More than 500 native plants in San Diego County are held in a Native Seed Bank at the zoo. Those seeds are dried down to a ...

By Abhishyant Kidangoor How can dried plant specimens protect a rainforest? In myriad ways. Kept in collections known as herbariums, they store critical data on the physical characteristics, or ...

Those listed above will tolerate and do fine in dry shade. But there’s a big difference between an established plant doing well in dry shade and a newly planted specimen being dropped in a dusty hole ...

When a new plant specimen makes its way to an herbarium, it can take a long time to just figure out what it is, said Jordan Teisher, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden herbarium.

Digitally cataloguing the more than 300 million plant specimens preserved in museums worldwide could yield crucial insights into how to preserve biodiversity amid climate change, a study by McGill ...

Ruellia tubiflora, a tropical plant collected from Venezuela in 2001, preserved in the collection of Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History. Field Museum , CC BY-ND The digital divide ...

Pegg developed a method that eliminates the need for the time-intensive plant specimen staining process by tapping into the natural autofluorescence of tissues in species across the plant tree of life ...

Raj Singh administers a genetic test to a diseased patient, hoping to confirm the cause of death. He starts by carefully getting the sample before exposing it to the test strip, letting it lay under ...

Scientists say amid climate change and biodiversity loss, the world’s herbaria could hold the keys to overcoming the crises in their folders of dried plant specimens. But their future is in ...

Plant notching is simply putting a small cut in the trunk of the plant to encourage the growth of branches. ... forcing plants to branch without taking any height off the specimen,” says Heeks.

Spruce up your garden or patio this summer with an eye-catching and exotic centrepiece with this umbrella bamboo that's ...

The plant known as sea spurge has already taken over large swathes of the Australian coast has been discovered at ...