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Ancient trees form bloodlines that bolster forests for thousands of years
Ancient trees, some close to 1,000 years old, may have a big impact on the forests where they grow.
Do indoor plants purify air?
REFERENCE House plants have become incredibly popular in recent years, but do indoor plants purify air? And to what extent?
Girthy 'penis plant' blooms for the first time, sparking excitement at Dutch garden
It's the size of a human and smells of rotting flesh.
Corpse Flower: Facts about the smelly plant
Reference The corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) also known as titan arum smells of rotting flesh and death when it blooms approximately every seven to nine years.
Firefighters race to save the world’s largest tree as wildfires rage
California firefighters have wrapped the bases of the world's largest trees in fire-resistant aluminum blankets to protect them from a wildfire that is raging nearby.
Rare 'zombie fingers' parasitic fungus is hanging on (barely) in Australia
Scientists recently found that a fungus resembling zombies' fingers is more widespread in Australia than anyone suspected.
$1.2 million worth of rare, stolen cactuses confiscated and returned to Chile
Officials have returned stolen cactuses to Chile, after recovering the rare plants during two raids in Italy in 2020.
Flowers use the smell of death to lure and imprison coffin flies
This is the first time that a flower has been found to mimic the scent of dead insects, according to a new study.
