Sex in the garden is more straightforward for the birds and the bees than it’s for the plants. Reproductive processes vary among flowering plants; for many, there is more than one option. When ...

Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

New Zealand has 2,200 native flowering plants and 85% of them grow nowhere else, including some spectacular displays that ...

There are plants that are neither green nor sexually reproductive, but precisely because of that they teach us a lot about ...

Balanophora lost photosynthesis long ago but kept tiny plastids that run key chemistry and shows how forest parasites adapt ...

The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction ...

Some plants lack both green pigments and sexual reproduction, yet these unusual traits reveal important insights into what defines plant life. A new ...