Hostas (also known as plantain lilies) are popular plants known for their big, leafy green or variegated foliage. They’re ...

And did you know a plantain plant can produce the starchy fruit for up to 100 years. You can eat it at different stages of ripeness: when it’s green (almost ripe,) when it is yellow (ripe,) or ...

Hostas are extremely popular perennials in North America. Although not native here, they don’t become invasive in most ...

Asian cuisine, try these jammy plantains and black beans in charred poblano sauce for filling high-fiber tacos.

The plantains are often lumped in with dandelion and weeds similar to this species are all called "flat weeds". As with all these species, it tolerates low fertility conditions well. However, a weed ...

Broad-leaved plantain is a very common perennial weed found in many lawns and pastures, and often in waste places as well. It is typically found in "run-down" pastures which do not have much grass and ...

For Candice Brathwaite, plantain is special because of its taste and the “memories it evokes” but also for its connection to the Caribbean. “In some really deep way, I think that dish or ...

The butterfly's primary host plant is the endangered dwarf plantain, but larvae also may live on purple owl's clover or exerted Indian paintbrush. Primary Bay checkerspot habitat is native grassland ...

1NRC on DNA Fingerprinting, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources ... DNA profiles of 92 banana and plantain cultivars were generated with 12 amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) primer ...

FEEDING: Larvae feed upon the leaves of plantain, the host plant. Adults feed on plant nectar. THREATS: The Quino checkerspot is threatened by elimination, fragmentation, and degradation of habitat ...