Not all seeds are as straightforward as you might think! Some plants have very unique ways to disperse their seeds. Join host ...
The black-bulb yam excels at mimicry, producing small clones of itself that look like the dark, shiny berries of seed-growing ...
A rare yam species, Dioscorea melanophyma, spreads its clones by fooling birds with fake berries, helping it survive without seeds.
If you received a package of mysterious seed packets in the last six years, you should be concerned. However, they should be ...
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A plant named Virectaria stellata has genetic traits foreign to its family, challenging the classic rules of plant ...
For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos sat at the fringes ...