Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew together with international partners present their annual pick of the top 10 plants and fungi described as new to science in 2023. From threatened plants ...

Why are there more plant species in some places than in others? Why is diversity highest in the tropics? What is the connection between biodiversity and environmental conditions? To help answer these ...

Five botanical gardens in the United States dating to the early 1800s were high diversity horticultural microcosms representing nearly every continent, yet had few plants in common, according to Penn ...

What makes the discovery particularly striking is the plant’s apparent rarity. During the survey, the researchers located ...

This is because altered environmental conditions such as soil nutrients, pH and microbiota may not be suitable for old-growth grassland plant species. But other plant species that can rapidly acquire ...

Researchers have proposed that some wild plant species possess certain attributes which make them more suitable for human cultivation than others. Researchers at the University of Southampton have ...