The Baobabs - Writer and photographer Ron Emmons wrote a piece on the “bizarre baobabs”, as he calls them, a tree native to the deserts of Australia, Africa and Madagascar. Sometimes called the “upside-down tree”, this tree has the distinct appearance of having roots in place of a canopy. To survive drought, the mammoth-sized […]

If leaves could talk - Plants that live on land have tiny pores on the surface of their leaves that allow for gas exchange, somewhat like little mouths. Appearing in the Feb. 1 issue of Nature is news of the identity of two genes responsible for development of these pores. The genes, creatively […]