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Painting with plants?
These artists dabble in living medium.
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The world’s most beautiful greenhouses are underwater, and growing strawberries
The air of the greenhouse stands at 79 degrees with humidity hovering around 83 percent. That's a pretty good environment for a typical plant. But this is no ordinary greenhouse: It's 20 feet under water, anchored to the floor of the sea just off the coast of Noli, Italy. This is Nemo's Garden, an experimental project in its fourth year, operated as part of the family-run Ocean Reef Group.
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The world's oldest living things
Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world's oldest continuously living organisms -- from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago's coast to an "underground forest" in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.
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Scientists have discovered that living near trees is good for your health
A very large study in Toronto shows that an additional 11 trees along a neighborhood street improves health in a way comparable to "being 1.4 years younger."
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Coreopsis Illico[OC]
This is a picture I took of a beautiful yellow flower. If I have misidentified it please feel free to let me know.
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The Plant That Can Kill and Cure
Nightshades have a deadly reputation but they have been used for thousands of years for medicinal purposes.
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Romanesco Broccoli: The Fascinating Vegetable Shaped Like Fibonnacci's Golden Ratio
Vegetables and math? Every child's nightmare.
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What Is Beauty?
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Flowers
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Fragrant Orchids: 11 Varieties You’ve Got to Try | OrchidsMadeEasy.com
Discover 11 fragrant orchids that you should give a try in this article by Ryan Levesque, author of Orchids Made Easy.
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First evidence of farming in Mideast 23,000 years ago: Evidence of earliest small-scale agricultural cultivation
Until now, researchers believed farming was 'invented' some 12,000 years ago in an area that was home to some of the earliest known human civilizations. A new discovery offers the first evidence that trial plant cultivation began far earlier -- some 23,000 years ago.
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Leonardo Co's Digital Flora: the Legacy of a Passionate Plant Expert
After a leading botanist was killed by the Philippine Army, his work lives on in the science of citizens
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This Crazy Tree Grows 40 Kinds of Fruit
Sam Van Aken, an artist and professor at Syracuse University, uses "chip grafting" to create trees that each bear 40 different varieties of stone fruits, or fruits with pits...
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Red baneberry in Oregon's Coast Range
Just wanted to share the shot I quickly took of this vibrant baneberry plant while stomping around Oregon's Coast Range. It's a common berry, but as its name implies, it is hiding sinister toxicity underneath.
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"Weeds"
I'm choosing to see this as strong evidence for the power of natural beauty.
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How Earthworms Digest Dead Leaves Despite the Plant Toxins
To protect themselves from being eaten by herbivores, plants produce chemical defenses that mess with their gut enzymes. Below the surface, an earthworm’s diet centers on dead plant matter, and scientists have finally figured out how these important decomposers, or detritivores, do it. Their guts produce a unique compound that counters the effects of plant defenses, enabling the digestion of otherwise toxic material. The findings were published in Nature Communications this week.
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Hunting the blue Yeti of Bhutan
Once thought to be a Himalayan myth, Bhutan’s national flower is a once-in-a-lifetime find.
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Earth’s most poisonous plants
Some common species rank as the deadliest plants in the world.
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Was this the world's first flower?
An aquatic plant that bloomed underwater as long as 130 million years ago may have been among Earth's first flowering plants, say scientists.
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Plants That Keep Themselves Warm
Sometimes, plants do unexpected things. Like control their own body temperature.
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