The majority of the threatened species do not grow in environmentally protected locations. Tropical plants in the genus ...

After 45 years of living in the cool mountain mists of Kaloko Mauka’s Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary, we have decided to move.

I paid a lot of attention to those words because I already had a big — make that a giant interest in growing these ...

In a new study published today in Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), together with global ...

Indoor pepper plants need warm ambient temperatures, so you may need to adjust your home's thermostat accordingly or use a ...

A stunning evergreen, flowering vine with thorny, branching stems, the bougainvillea is native to South America. Since it's a ...

Although it sounds like hyperbole, the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens really is a tropical oasis. There are lychee trees and mango, ...

A new analysis from researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History reveals that nearly half of the genus ...

Cloud forests are biodiversity hot spots and crucial water sources. But climate change and deforestation are shrinking their range, new data show.

A “very pretty” yet highly toxic popular backyard plant has Aussies on edge as it runs rampant on the country’s east coast. With its showy, colourful flowers that arch upwards, and shiny ...

Casey took Mexican heather, a shrub with colorful flowers also known as false heather, and vinca, a drought-tolerant tropical perennial, and planted them in her front yard. Both plants are good for ...