PLANTS

Not sure if your avocado is ripe? Learn easy ways to check, tricks to speed up ripening, and the best ways to store it without ruining the taste.

The little pinprick spots on apples, pears, and potatoes are called lenticels, and they’re very important.

This color-changing blue butterfly pea flower mocktail is floral, fresh, and totally booze-free.

Researchers have created a sensor that monitors plant stress, which could one day be a game-changer for anyone with a black thumb.

From Chesapeake, Virginia, to Anchorage, Alaska, these cities offer plenty of parkland.

The woolly devil—a recently identified plant species—has researchers intrigued because it belongs to a brand new genus.

Discover how Bionic and the Wires are turning fungi into electronic musicians.

Catch the blooming of Sydney‘s corpse flower without being exposed to its infamous odor.

There’s a surprising connection between the capital of the Philippines and mailing important documents.

The little gourd can shoot its seeds nearly 40 feet via "ballistic dispersal”—but until now, the mechanism behind the plant’s power and proliferation was poorly understood.

There are Christmas tree farms scattered throughout the United States. Here’s which states produce the most of the holiday-favorite evergreen.

From expecting Santa to fill socks with gifts to eating cake that looks like tree bark, some holiday traditions are downright odd. But we can explain!