Dozens of plants on a small Japanese island may have shrunk themselves to avoid hungry deer – suggesting that persistent pruning by herbivores could drive the evolution of dwarf plants.

Arborists classify trees into three sized-based categories: small trees that grow to be less than 25 feet tall (including dwarf varieties), medium-size trees that can reach up to 40 feet tall ...

A good choice are dwarf varieties of Hinoki cypress Chamaecyparis obtusa including ... For the miniature rock garden, a dwarf variety of Japanese red cedar Cryptomeria japonica ‘Vilmoriniana’ provides ...

The brightest star in the nighttime sky, Sirius, or the Dog Star, greatly outshines its white dwarf companion, Sirius B. At 8.6 light-years away, Sirius B is the nearest known white dwarf star to ...

a group of plants in the order Santalales, are found around the world. Only some species of mistletoe are parasitic. The traditional parasitic mistletoe we think of is Viscum album. Most mistletoe ...

The authors propose a unified account of these varieties of Darwinism. A new paper published in The Quarterly Review of Biology examines the question of what Darwinism is and how its nonscientific ...

This means the positioning of furniture and even indoor plants matter when creating a flow of harmony that matches the natural order of the world. And according to feng shui experts, there are ...

Dwarf tomatoes are compact plants, growing from 2 to 4½ feet tall, and produce fruits ranging from 1 to 18 ounces in size. Micro tomatoes are even smaller, typically staying under 1 foot tall and ...

In 1975 Diane Ott Whealy was bequeathed the seedlings of two heirloom plant varieties that her great ... the outbreak in the early 1970s of yellow dwarf virus, which threatened to wipe out the ...

What's happening? Prompted by food shortages after World War Two, scientists developed new high-yield varieties of crops and breeds of livestock, alongside synthetic fertilisers, pesticides and ...