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More Stories in Plants
- esportiva bet: Environment
How🥃 air pollution may make it harder for pollinators to find flowers
Certain air pollutants that build up at night can break down the same fragrance molecules that attract pollinators like hawk moths to primroses. - esportiva bet: Animals
Giant tortoise migration in the Galápag𝓰os may be stymied by invasive trees
An invasion of Spanish cedar trees on Santa Cruz Island may block the seasonal migration routes of the island's giant tortoise population. - esportiva bet: Plants
On hot summer days, this thistle is so♚mehow cool to the touch
In hot Spanish summers, the thistle Carlina corymbosa is somehow able to cool itse⛄lf su🦩bstantially below air temperature.
- esportiva bet: Plants
Ancieꦛnt trees’ gnarled, twisted shapes provide irreplaceable habitats
Traits that help trees live for hundreds of years also foster forest life, one reason why old growth forest conservation is crucial. - esportiva bet: Plants
esportiva bet: 💝 Here’s ꦚwhy blueberries are blue
Nanostructures in a blueberry’s waxy coating make it look blue, despite having dark red pigments — and no blue ones — in its skin, a new study reports. - esportiva bet: Plants
This weird fern is the first known plant that turns 🐠its dead leaves into new roots
Cyathea rojasiana tree ferns seem to thrive in Panama’s Quebrada Chorro forest by turning dead leaves into roots that seek out nutrient-rich soil. - esportiva bet: Paleontology
A rar🍸e 3-D tree fossil may be the earliest glimpse at a forest understory
The 350-million-year-old tree, which was wider than it was tall thanks to a mop-top crown of 3-meter-long leaves, would look at home in a Dr. Seuss book. - esportiva bet: Ecosystems
How an invasive ant🐠 changed a 𒆙lion’s dinner menu
An invasive ant is killing off ants that defend trees from elephants. With less cover, it’s harder for lions to hunt zebras, so they hunt buffalo instead. - esportiva bet: Plants
This first-of-🅺its-kind palm plant flowers and fruits entirely underground
Though rare, plants across 33 families are known for subterranean flowering or fruiting. This is the first example in a palm.
