In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

The time a spider plant mom remains tethered to her spiderette can be influenced by the daughter plant's environment.

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

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The study reveals how Balanophora plants function despite abandoning photosynthesis and, in some species, sexual reproduction. Their plastid genomes shrank dramatically in a shared ancestor, yet the ...

Vegetative reproduction from stems, roots and leaves is common to all plants and results in an identical plant from which the cutting came; it’s a clone. As gardeners, we propagate cuttings for many ...

Angiosperms display an enormous diversity of forms, functions and strategies when it comes to reproduction. This multiplicity has been translated into several terminological concepts and contexts, ...

Plant reproduction is highly complex and variable across the kingdom. The emergence of sexual reproduction has contributed to increase plant genetic diversity and enabled the colonisation of new ...

*Plants That Have No Flowers or Seeds* (1967) is an 11-minute educational film produced by Coronet. It explores examples of non-flowering, seedless plants, such as ferns, mosses, and fungi, explaining ...

You might think flowers don’t have much choice about who they mate with, given they are rooted to the ground and can’t move. But when scientists from Nagoya, Japan used powerful microscopes to study ...

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, meets with Pope Francis during a private audience on Aug. 8, 2024. (Credit: Pontifical Academy for Life.) Listen ROME – This ...