Vanilla flavoring is widely used in food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. The primary source, Vanilla planifolia, however, is ...

While the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park are best known for rare and endangered animals such as giant pandas, koalas and ...

Often growing in rocky ground with acidic soil in the wild, this species doesn’t go summer-dormant the way the popular ...

The internet overwhelmed the gardener with the plant's history and many traditional uses in everyday life.

It turns out there is one plant that slugs cannot resist, which keeps them coming back, but with a few simple steps, you can ...

The vanilla species grown for its flavoring is finicky. Genes from its wild relatives could help make it hardier — but not if those cousins go extinct.

About $1,000 in plants were stolen from Wild & Whimsy Living, a plant and gift shop in Gastonia. Here is how the owner got ...

BERTRAM, Iowa (KCRG) - An expert with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources says he’s seeing an increase in the poisonous ...

It may seem unusual to think of chimpanzees as doctors, but they more closely resemble human healers than you may expect.

Maine’s only native lupine species, the sundial lupine ( Lupinus perennis ), once supported native pollinators such as the ...

At California’s Hedgerow Farms, specialists produce seeds to revegetate burned areas, reestablish wetlands, and transform ...

To spread knowledge about native plants, Woodke assembles planters with selections of species, mixing native edibles and ...