Also known, as the Swiss Cheese plant, this 1970s foliage favorite swept back into interior style several years ago and has ...

Regions of similar climate and dominant plant types are called biomes. This chapter describes some of the major terrestrial biomes in the world; tropical forests, savannas, deserts, temperate ...

12 species have vanished. “That’s big time,” says botanist Kenneth Wood of the Hawaii-based nonprofit National Tropical Botanical Garden. Working alongside Hawaii’s Plant Extinction ...

A third of tropical African plants are on the path ... standing to lose more than 40% of their richness of plants. Species at risk include trees, shrubs, herbs and woody vines.

Tropical plants were under-represented in the inventory of species. Meanwhile, primitive plants such as mosses were fewer in number compared with exotic specimens such as orchids and lilies.