MacCubbin gives Florida gardening advice about crape myrtles, summer vegetables, lemon trees, tomato plants, indoor palms and ...

Huanzhong Wang, professor of plant molecular biology at UConn, wants people to know that plants have stem cells too. Just like in the medical world, plant stem cells could support human growth and ...

You may have heard that “sedges have edges, and grasses are round,” a simplistic statement describing the stems of these plants. Indeed, sedge species commonly have their stems (which we call ...

Researchers from the University of Freiburg have identified the HAN molecule as an important regulator that controls plant growth in conjunction with WOX5. Understanding this mechanism is relevant ...

Both types of stems are normal for these plants. After the long, round, rod-like stems grow for a while, they stop. Eventually they send out the flattened leaf-like stems.

How to make plant stems grow straighter. To ameliorate this, you want to be sure that you are dividing your perennials once they are dormant—the season we’re heading into—which will result ...

This is its stem. And these are the leaves. Some plants, like deciduous trees, have lots of leaves in the summer but lose them in winter. Others like evergreen trees, keep their leaves all year round.

Night blooming cereus plants (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) produce two types of growth: flattened leaf-like stems and long, round stems. Both types of stems are normal for these plants.