These essential tips will help you successfully grow bananas as a houseplant. Justin Hancock, a horticulturist from Costa ...

Who wouldn't want luck on their side? Also known as "hens and chicks," echeveria succulents are native desert plants that come in a variety of colors. They stay relatively small and are well-suited to ...

Namwa bananas in Hawaii. The banana plant, which falls under the genus Musa, is not a tree but an enormous herb. It was first domesticated in Papua New Guinea around 7,000 years ago.Credit ...

The dwarf planet Ceres hosts a frozen ocean that is almost pure water ice at its surface and becomes ‘dirtier’ with depth, modelling suggests 1. The work reconciles conflicting evidence ...

News broke late last week that a fungal disease that kills Cavendish banana plants has been detected in Latin America for the first time. A strain of the Fusarium fungus, which causes so-called ...

Banana plants were showing wilted yellow leaves and ... can see what they like and start creating demand. For example, Dwarf Red, that tastes a little like raspberries, Lady Fingers, that are ...

Mistletoe, a group of plants in the order Santalales, are found around the world. Only some species of mistletoe are parasitic. The traditional parasitic mistletoe we think of is Viscum album. Most ...

Sow sweetpeas now in a cold frame or outdoors protected from mice and slugs, and you will have big, strong plants and early ...

The brightest star in the nighttime sky, Sirius, or the Dog Star, greatly outshines its white dwarf companion, Sirius B. At 8.6 light-years away, Sirius B is the nearest known white dwarf star to ...

Plants help people and animals to live. Plants provide food for people and animals to eat. They also make oxygen. All people and animals need oxygen to breathe. Plants are a very important part of ...