A houseplant enthusiast shared the incredible transformation of her spider plant, which she claims doubled in size within just two weeks Claire, a confessed houseplant enthusiast and host of the ...

In the final part of her series, Clare Foster talks to Jane Brockbank about a bold, foliage-based scheme she has devised for ...

Simply trim the plant back to your desired shape and size throughout the growing season ... Thanks to its frond-shaped leaves ...

Plant cells use vacuoles to adjust their size and turgor pressure. Vacuoles usually account for changes in cell size when the cytoplasmic volume stays constant. Some vacuoles have specialized ...

The leaves of a banana plant, for instance, are about a million times bigger than the leaves of heather. The conventional wisdom is that leaf size is limited by the balance between how much water ...

It forms a solid support. The phloem is towards the centre, outside the xylem. Any green part of a plant above ground, where it is exposed to light, can photosynthesise. But a plant’s leaves are ...

Some have bright and colourful flowers, whilst others have leaves that turn red in autumn and fall off. No matter what the shape and size, all plants need the following things: ...

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A cross between an ivy and a fatsia (a climber and a shrub), this architectural plant is a stylish way to clad a north-facing wall with green ... Give this large climber plenty of space, or cut it ...

We’ve all been stumped for the name of a plant at times, whether shopping at a garden centre, visiting a garden or on holiday. Plant-id apps promise to identify plants from a picture taken on your ...

Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...