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Do indoor plants purify air?
By Lawrie Jones published
REFERENCE House plants have become incredibly popular in recent years, but do indoor plants purify air? And to what extent?
Girthy 'penis plant' blooms for the first time, sparking excitement at Dutch garden
By Nicoletta Lanese published
It's the size of a human and smells of rotting flesh.
Corpse Flower: Facts about the smelly plant
By Alina Bradford, Daisy Dobrijevic published
Reference The corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) also known as titan arum smells of rotting flesh and death when it blooms approximately every seven to nine years.
Firefighters race to save the world’s largest tree as wildfires rage
By Yasemin Saplakoglu published
California firefighters have wrapped the bases of the world's largest trees in fire-resistant aluminum blankets to protect them from a wildfire that is raging nearby.
Rare 'zombie fingers' parasitic fungus is hanging on (barely) in Australia
By Mindy Weisberger published
Scientists recently found that a fungus resembling zombies' fingers is more widespread in Australia than anyone suspected.
$1.2 million worth of rare, stolen cactuses confiscated and returned to Chile
By Mindy Weisberger published
Officials have returned stolen cactuses to Chile, after recovering the rare plants during two raids in Italy in 2020.
Flowers use the smell of death to lure and imprison coffin flies
By Yasemin Saplakoglu published
This is the first time that a flower has been found to mimic the scent of dead insects, according to a new study.
1st time-lapse of rare moonflower blooming is stunning
By Harry Baker published
The blooming process of a moonflower cactus has been captured on video for the first time and was watched by over 400,000 people online.
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