Charles Darwin was a lifelong fan of flowers, but...  ...how they evolved. There were fossils of flowering plants going back 66-100 million years, which didn’t h...  ...tists are turning to DNA analysis of contemporary plants to decode where they came from. They are also fin...  ...n the shadows of far more su...

Charles Darwin was fascinated with the Venus Flytr...  ...ated with the Venus Flytrap and other carnivorous plants . How did such a thing arise through natural selec...

Peter Cook and Becky Northey started making what they call Pooktre, the shaped plum trees into art and furniture. They started by making trees into a coffee table and a mirror frame. The chair above is one of the gre...

Pothos has thousands of followers and gives re...  ...ll, Twitter is all the rage these days, sure, but plants Twittering? Has this fad gone too far? Are you s...

Insanely beautiful art found in nature, the planet really does do it's best to impress us with its amazing artwork.Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932), a German artist and professor, captured these 'art forms in nature' and used...

Plants grow too slow to see most of the time - making th...  ...different speed.For those of you unfamiliar with plants (they're a lot like pets, only lower maintenance)...  ...er maintenance) these 12 (!) time-lapse videos of plants and flowers growing and blooming should adequ...

Some plants don't act like plants at all. Some trap prey, mimic animals, or smell b...  ...enthes lowii, which is related to insect-trapping plants , but prefers to attract birds with a tasty laxati...  ...d droppings! Read about this and four other weird *strong class="ma...

WebUrabanist has compiled a number of posts from their sister site, Webecoist. Together, the posts add up to over 100 super interesting flora and fauna species. I think my favorite is the 10 Strangest Animal Self-Def...