A new analysis reveals that nearly half of the genus Heliconia, a group of tropical plants popular for their bright, beak-shaped flowers, are threatened with extinction.

New research has found it will be economically unsustainable by 2080 for many areas across Latin America and the Caribbean to continue growing bananas for export, because of rising temperatures caused ...

Fruit salads will never be the same again - thanks to scientists who have developed bananas that don't go brown and mushy ...

The soft, yellow flesh of the edible varieties is the result of a mutation many thousands of years ago that rendered the fruits of these plants sterile. In fact, Cavendish – the banana variety ...

The sunflower is one of the nation’s best-loved flowers. Although most varieties have yellow blooms, you can grow sunflowers with rusty-red, green and even white flowers. Annual sunflowers are fast ...

It likes full to part sun and well-drained soil. Plant it in USDA Zones 4 through 9. A good choice for people living in the milder parts of the South, this small thin-leafed evergreen grows 2 to 3 ...

I wrote last time about a flowering shrub called pineapple guava, a plant that produces fruit that resemble neither pineapples nor guavas. Today I’ll talk to you about banana trees that produce ...

A woman got a "freaky" surprise when she found a "double banana" in her fruit bowl ... it's just how they grow." Selling the fruit in shops could be used to tackle food waste, she suggested.

Can you or your child hear sounds within the speech banana? A speech banana is a banana-shaped range on an audiogram that covers the frequencies and decibels that are needed to understand speech.

Plant ecology is a sub-discipline of ecology focussed on the distribution and abundance of plants, and their interactions with the biotic and abiotic environment. Crop rotation has been shown to ...

When the house across the street from Greg Pampling was raided by police earlier this month, allegations it was being used as a cannabis grow house came as a shock. ACT police allege they found a ...