Category: Native Plants
-
Carnivorous Plants Evolve For Bigger Meals
…the advantage of being able to catch and digest larger insects may have driven the evolution of the snap traps' many specializations, including sensitive trigger hairs on the inside surface of each leaf and the ability to respond quickly to a potential meal — a Venus flytrap can snap a leaf shut in a fraction of a second.
-
Making Hard Choices
No one's certain how the meadows formed, and the encroachment is a natural succession… But the Forest Service believes the meadows have both scenic and botanic value, and the only way to keep them open is to beat back the advancing trees.
-
Secrets Of Maples’ Flight Revealed
A heavy body and lone, stubby wing seem unlikely features for an object trying to fly — but they help the seeds of maple trees travel thousands of meters from a parent tree.
-
Benefits of Invasive Plants
According to the research, the existence of invasive plants in invaded sites can increase visits from insects to the majority of native plants. In this way the ‘floral market’ hypothesis in which only the invasive flowers are seen to benefit and the native flowers are no longer visited by insects is contradicted.
-
Neglected African Fruits To The Rescue
Africa's own fruits are a largely untapped resource that could combat malnutrition and boost environmental stability and rural development in Africa.
-
A Plant Needs Its Mother
…Plants grown in the same setting as their maternal plant performed almost 3½ times better than those raised in a different environment — indicating that maternal plants give cues to their offspring that help them adapt to their environmental conditions.
-
Invasive Plants Have An Edge
We’ve seen this capability in a number of invasive plants that have come from Eurasia, such as garlic mustard… The roots exude a toxin that kills native plants.
-
Walk If You Want But Plants Prefer to Fly
Celebrated in Buddhist temples and cultivated for its wood and cottony fibers, the kapok tree now is upsetting an idea that biologists have clung to for decades: the notion that African and South American rainforests are similar because the continents were connected 96 million years ago.
-
New Bamboo Species Discovered In U.S. — Now There Are Three
But we still dont understand exactly how long it has been since our bamboos separated from their Asiatic cousins. And we dont know how we ended up with three species in North America and 500 in East Asia.
-
Natural Succession Cannot Be Ignored
Lavender and cypress grown together and inoculated with mycorrhizal fungi under glass showed significantly higher growth than when they were cultivated and developed separately.