The sweet molecules plants make during photosynthesis double as sophisticated thermometers, revealing a hidden layer of plant environmental sensing.

Why would you make leaves that are all cost and no benefit? A ghost plant puzzle is solved.

What might appear to be one network of plants and pollinators may in fact be many.

A story popular in New Scientist at the moment questions what we know of the deep past, and it has a plant twist.

Researchers at Colorado State University have found the genetic basis of attraction - if you’re a carnivorous plant seeking prey.

Amazon gold mining leaves forests unable to heal for centuries, because miners carelessly turn the landscape into a giant sieve.

How did a fake Scottish tea plantation fool the finest hotels?

You might expect the instructions a cell receives to make a flower to be precise, but the response to those instructions isn’t.

New research reveals how plant leaf shapes affect your mood. Small, complex leaves calm while large leaves energise our spaces.

Rare fritillaries stage remarkable comeback, revealing their resilient dormancy strategy against extreme flooding conditions.

Human-introduced trees are silently reshaping US forests, eliminating rare native species.

Botanists discover that plants seeking to sexually attract a pollinator may be hiding their stocks of potent perfumes in overlooked alkenes.