Liriope, commonly known as monkey grass, is a versatile and resilient herbaceous plant with attractive foliage and striking purple-mauve flower spikes. When thinking about planting ideas for your ...

A houseplant enthusiast shared the incredible transformation of her spider plant, which she claims doubled in size within just two weeks Claire, a confessed houseplant enthusiast and host of the ...

Some have bright and colourful flowers, whilst others have leaves that turn red in autumn and fall off. No matter what the shape and size, all plants need the following things: ...

Plant cells use vacuoles to adjust their size and turgor pressure. Vacuoles usually account for changes in cell size when the cytoplasmic volume stays constant. Some vacuoles have specialized ...

The leaves of a banana plant, for instance, are about a million times bigger than the leaves of heather. The conventional wisdom is that leaf size is limited by the balance between how much water ...

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Spongy mesophyll close spongy mesophyllThe plant tissue in a leaf which has loosely packed cells and air spaces between them to allow gas exchange. tissue is packed loosely for efficient gas exchange.

This database presents a compilation of indicators on household size and membership composition around the world, estimated using both tabulated data and household roster micro-data from censuses ...

They were able to eat plants that other animals might struggle to digest. They probably ate conifer tree leaves and twigs and possibly even cones. These larger dinosaurs also lost less energy as heat ...

If you’re in the market for a new car, it’s important to understand what engine size means and how it affects a car’s performance and economy. Engine size, also referred to as ‘engine ...

Senior Editor: Jun Lyu, PhD, Springer Nature, China. Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied ...