Japanese spurge, Pachysandra terminalis, is a low-growing plant that is native to Japan and China. Over recent years, ...

The plant's characteristics — such as the terminal fruit (tf), axile seeds (sd) and plumose stigma (st) — are only found today in the Macaranga-Mallotus clade of the spurge family. Credit must ...

Combining two festive plants, it is possibly the Museum's most festive specimen. Poinsettia, Euphorbia pulcherrima, is also associated with ancient traditions, but not European ones. Instead, this ...

Along with the poinsettia, the manchineel belongs to the Euphorbiaceae or spurge family. Botanist Carl Linnaeus ... used that name for a different toxic plant that crazed horses.

THE issue of the fourth volume of “The Cactaceæ” brings this sumptuous monograph of the family to a conclusion. Previous volumes have been discussed in NATURE, vol. 107, p. 580, and vol.

Bacteria that live in soil and help roots fix nitrogen can boost certain plants' capacity to reproduce, according to an article published in the American Journal of Botany describing a study of ...

The many thousands of plant species and their numerous chemical ... The sap of the tulip (family Liliaceae) contains the well-characterized allergen tulipalin A. The individual tulip bulbs contain ...

Dermatitis. 2009;20(2):63-78. Other plants known for their spines include Serenoa repens (family Arecaceae), a North American plant commonly known as saw palmetto (Figure 6). This palm gets its ...

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It is the chloroplasts that contain the green pigment chlorophyll which absorbs light. The plant uses this glucose to grow as well as make other useful substances, such as cellulose found in the ...