Sci-fi plants might include truly imaginative plants created by the minds of fiction writers. They can also include plants that are all too real. Alien-looking flowers, plants that consume insects, ...

Nature is full of surprises, and nowhere is that more evident than in the plant kingdom. Beyond the familiar roses, ferns, and trees, there are plants that seem like they ve stepped out of a fantasy ...

Scientists have discovered a unique fossil that does not match any known species of flowering plants, an advance that sheds more light on the planet’s ancient diversity. Researchers first spotted the ...

Why it's incredible: Kilimanjaro hosts huge, endemic plants called giant groundsels. On the middle-altitude slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro grows a strange plant not found anywhere else on Earth. The ...

You might expect plants to just have regular shapes like leaves and flowers, but some take on forms that make them look like creatures you’d find in a zoo or on a farm. Imagine walking through a ...

In 2019, researcher and nature guide Mohamad Alias Shakri spotted an unusual plant in a forest in the Malaysian state of Terengganu. The plant grew in proximity to a well-known hiking trail, but it ...

Q: These (strange looking white plants) started coming up under a big white pine in my yard in West Pittsfield and I have never seen them before. They were odd and almost transparent as the stems were ...

The plant Hydnora africana is a parasite that smells foul...and that’s not even the weirdest thing about it. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle Companies. Major funding for ...

A potted pickle plant looks like an exploded bucket of fishing worms: There are stems growing in every direction. Pickle plant (Senecio stapeliiformis) is an impressively strange, South African ...

On the middle-altitude slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro grows a strange plant not found anywhere else on Earth. The giant groundsel, a plant that looks like a pineapple crossed with a saguaro cactus, ...