The Great Vine of Hampton Court Palace
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2021
The Great Vine of Hampton Court Palace, on the River Thames in London, is the largest and the oldest vine in the world, having being planted...
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Gympie-Gympie: The Stinging Plant Which Can Inflict Pain For Months
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 24, 2021
Gympie-Gympie sounds adorable, but if you pay any attention to its scientific name Dendrocnide moroides , you would know its to be avoided. ...
King’s Holly: The 43,600 Year Old Plant
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 7, 2021
Lomatia tasmanica, commonly known as King's lomatia or King’s Holly, is an unusual plant. It bears flowers, yet produces neither fruit n...
Graft Chimera
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 4, 2020
On a small traffic island on Rodney Road, in Backwell, in the English county of North Somerset, stands a horticultural curiosity—a cherry tr...
The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary
Kaushik Patowary
May 6, 2020
When cotton first came to Europe from Central Asia during the Middle ages, people were fascinated by the fluffy, fibrous balls that resemb...
Glass Flowers And Sea Creatures: Leopold And Rudolf Blaschka’s Ultra Realistic Glass Models
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 7, 2020
A glass flower at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. It is nearly impossible to preserve a dead specimen in a pristine manner. Larg...
Sargasso Sea And Sargassum
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 23, 2019
The Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, near the Caribbean, is unlike any other sea in this planet. The boundaries of the sea are defi...
Vivipary or Why My Tomatoes Are Mutating?
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 17, 2019
Sometimes a seed will start developing and germinate while they are still inside their parent, the fruit. The seed first breaks through the ...
Why Victorian People Loved Posing Next to Aspidistra Plants
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 26, 2019
Potted plants have been a part of households for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans all kept houseplants in thei...
The Cactus That Crawls Across The Desert
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 12, 2019
The narrow peninsula of Baja California Sur, sticking into the central Pacific off Mexico’s west coast, is home to a unique species of cactu...
The Humongous Fungus
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 7, 2017
Beneath the soil in the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon, the United States, lurks a very large fungus that has been slowly weaving...
The Orange Rocks of Bay of Fires
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 1, 2016
The Bay of Fires, on the northeastern coast of Tasmania in Australia, is a large bay that extends for about 30 km from Binalong Bay in the s...
Quiver Tree Forest, Namibia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 7, 2016
The Quiver Tree Forest is located about 14 km north-east of the town of Keetmanshoop, on the road to the small village of Koës, in southern ...
Welwitschia Mirablilis: An Extraordinary Plant
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 17, 2016
This tangled mess of tattered and withered leaves has been called one of the ugliest plants in the world. While it certainly isn’t pretty, i...
Butcher’s Broom: Can Fruits Grow on Leaves?
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 16, 2016
Butcher’s Broom, or Ruscus aculeatus , is a low-growing perennial shrub with tough, erect, stems and very rigid leaves that terminate in a s...
Pholisma Sonorae: A Strange Looking Flowering Plant
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2016
Pholisma sonorae, commonly known as sand food, is one of the most bizarre wildflowers of North America. Growing out of sand dunes, the flowe...
Warm Blooded Plants
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 20, 2015
Between late February and May, in woodlands and wetlands throughout eastern Canada and the northeast United States, you’ll find a low growin...
The Mysterious Phenomenon of Bamboo Flowering
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2015
Bamboos are the fastest-growing plants on Earth. A typical bamboo grows as much as 10 centimeter in a single day. Certain species grow up to...
Crested Saguaro Cactus
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 24, 2015
The giant saguaro cactus is a universal symbol of the American west. These plants are native to only a small region of southern Arizona, the...
Watermelon Snow
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2015
In the high alpine region, at altitudes of 10,000 to 12,000 feet, sometimes patches of pink or red appear on snow. The phenomenon is commonl...
