Plants & Fungi

Deep in the rainforests of Central and South America, a giant reaches toward the sky, its massive buttressed trunk supporting a crown...

Imagine a tree so absurdly proportioned that legend says the gods planted it upside-down as a joke. A tree so old it could have provided...

In the most unforgiving corners of our planet—sun-scorched deserts, windswept mountain ridges, and parched badlands—exists a group of...

The Plant That Turned the Tables In the brutal world of nature, plants usually play the victim—eaten by everything from tiny aphids to...

In the plant kingdom's version of a horror movie, strangler figs would be the villain that wins. These botanical assassins don't just...

Picture this: You're walking through a forest after a rainstorm, and there, growing on a dead log, is what appears to be someone's...

Imagine walking through an African savanna and looking up to see what appears to be a deli that exploded in a tree. Massive...

A Flower That Stopped Conquistadors in Their Tracks Picture this: Spanish conquistadors trudging through South American jungles in the...

The Tree That Walks Imagine a tree that can walk. Not in the fantastical way of Tolkien's Ents, but through a slow, methodical conquest...

The Plants That Broke Up with Earth In a world where every plant seems obsessed with putting down roots, air plants decided to ghost the...

In the dynamic boundary where land meets sea, there exists an extraordinary ecosystem that defies conventional botanical understanding....

The Tree That Isn't Actually a Tree Picture this: you're driving through the Mojave Desert, and suddenly the landscape transforms into...

Picture this: a plant so cunning it builds elaborate death traps, so unique it's the only member of its entire family, and so adorable it...

Picture this: You're walking through a pine forest just as the first rays of dawn break through the canopy. Tiny droplets of morning dew...