Scientists have discovered a "perfect disordered hyperuniform" pattern in how plants arrange themselves across many dry ...

Differences in the factors influencing the performance of species are less likely to be correlated with one another if examined within superficially homogeneous vegetation than if obviously different ...

The spiral pattern of an Aloe polyphylla plant at the University of California Botanical Garden. Stan Shebs via Wikicommons under CC BY-SA 3.0 To the untrained eye, plants may appear to grow rather ...

The variegated zigzag plant (Euphorbia tithymaloides ‘Variegatus’) is a fun houseplant, easy to grow and enjoy. True to the name, this plant has medium-green stems with an unusual zigzag pattern. One- ...

A doctoral student has identified a long-overlooked pattern in how plants evolved their equivalent of lungs -- tiny pores on the surfaces of leaves called stomata. Using specialized imaging techniques ...

A unique hexagonal pattern has been discovered in a recently described plant-parasitic nematode worm. A new plant-parasitic nematode worm (Meloidoderita salina) was found in a tidal salt marsh at Mont ...

They look a little like crop circles and a little like artistic earthworks. Around the world, they have many names: in the Namib Desert of Africa, they’re called “fairy circles;” in Brazil they’re ...