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The Falklands

How I rediscovered a near-extinct plant no one has seen for decades

Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft illustration

THE POWER OF STEM

The secret feminist history of illustrating plant life

Bananas

Inside the quest to save the banana from extinction

REAPPEARING FLORA

Botanists rediscover a rare Hawaiian flower thought to be extinct—thanks to a drone

A girl looks for her mother at the international bonsai exhibition in Ljubljana

There’s a good reason bonsai growers think of trees as their children

Bee on flower.

HE SAID, BEE SAID

Flowers are talking to animals—and humans are just starting to listen

ASSISTED LIVING

Plants botch photosynthesis 20% of the time. Fixing that could change agriculture

Plants and trees are a lot like you and me.

BLOSSOMING KNOWLEDGE

Plants have a memory mechanism that could save them from climate change

Plants can feel you touching them—and sometimes they don’t like it

SNAP CRACKLE POP

Algae makes a noise when it photosynthesizes, and it sounds like a ping