Birdsboro, Pennsylvania -- Robert Muchler and his wife Elsie opened up Mutschler's Rare Plants 45 years ago. The business started out as a flower shop but quickly blossomed into the sale of rare and ...

It was 2006 and Ismail Ebrahim, a botanist with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), was worried. While surveying one of the last remaining patches of renosterveld shrubland in ...

Ten million is a nice round number — all those lovely zeros! It seems like a huge number, too, but in some contexts it really isn’t. Consider the Native Plant Trust, the unusual Massachusetts ...

Hidden in the wet, shady woods of northwest New Jersey blooms a remarkable and rare plant – Yellow Hammond’s Spring Beauty. Found nowhere else on Earth, it’s just one example of the many plants that ...

Working with South African daisies, Colombian magnolias and Philippine coffee trees, botanists the world over are discovering the secrets to bringing extremely rare and threatened plants back from the ...