A recent video by Creative Explained claims that soaking banana peels in water creates a natural fertilizer that can speed up plant growth. But does this trick really work? Let’s dig into the science ...

The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a tree makes in a few thick branches versus many thin ones. Trees have evolved ...

Carolina jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens) will soon be covered with sweet-scented, vivid yellow flowers — showy against a ...

School of Basic Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China Euodiae Fructus (EF) is the dried and nearly ripe fruit of Euodia rutaecarpa, first recorded in Shen Nong’s ...

By Abhishyant Kidangoor How can dried plant specimens protect a rainforest? In myriad ways. Kept in collections known as herbariums, they store critical data on the physical characteristics, or ...

But it wasn’t just his formal education that fueled his love for botany. He says he believes that anyone can learn to identify plants, regardless of academic background. This belief drove him to ...

Plants are critical to our very existence on the planet. Not only do plants supply us with the oxygen atmosphere we need to survive but they also regulate the planet's water cycle, impact global ...

Following this, she began her Ph.D. in botany at the University of Georgia. There she studied under Kelly Dawe, a CSU alumnus who earned his bachelor’s from the department of horticulture and ...