Gymnosperm means “naked seed” and comes from the same Greek root as gymnastics, which means to exercise naked. This group of plants is so named because the seeds are not enclosed inside an ovary, ...

ARGUABLY the world’s weirdest plant, Welwitschia mirabilis is a tangled mass of shredded, fraying leaves in the Namib desert. For a thousand years, perhaps more, it grows just two long leaves, which ...

The angiosperms are the most recently derived plant group, originating some 160 million years ago and becoming widespread around 120 million years ago. Angiosperm means “enclosed seed,” referring to ...

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Seed dispersal by animals has sometimes been considered one of the factors helping to explain angiosperm diversification. Three predictions related to this hypothesis are examined here, namely, (1) ...

Researchers undertaking an evolutionary survey of the microscopic structure of wood from some of the world’s most iconic trees and shrubs have discovered an entirely new type of wood. This discovery ...