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Scientists declared they have found 600-million-year old fungi-algae symbiotic organism in marine fossils believed to be the ancestors of the earliest land-based lichens ever found, shedding light on the sea-to-land evolution of plant life. The scientists reports having discovered three...

Vegetation's Red Edge: A Possible Spectroscopic Biosignature of Extraterrestrial Plants Earth's deciduous plants have a sharp order-of-magnitude increase in leaf reflectance between approximately 700 and 750 nm wavelength. This strong reflectance of Earth's vegetation sugges...

The parasitic dodder plant doesn't have a nose, but it knows how to sniff out its prey. The dodder (Cuscuta) attacks such plants as tomatoes, carrots, onions, citrus trees, cranberries, alfalfa and even flowers, and is a problem for farm...

A new University of Colorado at Boulder study involving a "living fossil plant" that has survived on Earth for 130 million years suggests its novel reproductive structure may be a "missing link" between flowering plants and their ancestors. The Amborella plant, found in the rain forests of Ne...

Geologists in Gujarat are thrilled after a massive fossilised tree of Jurassic age was recently discovered at Dholavira -- an ancient metropolitan city of the Harrapan civilisation which is now an archaeological site in the Rann of Kutch. "It is an amazing find. The fossil-tree is at least...

A geologist from Washington University in St. Louis is developing new techniques to render a more coherent story of how primitive life arose and diverged on Earth — with implications for Mars. [img]http://epsc.wustl.edu/classwork/classwork_480/Homepages/Carrine%20Blank_files/ca...

To their surprise, the plants, which have a one-metre-wide, blood-red, rotten-flesh stinking flower, belong to a family of plants bearing tiny blooms. The Rafflesiaceae were tricky to place because of their unusual features, the team reports in the journal Science. The botanists used DNA a...

Botanists discover 'remarkable' night-flowering orchid A night-flowering orchid, the first of its kind known to science, has been described by a team of botanists. Experts say the "remarkable" species is the only orchid known to consistently flower at night, but why it has adopted th...

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Plants Fungi Fossil lichens (Preview)	Astronomy News	8	4929	Dec 9 19:21 2016 by Blobrana
Scientists declared they have found 600-million-year old fungi-algae symbiotic organism in marine fossils believed to be the ancestors of the earliest land-based lichens ever found, shedding light on the sea-to-land evolution of plant life. The scientists reports having discovered three...
Plants Vegetation's Red Edge: (Preview)	Astronomy News	4	3668	Apr 20 14:22 2011 by Blobrana
Vegetation's Red Edge: A Possible Spectroscopic Biosignature of Extraterrestrial Plants Earth's deciduous plants have a sharp order-of-magnitude increase in leaf reflectance between approximately 700 and 750 nm wavelength. This strong reflectance of Earth's vegetation sugges...
Plants Plants ( 1 2 3 4 5 ) (Preview)	Off Topic	48	14265	May 18 11:48 2017 by Blobrana
The parasitic dodder plant doesn't have a nose, but it knows how to sniff out its prey. The dodder (Cuscuta) attacks such plants as tomatoes, carrots, onions, citrus trees, cranberries, alfalfa and even flowers, and is a problem for farm...
Plants Amborella trichopodais ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	General news	11	6140	Aug 18 10:06 2015 by Blobrana
A new University of Colorado at Boulder study involving a "living fossil plant" that has survived on Earth for 130 million years suggests its novel reproductive structure may be a "missing link" between flowering plants and their ancestors. The Amborella plant, found in the rain forests of Ne...
Tree Plants Fossilised tree ( 1 2 3 4 ) (Preview)	Off Topic	32	12383	Feb 29 19:15 2012 by Blobrana
Geologists in Gujarat are thrilled after a massive fossilised tree of Jurassic age was recently discovered at Dholavira -- an ancient metropolitan city of the Harrapan civilisation which is now an archaeological site in the Rann of Kutch. "It is an amazing find. The fossil-tree is at least...
Life Plants Primitive life ( 1 2 3 4 5 ) (Preview)	Astronomy News	40	14857	May 2 13:52 2013 by Blobrana
A geologist from Washington University in St. Louis is developing new techniques to render a more coherent story of how primitive life arose and diverged on Earth — with implications for Mars. [img]http://epsc.wustl.edu/classwork/classwork_480/Homepages/Carrine%20Blank_files/ca...
Plants Rafflesiaceae (Preview)	Off Topic	0	903	Jan 11 20:20 2007 by Blobrana
To their surprise, the plants, which have a one-metre-wide, blood-red, rotten-flesh stinking flower, belong to a family of plants bearing tiny blooms. The Rafflesiaceae were tricky to place because of their unusual features, the team reports in the journal Science. The botanists used DNA a...
Plants Bulbophyllum nocturnum (Preview)	Trash	0	796	Nov 22 01:19 2011 by Blobrana
Botanists discover 'remarkable' night-flowering orchid A night-flowering orchid, the first of its kind known to science, has been described by a team of botanists. Experts say the "remarkable" species is the only orchid known to consistently flower at night, but why it has adopted th...