fiction. Discover this creepy collection of ...

"The syndicates saw this as an opportunity of making something viral… telling a wide as possible public: 'We have this super-strange ... over the world to ask about the origin of a plant ...

Pulling up, I had to laugh. I was searching for the house with a strange plant, and I knew I found the right place. Karen and Jim Whitmore’s plant in Valley Green Mobile Home Park has probably ...

Scientists have discovered a unique fossil that does not match any known species of flowering plants, an advance that ... they couldn’t match the fossils’ strange assortment of features ...

Such strange and vibrant flowers seemed out of ... and dragonflies. After flowering plants, the world became like an English garden, full of bright color and variety, visited by butterflies ...

But there’s much more to the carnivorous plant world. Exotic plant expert David Durie showed the Beechgrove team around his collection. “A carnivorous plant is essentially any plant which is ...