What do plants need to grow? Plants are a great addition to any home, whether indoors or outdoors, the benefits of adding some nature to your living space have been well documented. However, keeping ...

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California is what’s known as a biodiversity hotspot because of the large amount of endemic natural life found here, especially plants. Endemic means these plants can only be found here and nowhere ...

What do plant tissues look like under a microscope and why are they so complex! Plants—they’re just like us! Well, not exactly, but they do have skin and hair like us…even if they also have creepy ...

Plants—they’re just like us! Well, not exactly, but they do have skin and hair like us…even if they also have creepy little alien mouths. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’re getting up close ...

Many of us got our first taste of wintry subfreezing temperatures this week. Given it was in the 70s recently, this illustrates our typical cool-season roller coaster — stretches of relatively mild ...

Did you know that acacia trees in Africa cry out when giraffes eat their leaves? (Downing et al., 2020). Did you know that chopping off the limb of a tree can cause it to suffer terribly? Perhaps you ...