Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants and 65 fungi. The ...

A new genus and species of flowering plants from the custard apple family, Annonaceae, has been discovered in the jungles of Gabon by French and Gabonese botanists. The extraordinary genus was named ...

Like humans who have similar traits to our relatives, so does the plant genus, Allium, part of the Amaryllidaceae family. The Allium genus is made up of edibles (onion, garlic, leeks, chives) and ...

Two Mystery Plants at once. These two species will serve nicely for a consideration of what we call a “genus.” The modern concept of the genus as a taxonomic category began coming into play among ...

A key for the identification of the immature stages of 24 of the 26 genera of Membracidae found in Missouri is presented. The genera Xantholobus Van Duzee and Helonica Ball were not available for ...

With this dangerously hot weather we are experiencing, and the drought we are all suffering from, there is one genus of plants out there that is reveling in our misery. Those plants are the sedums.