Sumatran rainforests have produced another plant known as the corpse flower, the giant padma, Rafflesia arnoldii. This ...

Caption This time-lapse video shows how the parasitic plant dodder attacks tomatoes. But beyond stealing nutrients from the host plants, a Virginia Tech researcher has discovered that the two ...

In our region there are a few fully parasitic plants, totally dependent on other plants for carbon, water, and nutrients. Some of them are not common, but we sometimes see them along the trails.

Catherine Wanjala's small maize farm in western Kenya was suffering. Her crops would stop growing at knee height and her ...

Learn about the Corpse Flower, Pitcher Plant, Venus Fly Trap, African Baobab Tree and Gympie Gympie. The Corpse Flower native to the rainforest of Sumatra is a massive parasitic plant that produces ...

About 1% of flowering plants (around 4,000 species) are parasitic. Read on to discover 10 interesting examples of parasitic plants, where they can be found and how they steal nutrients from other ...

This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to toxic-free, nature-based gardening, on how you ...

A parasitic fungus takes over the brains of flies and controls them for its own sinister ends. Here’s the science behind the ...

Revealing a sensitive germination receptor in parasitic plants brings researchers closer to eradicating a major source of African crop damage and food insecurity. From summer to autumn in sub ...

Monitoring your plants and regularly checking for signs can allow you ... One species that grows well with Cuphea is common ...

The sprinkling of pretty blossoms was a terrible omen; her field was riddled with witchweed, a parasitic plant that attaches ...

Sumatran rainforests have produced another plant known as the corpse flower, the giant padma, Rafflesia arnoldii. This parasitic plant has no leaves or stems. It spends most of its life as long ...