Balcony gardening is a good way to incorporate nature in a concrete area by infusing beauty, colour, and fragrance to balconies. While most people cultivate usual balcony garden plants such as basil ...

The plants at Takata Nursery — a small greenhouse on the roof of founder Taryne Messer’s apartment building in Ridgewood — have a homespun, almost wise presence to them. That’s the distinct character ...

UBC Okanagan researchers have uncovered how plants create mitraphylline, a rare natural compound linked to anti-cancer effects. By identifying two key enzymes that shape and twist molecules into their ...

Working with South African daisies, Colombian magnolias and Philippine coffee trees, botanists the world over are discovering the secrets to bringing extremely rare and threatened plants back from the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: For more than three decades, scientists have explored ways to leverage certain metal-producing powers of hyperaccumulators, a family of more than 700 ...

Botanists in California are celebrating the rediscovery of a rare plant species, the caper-fruited tropidocarpum, a member of the mustard family that had not been seen in its native habitat for nearly ...

Hidden in the wet, shady woods of northwest New Jersey blooms a remarkable and rare plant – Yellow Hammond’s Spring Beauty. Found nowhere else on Earth, it’s just one example of the many plants that ...

The sale of an Anthurium luxurians broke Palmstreet’s August $10,000 record, highlighting the rise of rare plants as high-value collectibles. A houseplant sold for $26,000 on the Palmstreet app in ...

On a chilly October afternoon, a line formed outside an unassuming industrial building in Exeter. The scene had all the elements of a fall festival: live music, carnival games, a food truck. But plush ...

Lynas LYC6.36%increase; green up pointing triangle Rare Earths will build a new heavy rare-earth separation facility in Malaysia to meet demand from buyers looking to source the critical minerals from ...