Why Are Anthurium Plants Popular? The exotic-looking heart-shaped “blooms” that make anthurium irresistible as houseplants are, in fact, spathes, or modified leaves surrounding the spadix, a stem ...

Growers often train branches to grow into desired shapes by wrapping them first with protective raffia, then with bonsai wire ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.