Also known as the Purple Shamrock, this dramatic plant has leaves that fold down like a bat’s wings at dusk. By day, the deep ...

Calathea Makoyana adds beauty to indoor spaces and is pet safe. Light, humidity, watering, and temperature are crucial for peacock plant care. Medium-light, high humidity, weekly watering, and keeping ...

As the days grow shorter and the nights stretch longer, there’s an unmistakable magic in the air… While tales of haunted ...

The Rose-painted Calathea or Calathea roseopicta medallion folds its leaves at night to reveal purple undersides. The Peacock ...

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

But first - what counts as a plant point? There’s six groups to choose from: fruit, veg, wholegrains (like brown rice, oats, barley and quinoa) , legumes (i.e. lentils, chickpeas and beans ...

No matter what color your thumb, you likely already know that all plants need water to reach their full potential—after all, that basic knowledge goes back to introductory middle-school science ...

Plants help people and animals to live. Plants provide food for people and animals to eat. They also make oxygen. All people and animals need oxygen to breathe. Plants are a very important part of ...

Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...

We’ve all been stumped for the name of a plant at times, whether shopping at a garden centre, visiting a garden or on holiday. Plant-id apps promise to identify plants from a picture taken on your ...