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A new and very special plant species has just been discovered in Malaysia. In the forests of Terengganu, a team of ...
As detailed in a study published Monday in the journal PhytoKeys, the plant is a newly described species in the peculiar ...
From a flower which resembles a brain to a three-metre-tall plant that smells of rotting flesh, sometimes the natural world is more horrifying than any fiction. Discover this creepy collection of ...
But what makes one plant more likely to survive than another? We’ve uncovered some strange and surprising facts about some of our hardiest plants. Scientists in Germany think they’ve ...
Rafflesia (Rafflesia keithii), Borneo. This plant has no stem or leaves, instead it is a parasite on a vine. By feeding on its host, rafflesia is able to produce the world's biggest flower ...
Over 70 years ago, Roald Dahl proposed that plants could scream in a fictional story called The Sound Machine. He suggested they could shriek — a high-pitched shriek undetectable to the human ear.