“That’s big time,” says botanist Kenneth Wood of the Hawaii-based nonprofit National Tropical Botanical Garden ... corners seeking spots where rare plant species linger.

You can have elephant ear plants delivered from Amazon straight to your door for ease. Exotic looking orchids flower for ...

The botanists, who are from Malaysia and Australia, discovered this rare tropical plant in May 2023, after it had originally been photographed in the wild in 2004. Additional photographs were ...

A third of tropical African plants are on the path to extinction ... and another third of species are likely rare, potentially becoming threatened in the near future. This is mainly due to ...

Tropical plants were under-represented in the inventory of species. Meanwhile, primitive plants such as mosses were fewer in number compared with exotic specimens such as orchids and lilies.

A rare corpse flower, Amorphophallus Titanum, famed for its size and distinctive smell, has bloomed in a private garden in ...

All that changed when Cheek and his Guinean colleagues found a patch of the extremely rare snow-white flowers ... as it is for other parasitic tropical plants such as the famous stinking corpse ...