Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

12 species have vanished. “That’s big time,” says botanist Kenneth Wood of the Hawaii-based nonprofit National Tropical Botanical Garden. Working alongside Hawaii’s Plant Extinction ...

This species was discovered and named by John Kress, an emeritus curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and one of the authors of the new study. Heliconia plants are ...

A recent study highlights a troubling reality for Heliconia, a genus of tropical ... in the journal Plants, People, Planet, ...