but it is used by many xerophytes, including pineapples. By giving crassulas similar conditions to those they enjoy in the wild – a sunny windowsill and mimimal moisture – they grow into superb ...

Plant genetics deals with heredity in plants, specifically mechanisms of hereditary transmission and variation of inherited characteristics. Plant genetics differs from animal genetics in a number ...

By Jancee Dunn I was on the phone with a friend the other day, and because I can’t sit still, I started to dust the leaves on my sprawling bird of paradise plant. This is nice, I thought ...

Is it more sustainable to grow your own? In Meru, a town in eastern Kenya, a lush, leafy plant sways over the landscape. Benjamin Mutembei, a Meru resident, is growing the Plectranthus barbatus ...

Though these are the features of a xerophyte, experimental evidences to show the stomatal distribution in relation to xeromorphy exhibited by an aquatic plant are meagre. In an attempt to ...