Plants & Fungi

When Trees Attack: Meet the Amazon's Living Grenade In the plant kingdom's roster of oddities, the Sandbox tree (Hura crepitans) reads...

In the damp, shadowy recesses of forests worldwide, a bizarre organism moves about—solving mazes, finding efficient routes, and...

The Forest's Most Delicious Prankster Picture this: you're hiking through the woods when you spot what looks like someone stuffed a...

In the scorching Namib Desert, where rainfall is measured in millimeters and most plants wouldn't last a week, lives a organism so...

On a remote island in the Indian Ocean grows a tree so rare that for decades scientists believed it was extinct. With ghostly white...

In the beauty contest of the mushroom world, Chaga would come dead last. Looking like a chunk of charcoal that got into a fight with a...

The Plant That Broke All the Rules and Kept Growing In the scorching Namib Desert, where rain is a rumor and most plants have the...

The Mushroom That Launched a Thousand Myths Picture the most iconic mushroom in the world, and you're almost certainly imagining a fly...

The Sweetest Name for the Deadliest Garden Villain Don't let the charming name fool you. Honey fungus might sound like something you'd...

In the humid tropics of the Philippines, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea grows a tree that looks like it escaped from a Dr. Seuss book....

When Mother Nature Invented the Original Whoopee Cushion Picture this: you're walking through the woods, minding your own business, when...

In the rainforests of the Philippines, there hangs a flower so impossibly colored that first-time viewers often assume it's been...

In the grand spectacle of nature, we often find ourselves captivated by charismatic megafauna or towering trees. But beneath our feet and...

In a world where Venus flytraps get all the press and pitcher plants hog the spotlight, there exists a carnivorous plant so deceptively...

In the botanical world's version of a horror movie, there exists a plant that lures unsuspecting victims with sweet promises, intoxicates...

Deep in the rainforests of Southeast Asia lurks a botanical monster that defies everything we think we know about flowers. It has no...

Picture this: you're trekking through the misty mountains of northern Thailand, and suddenly you spot what appears to be a tiny purple...

In the plant kingdom's diverse portfolio of survival strategies, one group stands out for its particularly dramatic approach to obtaining...

Fig trees, often overlooked in discussions of remarkable plants, are among nature's most fascinating and ecologically significant...

The Serpent of the Bog: Meet Darlingtonia californica Picture this: you're hiking through the misty mountains of Northern California when...