The plants are sometimes present in the thousands, and they can produce a brilliant floral display in the fall.

For some 37,000 years, the soft, furry body of a three-week-old saber-toothed 'kitten' lay cradled by Arctic permafrost, its ...

Contrary to popular belief that the Ilonggos’ version of Sinigang uses Batwan, an endemic tomato-sized fruit that looks like ...

Dried cells—it’s what’s for dinner. At least that’s what a new crop of biotech startups, armed with carbon-guzzling bacteria and plenty of capital, are hoping to convince us. Their claims sound too ...

In this article, you'll discover the proper scientific classification for various types of beans. You'll learn how botanists ...

Researchers from the Russian Academy of Sciences have uncovered the Siberian Simba - a perfectly preserved saber-toothed ...

The foliage of the plant is somewhat unusual for a member of the bean family. Most herbaceous members of the family have their leaf blades divided pinnately (along either side of the midrib) into ...

The genus Abrus consists of around 17 species distributed across Africa, Madagascar, India and Indo-China. Among them, the jequirity bean (Abrus precatorius L.) is probably the best and widest known ...

Some well-known methods of seed dispersal involved development of edible fruits (examples include prickly pear fruits and mesquite beans ... pungent odor. The genus name Proboscidea refers ...

is a specialist on the genus Inga. Whilst discussing this blog with him, he told me that he was supervising Inga trials in Amazonian Peru in the early 90’s, they had a competition on the local radio ...