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 ...
The sprinkling of pretty blossoms was a terrible omen; her field was riddled with witchweed, a parasitic plant that attaches ...
The white stuff that engulfs these flies is a fungus called Entomophthora muscae — Entomophthora translates to “ destroyer of ...
The sprinkling of pretty blossoms was a terrible omen; her field was riddled with witchweed, a parasitic plant that attaches to the roots of crops like maize and sorghum, starving them of nutrients.
Lena Ortega of the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe in the southern tip of California said that in the proposed Kw’tsán National Monument, animals like bighorn sheep and desert tortoises live amongst ...
Sumatran rainforests have produced another plant known as the corpse flower, the giant padma, Rafflesia arnoldii. This ...
Catherine Wanjala's small maize farm in western Kenya was suffering. Her crops would stop growing at knee height and her ...
People are lining up at the Geelong Botanic Gardens to see and smell the giant corpse flower, a rare plant that stinks like a dead body.
Have you heard the gruesome tale of flesh-eating fungus known as Cordyceps? It’s a real-life story of ghosts, mummies and ...
Dokdo Island (Ulleung-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do) Dokdo Island consists of two rocky islets, Dongdo and Seodo, situated about 150 ...
Pathogenicity is the potential capacity of certain species of microbes to cause an infectious process. It is characterised by a complex of pathogenic properties in the microbe formed in the process of ...