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 ...

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It may be time for fertilizer. “Plants get their food from photosynthesis, but they need some other micronutrients and macronutrients that are critical in creating enzymes, regulating water ...

Share on Pinterest choi dongsu/Getty Images When you hear about the medicinal plant “mugwort,” you may think of a potion ingredient from a “Harry Potter” novel. Mugwort is a weed-like ...

Only six years old at the time, I was at first put off by these garish plants. Such strange and vibrant flowers seemed out of place among the respectable beans, peppers, spinach, and other ...

It is an edible plant sometimes called pennywort with a somewhat bitter taste that some describe as the flavor of cucumber peels. If you want to give it a try, make sure you really have dollarweed ...

Oct. 10, 2024 — Biologists have curated the red milkweed beetle's genome and its arsenal of genes related to plant-feeding and other biological traits. They sequenced and assembled the entire ...

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 ...

John Gerard, The Herball, or General historie of plants. 1636, London. John Nelson is a retired botanist from the herbarium at the University of South Carolina. As a public service, the herbarium ...

Squash family plants often have fungal diseases ... It can tease out long roots of things such as goutweed. Once Jack Frost visits, you can cut back any annuals to the ground.