The Phytophactor

This was a very busy weekend, it being the day selected to celebrate the annual making of the fish soup.  The ingredients for the e...

It always sounds a bit weird, but plant poaching does occur. The plants have to be sufficiently rare and desireable to be worth the effort. ...

Plants attract animals for various purposes, mostly dispersal of pollen and seeds, but no uses more nefarious than to supplement their nutri...

The intertubes have made this a much smaller world, and a long-time reader figured out that we were vacationing only about 10 miles apart.  ...

People have a certain funny fondness for carnivorous plants: pitcher plants, venus fly traps, sundews (maybe my favorite), Audrey II, bladde...

A reader asks: " Hi, I'm trying to set up two terrariums. They both will consist of carnivorous plants. I am considering Venus fly ...

If a plant is green, why be carnivorous? And if a plant if carnivorous, why be green? This was a central question surrounding the phenomeno...