It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants feed upon. What seems to be an inert plant, a part of the ecological ...

Some plants display animal-like behaviors. Sundew hunts insects. Skunk cabbage generates heat. Witchweed steals nutrients.

Sometimes, they serve as decoys, drawing the pests to themselves ... So, if Achilles had a cucumber garden today, he'd probably plant yarrows beside it. That's because it attracts helpful insects, ...

Parasitic weeds are plants that obtain some or all of their nutrients and water from a host plant, to which they attach at either stem or root level. A major problem in other parts of the world ...

Researchers have discovered the mechanism that drives the parasitic vine Cuscuta campestris to insert organs into plants after making contact with the hosts. The parasitic vine Cuscuta campestris ...

Instead of making food from sunlight, some of these plants have become parasitic and primarily suck nutrients out of the fungi in their roots. Whether these orchids change their feeding method ...

In our region there are a few fully parasitic plants, totally dependent on other ... perhaps the parasite can sometimes draw more resources, and maybe the host may be able to increase its ...

Botanist Mat Yunoh Siti-Munirah has been cataloging the biodiversity of these parasitic plants in Malaysia. In 2020, one of her colleagues encountered an unusual fairy lantern in Tengku Hassanal ...

A picture of a little-known and mysterious plant that resembles a tiny emerald-green owl with an angry face has won a global photography competition While it may look like a bird, the picture is ...

A stunning photo of the peculiar parasitic plant species, Thismia thaithongiana, wins gold in the Plants and Fungus category of the World Nature Photography Awards. When you purchase through links ...

At first glance, Orobanche ramosa looks like an interesting blossoming plant, one that could add a unique flair to flower arrangements. But it’s a parasitic weed that attaches to roots ...

Parasitic plants actually make up around 1% of all flowering plants ... Mistletoe typically grows on the branches of a host tree, using haustoria to penetrate the host’s bark to draw water and ...