A recent flower event strongly recommends a vocabulary update. Botanists assign the corpse flower to the genus Amorphophallus, a group at or just over 200 species classified in Araceae, the Arum ...

A substantial proportion New York’s forests regenerated following agricultural abandonment around the turn of the 20th century. Many myrmecochorous (ant-dispersed) plant species are lacking in these ...

Call them nature’s own luxury high-rise condo rentals. Squamellaria plants, from the same family as coffee and quinine, are fat aerial tubers perched high in tropical trees. In Fiji, one of the ...