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How Do Trees Know When It's Spring?
A horticulturalist explains the science behind springtime's beautiful blooming.
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Organic Gardening 101: How to Start a Garden and Keep It Healthy
A gardening expert has a ton of tips about starting your own organic garden.
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Human-Shaped Species Of Mushroom Discovered In UK
It's amazing what is right under our noses without being noticed. A species of mushroom that can look remarkably like stick-figure humans has been discovered, and far from being in some sparsely inhabited jungle, they were found by a road in England.
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Plants Know When They Are Being Eaten
(and Freak Out)
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This Plant Feasts on More than 6,000 Insects an Hour
Dripping with nectar, the pitcher plant attracts thousands of hungry termites. But as soon as the bugs start eating, they begin to slip on the sugary liquid and tumble inside the plant.
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How a Beanstalk Grows
You don't often think of plants as having behavior, but this video clearly shows a beanstalk "looking" for support.
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This carnivorous plant is shaped to help bats find it, so bats can sleep and poop inside
Bats 'stick inside the pitchers like a cork on a bottle'
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When Plants Attack: A Time-Lapse
This "biolapse" condenses more than three months of footage into an eerie study of how carnivorous plants eat insects by filmmaker Chris Field
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Plants that are Poisonous to Cats
Keep your feline friend safe!
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Painting with plants?
These artists dabble in living medium.
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Carnivorous plants communicate with bats
A large, meat-eating pitcher plant in Borneo has evolved a unique way to communicate with bats that it hopes to attract.
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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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6,000-Year-Old Hollowed Out Tree is a Bar Inside
Nature is often the inspiration for architecture and design. We've even seen our fair share of fully functional tree houses, but in South Africa there is an entirely unique, hollowed out tree called Sunland Big Baobab that has actually been converted into a bar. According to the pub's website, the venue is the widest documented baobab (a type of tree normally found in the hot, dry savannas of sub-Saharan Africa) and carbon dated to be around 6,000 years old. The site goes on to explain, "When...
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Night-blooming cereus cacti [OC]
These bloomed outside my house last night - luckily I was up early enough to get some pictures before they closed up! Not stunning pictures but I always enjoy AZ cactus flowers :) The third picture is rotated the wrong way for some reason; it works fine on my computer but it's rotating back to landscape on here. Sorry about that.
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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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Ginkgo biloba: Survivor
How to survive an ice age, a mass extinction, and a meteor strike—and live to tell about it.
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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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Rotting Fungus Creates Beautiful, Glistening 'Hair Ice'
A century-long puzzle over how delicate strands of glistening ice burst through rotting tree branches, like heads of hair, is closer to being solved.
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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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