It stands to reason that all palms have palmate leaves, right? Wrong. About half of the 2,100 species have feathery (pinnate) leaves, including the familiar queen and date palms. A palmate leaf, on ...

Here's a trick question: When is a plant's main attraction neither the flowers nor the foliage? In the case of the genus Arisaema, the spathe is the cause of both curiosity and wonder. The members of ...

A normal tomato leaf is shown top left, while on the right is a cup-shaped leaf from a plant with PHAN switched off or turned down. (Neelima Sinha/UC Davis photos) A single gene, called PHANTASTICA ...

When you hear the word hibiscus you picture a flower — usually a large bloom. In early summer, desperate for flowering plants, the car headed for BloomingGrove Auction house. Though the eight matching ...

Danni asks: My schefflera bonsai doesn’t look good. The leaves are yellowing and some are dropping off. What’s wrong and what can I do about it? Most schefflera bonsai plants are created using the ...

A single gene, called PHANTASTICA (PHAN), controls whether a plant makes feathery leaves like a tomato or umbrella-like leaves like Oxalis. The same mechanism is shared by a wide group of flowering ...