One of the mystery plants for this week was a series of trees with large roots on the ground and around buildings. There was a lot of interest in the plants, with quite a few guesses. While there were ...

While we are increasingly understanding the many cooperative relationships that can exist between plants, in the jungle, one lifestyle remains quite mysterious: that of strangler trees that kill their ...

Strangler fig in Tangkoko Sulawesi. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2010. Strangler figs starts life as a tiny seed in the canopy. The roots grow down to the forest floor where they take root and begin to ...

Q Can you identify this plant for me? It has oval, pointed leaves and milky sap when the leaves are broken off. The plant has been growing in a pot for many years but I do not know what it is. — Sal ...

Some ficus species are strangler figs The seeds are eaten by birds and pass through the digestive tract undamaged If they are excreted on the branch of a tree in the feces of the birds and remain ...

The young people in bright yellow hard hats and wielding shovels weren't there to cut ribbons or take part in a groundbreaking for a new retail center. The students from Palm Beach Day Academy, Palm ...

One of the mystery plants for this week was a series of trees with large roots on the ground and around buildings. There was a lot of interest in the plants, with quite a few guesses. While there were ...