The discovery indicates a greater diversity in the fossil record of flowering plants than was previously acknowledged. In ...

Researchers compared the fossil to over 400 flowering plant families and found no match, suggesting it belongs to an unknown ...

For 14 years, scientists have been growing a tree akin to the Judean balsam — the source of the balm of Gilead — but with no ...

Filling your shade garden with healthy hostas doesn't have to break the bank. You can grow your own from seed using this ...

Fossilized plant remains discovered near a Utah ghost town have stumped scientists, who are unable to link them to any modern ...

What if I told you that some plants will keep coming back every season without replanting? It’s a gardener’s dream come true!

Between 1924 and 2023, there was only one obvious botanical baby name that stood out in the SSA’s list of the most popular baby names over the past 100 years. That name was Olivia, which translates to ...

After all, were it not for the 19th-century monarch, we might not celebrate Christmas with a well-appointed fir tree. Though people across the globe had been decorating temples and domestic ...

Reality seeps into “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” in multiple ways, including ones that writer-director Mohammad Rasoulof couldn’t have imagined back when he shot this absorbing drama in secret.

Squirting cucumbers blast their seeds over distances hundreds of times their length, and now scientists know how the plants do it. A squirting cucumber in action is a remarkable sight, but if you ...

Home begins to feel like a prison of its own. “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” — the title refers to a tree in which the young shoots choke out the older trunk — is a slow burn, sometimes a ...