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Regenerated Pleistocene Age plant. David Gilichinsky/Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil, Russian Academy of Scien...

Wilted tree leaves in a Hawaiian forest during the extreme drought of 2010-11, which was the worst in at least 11 years and was federally de...

The Latest Weapon In The Fight Against Terrorism: How Scientists Have Developed Plants That Can Detect Bombs -- The Daily Mail They provide ...

Photo: Plants such as artemisia sweet wormwood provide valuable drugs - in this case, for malaria From The BBC: One-fifth of the world'...

A new analysis of the land plant family tree suggests that flowering plants may have lived much earlier than previously thought. (Credit: Wi...

Four-leaf clovers are a rare variation on the usual three-leafed kind caused by a genetic mutation. Credit: stock.xchng. From Live Science: ...

One week old seed of the thale cress with embryo. (Credit: Martin Bayer / Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology) From Science Daily...

A 'Middlemist's red' camellia, thought to be one of only two examples of the variety in the world, at the Chiswick House Gardens...

By boosting the number of pores in leaves, scientists hope to one day absorb more CO2 from the atmosphere. Credit: iStockphoto From Cosmos/A...

Petunias have sticky hairs that trap insects. Credit: Stockxpert From Live Science: Petunias and potatoes may actually be carnivorous plants...

Tomatoes are now known to absorb nutrients from insects they have trapped. PAUL RICHARD / AFP GETTY From The Independent: Botanists at Kew d...

Colorful tulips and other spring flowers in the Keukenhof Gardens, the Netherlands. How did flowering plants come to dominate plant life on ...

Photo: Identifying a plant's DNA "barcode" will help tell is if it is being illegally traded From The BBC: Hundreds of expert...

Harsh Bais, University of Delaware assistant professor of plant and soil sciences, and doctoral student Meredith Bierdrzycki with Arabidopsi...

A nest of the paper wasps used in the study (Polybia aequatorialis), taken in the field near Monteverde, Costa Rica. Colonies of several tho...

New research helps explain why pruning encourages plants to thrive. (Credit: iStockphoto/Matthew Scherf) From Science Daily: Scientists hav...

Giant Pitcher Plant: Nepenthes attenboroughii From Popular Mechanics: Over millions of years, plants have developed some crafty ways to fend...

RARE PLANT Amborella trichopoda, a small shrub found only on the island of New Caledonia in the South Pacific, represents the oldest living ...

Electrical engineers Babak Parviz and Brian Otis and undergraduate student Carlton Himes (right to left) demonstrate a circuit that runs ent...