Foraging for wild, edible plants can add a unique set of ingredients to your kitchen. But, you need to know how use them.

The answer is free plant identifier apps. These apps are like having a botanist in your pocket, to tell you about wild and cultivated plants with just a photo. Here are the 5 free plant identifier ...

It is capable of recognizing over 20,000 plant species in the world. You can use the PlantNet app to identify flowering plants, trees, grasses, conifers, ferns, vines, wild salads, and even cacti.

HAVING lain deep in the vaults of the National Herbarium of NSW unidentified for more than 40 years, an aged specimen found ...

Plant domestication is the process whereby wild plants have been evolved into ... occurred during domestication and enables identification of many putative deleterious variants, providing a ...

If anything, they taste like water despite having a dry texture. Though false strawberries aren't poisonous like some other harmless plant lookalikes, it's wise to know what you've encountered before ...

Back in 2016, one of us (Silviu Petrovan) was asked to identify a live frog found in a shipment of roses in Sheffield, England. It certainly wasn't any species found in Europe: Silviu thought he had ...

Wild plants may hold the key to building resilient crops for a world that is increasingly impacted by climate change. As global temperatures rise and weather patterns shift, the search for hardy, ...

Feb. 11, 2025 — A recent study by two biological science researchers found that a pathogen for bird pink eye remained viable on bird feeders in winter months much longer than in summer months ...

The federal government hopes former coal towns will help the nuclear industry grow, by taking on the decades-long challenge ...

Wildlife questions answered by Maine Audubon Staff Naturalist Doug Hitchcox.