Plants

Wasps, cockroaches and crickets are pollinators too

What’s eating these endangered orchids?

New plant species discovered in museum is probably extinct

Freeloading orchid relies on mushrooms above and below ground

Closed marriage: an orchid that never blooms

Flower attracts insects by pretending to be a mushroom

Parasitic plants rely on unusual method to spread their seeds

New non-photosynthesizing plant species discovered on Ishigaki island, Japan

Evolution of the fungus that is devastating wheat crops

Mistaken identity of East Asian vine species resolved after 100 years

How plants prevent oxidative stress

Two new species of orchids discovered in Okinawa

Genes in albino orchids may hold clues to parasitic mechanism used by non-photosynthetic plants

Mechanism for photosynthesis already existed in primeval microbe

New species of parasitic plant discovered in Japan

The dark arts of parasitic passengers

Plant discovered that neither photosynthesizes nor blooms

How plants grow new lateral roots

Mechanism behind plant withering clarified

Details revealed for how plant creates anticancer compounds

Gene protects against toxic byproducts of photosynthesis, helping plants to "breathe"

New plant species discovered on Yakushima

Treetop leaves of tall trees store extra water