Oak Street resident Michael Bowles has a most unusual plant. It's an exotic bat plant (Tacca Chantrieri) and was in full bloom this fall with two black, bat-shaped flowers. The flowers are complete ...

This tropical plant can be grown in moist, warm areas of the United States like Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and parts of California. Creating a hospitable microclimate may be necessary. Generally ...

Cosy relationship A bat and a carnivorous plant in Borneo enjoy an unusual mutually beneficial relationship, according to a new paper. The discovery, outlined in the latest Royal Society Biology ...

Gardening isn’t just about trimming hedges and planting petunias anymore. Somewhere between the buzzing of bees and the hum ...

A well-named plant that evokes a Halloween atmosphere from late autumn into summer is bat flower, also known as Dracula flower. Though just 2 feet tall, the species (Tacca chantrieri) packs plenty of ...

In a new study published this month in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, researchers with The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio have pinpointed the cancer-fighting ...

Just as some flowers use bright colors to attract insect pollinators, other plants may use sound to lure in nectar-eating bats. One rain-forest vine has a dish-shaped leaf located above a cluster of ...

Cosy relationship A bat and a carnivorous plant in Borneo enjoy an unusual mutually beneficial relationship, according to a new paper. The discovery, outlined in the latest Royal Society Biology ...

A bat and a carnivorous plant in Borneo enjoy an unusual, mutually beneficial relationship, according to a new paper. The bat roosts and relieves itself in the plant's prey-trapping pitchers, feeding ...