Rare plants are no longer the secret obsession of eccentric collectors hidden away in greenhouses. Today, the fascination ...

A “breakthrough” discovery about the fern species Blechnum orientale could help to ease the rare earth element (REE) crisis and pave the way for a “green” extraction process for the metals. While the ...

Sooner or later, it is said, everything old is new again. But 65 million years old? Bromeliads, which shared the Earth in the Cretaceous Era with dinosaurs, and which have been a staple of indoor ...

Researchers are working to unravel the hidden biology of often-persnickety seeds as they age, sleep and awaken Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine Scientists are working to unravel the best ways to ...

It was 2006 and Ismail Ebrahim, a botanist with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), was worried. While surveying one of the last remaining patches of renosterveld shrubland in ...

Hidden in the wet, shady woods of northwest New Jersey blooms a remarkable and rare plant – Yellow Hammond’s Spring Beauty. Found nowhere else on Earth, it’s just one example of the many plants that ...

Ten million is a nice round number — all those lovely zeros! It seems like a huge number, too, but in some contexts it really isn’t. Consider the Native Plant Trust, the unusual Massachusetts ...

You can help survey rare plants around the state of Wisconsin. The DNR is looking for volunteers to conduct surveys. Training is available online and in-person. MADISON, Wis. - The Wisconsin ...

Canadian mining company Aclara Resources plans to invest about $10 million to establish a rare-earth elements separation pilot plant at the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center, according to the ...

Working with South African daisies, Colombian magnolias and Philippine coffee trees, botanists the world over are discovering the secrets to bringing extremely rare and threatened plants back from the ...