Witness the explosive seed dispersal of orange jewelweed and the corpse flower's macabre pollination strategy. Plants are usually thought of as static and inert, but nature is full of surprises.

Dispersal is an ecological process that involves the movement of an individual or multiple individuals away from the population in which they were born to another location, or population, where ...

Scientists from the University of Manchester have uncovered the secrets behind one of nature’s quirkiest plants - the squirting cucumber. While most plants rely on external forces such as animals, ...

Seed squirting is this plant’s specialty, but why have scientists been so keen to understand this mechanism in detail? Well, this is because insights from this unique seed dispersal method could ...