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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Let’s take a look at ten of the most dangerous plants in the world. Deadly Nightshade is found in Europe, Asia, and North Africa. This plant is very toxic. It contains tropane alkaloids like ...

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 ...

Painting by Mary Parrish, National Museum of Natural History via University of New Hampshire When land plants were still the relatively new kids on the evolutionary block and the world’s tallest ...